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Originally Posted by Tarter_trpt8 Personally, I think charging more than 75 dollars an hour is just an ego trip. "I'm this good so I'm gonna make you pay me more!" Maybe that's not the words they are thinking, but it is obsurd either way. Teaches in schools get hardly nothing, and professional athletes make more in a year than most will in a lifetime. Putting a price on experience or how good you are isn't quite fair to me. It's all about getting the skills you have to pass on to up and coming trumpet players. Once I get a studio, I won't charge anymore than 50 dollars and for my hardest working student, I wouldn't make him pay me as a reward for his hard work....
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Good points, Jeremy, but then again us "young" teachers in terms of experience can't hold a candle to teachers such as Charlie Banacos who's been teaching jazz improvisation since the late 50's! He's the only improvisation teacher who I can honestly say knows every aspect of jazz improvisation! He doesn't teach out of ego and never has... but can justify his rates because HE IS the best. I've got more in an half hour lesson with him then hours with other "jazz gurus".
People who can't afford him can always find less expensive alternatives like myself or other Banacos teaching Disciples.
-T