So You Want To Teach As A Private Music Tutor?
An Introduction for Musicians
For many of today’s musicians, working as a private music tutor has many benefits over working within an educational establishment. Firstly, you are a lot freer to choose where, when, and depending on how well you teach, WHO your students are. This will also let you continue whatever employment or other commitments you already have. Building up your student base slowly allows you to commit time to each of them to find out their learning style and prepare for their lessons without feeling overwhelemed suddenly with 30 new students starting next week.
Starting out, the idea of being an “expert” can feel rather daunting especially for those of us who learned by gigging, and may not be the best sight-readers. Others among us have studied music and/or education to higher levels. But no matter where you stand between these two, those first few steps into teaching music as an income is terrifying.
Two main advantages I have seen in my time working as a private music tutor are
1. You have a lot more potential to work the hours you choose, and where you...