Little Tricks That Help You Save Money When Learning Music

By Chazz F Korvex

Learning music isn't just about learning how to put those beautiful sounds together. In many ways, learning to play an instrument, we learn memorization skills, fine motor skills and we even gain better problem-solving abilities. An education in music is just a great way to make better people of all of us - young and old.

Have you had a chance to check how expensive learning music can be these days though? If nothing less than one-on-one teacher-student sessions will do and if you're looking for a reputed teacher, it can really set you back considerably every month in teacher's fees. But there are ways that you learn music for less.

Do you happen to have a skill that is in demand and that happens to cost a lot for people to hire? For instance, are you great at some kind of school subject or are you great with computer repair, electrical repair work, landscaping or anything? The thing is, you could arrange with a teacher to swap services. They could teach you or your child the music that you desire, and you in turn can either tutor their child in the subject you're good at or you could help them out with your skills, whatever they may be.

Traditionally, in learning music, the convention is to go with weekly classes. You only have a class a week usually because the lessons you learn with the teacher aren't the most important thing. Practicing them endlessly by yourself is. Weekly classes are quite adequate. Now they charge you by the hour learning music. If you could ask to take a fortnightly class - one every two weeks - you could easily halve the cost of what you spend. So, you get twice as much practice as the next kid before moving to the next lesson. Why should that be a bad thing?

Most people, when they think of learning music, choose to go with an experienced teacher at an established school. Have you ever considered how some people, when they can't afford dental treatment at full price, go to a dental college to be training subjects to dentists-in-training? Well, how about picking up young, advanced students of the instrument you're trying to learn? For a beginner such as yourself, the kind of training a good advanced student is capable of giving you should be quite enough.

By the time you're ready for a better teacher, you will have had time to save up.

Of course, whatever price you're quoted at the music school, you just can't accept the first price they give you. You do have to negotiate.