Get 8 students a day and teach for 20 days you can RM16k. A lil higher than a normal MPO players.

performance:
1. regular gigs, usually at hotel or pub/bistro.
2. event and function gigs, usually high pay and mostly just 2~3 session of 45mins each.
3. concert touring for artists if you're good enough.

production:
1. session pianist, doing recording for albums etc.
2. being able to do arrangement, usually fully midi nowadays, rarely people still use pencil and paper. slow and lots of effort.
3. soundtrack composing which is somewhat closely related to arrangement.

education:
same as classical
mind you, contemporary music world is everybit as difficult as there're always intense competition (as in competing market) between colleagues. like classical world, you just have to be competitive and good.

phone to them or email to them. seems awkward, but that's how it works. not sure about rate, usually more than RM100 per night, and i think under it's RM200. not exactly a good pay for full time, but if you're hardworking you can do other things during day time to make it  more $$$$.

Hi guys,

Hi guys,

I am a middle age man at 42.

Being able to play piano was my childhood dream, unfortunately, i did not have that kind of luxury due to the financial constraint at that period of time.

I am now 42, everything is stable, and i proceed to fulfil my long due childhood dream.

Lately, i started to take "pop piano" lession at Yamaha music.

I believe, if i would like to progress fast, I must have a piano at home for practice.

There are many brands and type of piano in the market, i am not musician, it is kind of difficult to decide which one to get.

I really need advice from the music expert in this forum.

My question:

Q1 : Digital piano or acoustic piano? My teacher prefers digital piano as it is more fun?
Q2 : Which brand to get? Yamaha? Kawai? Casio?
Q3 : Estimated price? i am not familiar so must know some thing before walking into the shop (nanti kena ketuk).
Q4 : Where to buy?