World Music Culture

By Kevin Tuck

Music teachers are not the most wealthy people on the planet. Its unfortunate, but true that the person who teaches violin probably earns less than the person who delivers your mail or collects your garbage.

Why does that happen? Well music teachers are a very loyal, very careful bunch, and they do it for the love and enjoyment of a satisfying career - at least in part! Because they don't want to overstretch the amount of time that they can teach, and because they are always very generous when it comes to giving refunds or crediting lessons they always end up earning less than most other professionals.

This article doesn't intend to argue about the dollar amounts that teachers should be paid, but hopefully it can provide a few alternatives that might help them to earn a little more.

Lets start by thinking about a few simple things that you could do as a private music teacher to earn more dollars:

Look at packaging your lessons in a different way. Can students pay you on a monthly, rather than weekly basis? Can you offer specialized services at an increased rate? What about

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