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April 11, 2011 at 10:31 pm #83209

Julietta Anne Rabens
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I am considering working via Skype for students in rural settings or with health issues that makes it difficult to travel to lessons. I would be interested in hearing about the experience of other teachers using this approach.

I am also wondering about setting a fair and reasonable lesson rate. How do Skype lesson rates compare with traditional studio lessons? For those who teach via Skype, what do you charge compared with your traditional lessons?

April 12, 2011 at 4:49 am #83210

Brandee Younger
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Hi Julietta,

Please email me: brandee.younger@gmail.com.

April 12, 2011 at 5:56 pm #83211

Julietta Anne Rabens
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Thank you, Brandee! I am looking forward to your input.

April 15, 2011 at 3:03 pm #83212

loretta-o-driscoll
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I have been doing this with a student for a few months and would be happy to share my experience with you.

loretta@silverstrandstudio.com

April 16, 2011 at 4:56 pm #83213

sharon-crabbe
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Dear Julietta,
I have also had experience via Skype lessons.

April 17, 2011 at 7:55 am #83214

Elizabeth Volpé Bligh
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I have tried teaching by Skype, and find that it works well for some things. You can see hand position well enough to correct it, and you can demonstrate hand position and fingerings to the student if you have your harp set up in front of the web cam. Phrasing and evenness are a little hard to judge unless your speakers and their mics are of excellent quality. You can always say that it sounds uneven to you and ask if it really is. Most students will acknowledge if it is indeed uneven.

If the technology on both ends is quite good, then obviously your result will be better. I tried giving master classes via a very high-tech set-up at UBC Telestudios, and that worked extremely well. It was like they were in the same room with me.

It certainly beats having no lessons at all if they are in a remote location where there are no teachers. I charge the same per hour, since it is still the same amount of time that I am devoting to that student, and they are still learning.

April 25, 2011 at 1:44 am #83215

Saul Davis Zlatkovski
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How important is the setting in which you give the lesson via skype?

May 16, 2011 at 7:03 am #83216

laura hill
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Hey,Thank you so much for this efforts..this is great idea to teach such issues via skype.

June 11, 2011 at 11:39 pm #83217

mr-s
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Hi Julietta i hope one day can find a students like that,as i am suffering here in finding a local students without instruments, if you started it tell me the result please.

July 4, 2011 at 6:10 pm #83218

emily-mcintyre
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Please keep considering teaching via Skype, Julietta. Living as I did in a rural community when I began lessons, I took some “lessons” over the phone for a few months. Since I have an extensive music background and a good imagination, I actually ended up with no bad habits to correct when I finally found a teacher (still 1 1/2 hours away). However I don’t think many would be quite so lucky. Skype is a great way to go for those students who truly can’t find a physical teacher.
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