Moving to London to teach guitar?

siraxeman

£8.33 = half an hour @ £50/6 lessons. So its £16.66 per hour at that rate.

Well in that case I can only guess its subsidised by the school, and more likely to be one of the few schools that gets in their own instrumental teachers without going through a local music service that obviously has their cut to factor into the costs. Its definitely not sounding like the model that most of the country uses. And typically most instrumental teachers do less than 20hrs actual teaching per week! Then consider no holiday pay as well....and schools are closed 16weeks a year!  Teachers of Brass/woodwind/strings usually get a lot less than guitar/drums as 'classical' instruments are typically far less popular. Often I'm in school doing 1-2.5hrs at a time and someone will be doing say brass in the next room and they'll come to teach 1-3 kids! Hard to see a wage in that.

mellowsun

I think you'd be better off moving somewhere other than London if you want to teach guitar for a living and don't already have a full contact book.

A better option might be to move to London and get a day job that allows you to continue with guitar in your spare time, so you can get the qualifications needed to teach guitar.

Or choose a different city: I'd go for one of the B's: Bath, Brighton, Bristol or Brum.

57Deluxe

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Flink_Poyd

57Deluxe said:

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Blackpool

Veganic

Flink_Poyd said:

57Deluxe said:

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Blackpool

Bloomsbury (Peter Pan reference)

stecarey

In answer to some of the above questions and statements- 

So the 8k per year was for a shared student house, I've looked at a few of them around ICMP and that seems to be the going rate for an averaged sized room for a student. Enough to live in for a year. Facebook page showing ICMP accom here- https://www.facebook.com/groups/icmphousehunting/

I've never taught guitar, however, I have been teaching/instructing for 6 years- just not guitar specifically. 

Another City could be a good shout!
Currently, I'm considering moving closer to a city, within my current line of work, so that I can get more opportunities gigging etc. Then consider becoming a guitar tutor.

Neverland- I put that there as I don't want my current employer seeing this, slim chance but I'd rather him not think that I would like to leave. 

I'm quite industrious, I'll figure it all out... cheers for all of the comments/help so far.

Ste

MattBanshee

Grunfeld said:

ToneControl said:

Here's a map showing average rent of one-bed flats within 1km of each tube station:

That seems about right. Saw a couple of what looked like cheap anomalies in my neck of the woods (out East and north of the river) till I figured that your £500 in Redbridge will literally be a box room in a shared house that's likely to be occupied to maximum density with Bangladeshi or sub-Saharan families who speak little or no English, or West African families who speak a little more.  I used to do a NHS community gig so got to know the area well.  It looked a pretty hard environment and life but I guess it's all relative to what you've come from and not being able to afford anything else.

There's other anomalies on there; Ruislip Gardens and South Ruislip, for example, being slap bang in the middle of huge blocks of RAF housing for Northolt Aerodrome, which has skewed the averages down by about £200.

DefaultM

If someone gave me a choice between a move to London to teach guitar, or eating a bowl full of broken glass; I would ask if they'd prefer me to use a spoon or just grab bare hand fulls.

Nikko

DefaultM said:

If someone gave me a choice between a move to London to teach guitar, or eating a bowl full of broken glass; I would ask if they'd prefer me to use a spoon or just grab bare hand fulls.

...so thats a maybe?

Veganic

Is the ratio of teachers to students higher in London?

I would guess that a lot on competent guitarists gravitate towards London but fewer people have the time/disposable income or inclination to learn guitar?

Can anyone get a reasearch budget and test my hypothesis?

57Deluxe

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