Tuition Benefits

Congratulations on choosing to participate in music lessons!  Although creating and participating in beautiful music is “priceless” obtaining the proper skills and fundamentals certainly requires assistance from a professional instructor. Tuition rates include both the hours spent teaching lessons and the extensive responsibilities behind the scenes. Research confirms that for 1 hour of classroom instruction, an instructor has invested 3 hours of time.

Responsibilities of a music instructor that may influence tuition rates could include:

Developing individualized lesson plans

Creating well-rounded curriculums

Preparing and updating studio handbooks, procedures, and policies

Continuously writing and emailing studio updates and newsletters

Responding to lesson inquiry emails, texts, and calls

Creating lesson schedules around numerous family availabilities

Searching for supplemental music for individual students

Taking frequent trips to the music store

Recital preparations like planning, set up, and tear down

Recital costs like programs, refreshments, and more

Purchasing backup copies of lesson books and supplemental materials

Purchasing various teaching tools and resources

Providing incentives and prizes for students

Purchasing music specific computer software subscriptions

Purchasing office supplies like copy paper, tape, pencils, printer ink

Seeking out and planning additional performance opportunities

Continuous training and experience

Continuing education classes

Recertification and licensing fees

Professional organizations and memberships

Professional journals and publications

Self employment tax and self employment insurance

AND MUCH MORE!!

Tuition rates ensure the highest quality of lessons are provided and the instructor is reasonably compensated.  Most private music instructors have no employer to provide health insurance, disability, vacation days, sick days, bereavement days, or maternity leaves.  Your instructor has chosen to make music their business and their occupation. As with any business, costs are calculated to ensure the instructor can continue to provide services.

Music enriches the lives of all who participate, and music lessons teach skills that will benefit students in all tangents of life forever.  You can feel confident that your investment in music lessons will provide a lifetime of enjoyment and happiness and is WORTH EVERY PENNY!!

Contact The Music Studio of Noel Smith to register for music lessons today!!

Noel Smith

mrs.noel.smith@gmail.com

614-929-8512