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Choosing a Music Teacher
ACCREDITATION/QUALIFICATIONS
Be aware that there is no legal requirement for someone to be accredited or qualified in order to offer music lessons and there are lots of people claiming to be music teachers who do not have the necessary skills.
Music. Play for Life strongly recommends that you check whether a teacher is accredited and/or qualified before you start.
In each of our listings here, we include information about qualifications or accreditation where it has been provided.
Even professional musicians may not know the significance of some qualifications shown in these listings. If you decide to explore taking lessons with a particular teacher, try to get further insight into their qualifications and experience. If there are no qualifications listed, it would be best of you probed further about the teacher’s track record before making any commitments. Here’s a guide to things to ask:
- What musical styles do you teach?
- Can I come and watch a lesson with a student of a similar level?
- How long have you been teaching?
- Where or with whom did you study?
- Do you have relevant formal qualifications? Where and when did you receive them? Do you have accreditation as a teacher of this instrument/voice/subject?
- What are the levels that you teach? Do you take beginners? advanced students? students who are aiming at a professional career as a musician?
- How many minutes do you recommend for lessons for this studenQQt?
- How much practice do you recommend for this student?
- (If you are the parent of the student) What sort of involvement do you recommend for the parent?
- (If this is important to you.): Do your prepare students for exams - if so which ones (e.g. AMEB, Trinity College)?
- What opportunities will there be to play with other students, or to perform for others?
- Do you teach improvisation?
- Do you yourself give public performances?
- How much do your charge for a lesson?
- Have you made a commitment to a formal ethical code for music teachers?
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