ts, in your situation, you'll be having a hard time to compete. you might be able to survive, but most likely you ain't gonna sustain.

i'd ask you a simple question, how advanced do you expect your student to be? if you just want to teach beginner, means you're going to see the same face for only 2 years then off he/she go?

also, never underestimate the word of mouth. you'll be surprised.

This post has been edited by little ice: Feb 2 2009, 11:46 PM

yes, there's no problem with that. but you see, your students might want to learn more and might end up disappointed.

you still can teach, but make sure you tell your students in advance that you only teach beginners and won't teach theory.

but then, if i'm looking for teacher like you, i'd rather learn from friends or join bands.

just my rm0.02.

musicians are miserable. maybe only 0.01% can become rich.

if you want to make good money you need a good marketing.

if you want to sustain, you need to be competent.

but then, music scene today are dominated by marketing. you need about 10% of skill, and 90% of marketing (read: communication skill a.k.a sweet talk), and you'll be doing very well.

famous as in...skilled and knowledagable guitar tech?

and this also lead into a conclusion - you won't get far if you're not prepared. means, if you're well prepared, you can be successful in anything.

the rest are all marketing...

lol, doesn't "worth" it or make sense if teaching part time, especially ts only want side income...

i know a female violinist play for 2k~4k per night, but only when there's big function going on. she play solo, means minus one and electric violin hah! 5 songs can earn as much as 2k~3k.

of why she can be successful? because she's got certs and papers plus she's fantastic on marketing and packaging herself.

and her cousin is trying to compete with her, a handsome violinist.

3k x 14days is way more than the pay of regular MPO player's monthly salary.

no comments...

well...lol...

not to say youjian's teacher is bs'ing, but i know some teachers want to earn big respect from their students so they made up some stories.

or perhaps he heard wrong, it's 2 week straight, 3k in total. that sounds more reasonable.

regarding the play by ear, i don't have comments on their system, but their student's concert doesn't impress me much, in fact, lots of bad habit were not corrected.

hmm. let me put it this way.

say, you want to open a speghetti restaurant. so you started off everything and start cooking. taste ok, not bad, and can compete with other stalls. however, you only know how to cook speghetti, and only know what to put.

so here comes the problem - one day you found out your speghetti become so bad. but you don't know what's the problem - your pan? your timing? your ingredients? spices? noodles/pastas? or even the environment? you don't know cause you never got deep into it - you only know what to put and how to cook, but dunno why you want to put those ingredients/the way you cook.

if i want to learn how to cook speghetti casually, i can straight away learn from my mom or my friend, or even buy recipe books. i don't need to go to chef schools.

you might be able to sustain for a while, but you'll end up disasters when you try to troubleshoot when problem arrised.

but then, if that's what you want, then just go ahead. nobody can stop you.

This post has been edited by little ice: Feb 15 2009, 10:03 AM

grade 8? yes and no, as long as you have the true skill. pop piano is surprisingly in demand, so it's not difficult to find students. just head to one of the music center that offer pop piano lessons, teach there for a while. if your teaching is good (which has nothing to do with your piano playing skill), then your students will start to bring you more students. if your teaching is not good, sorry, your name will also become bad among the public.

that said, if you don't have any idea what teaching is all about (read: goal of teaching, NOT teaching skill), i suggest you not to. students have no time to waste so please let them have a nice learning journey.

i'll let empire to answer this...