Studio Policies

• Parent Responsibilities
  • Payment expectations
    • Monthly Payment is due at the beginning of the month
    • Individual Payment is due at the lesson time
  • Please provide your child with a suitable space to practice
    • This includes making sure they have appropriate equipment, like a music stand, and good lighting
    • Their bedroom is a perfectly fine space to practice
  • Please help your child be diligent with their practicing
    • Only through their daily work will they progress at a reasonable rate
  • Please provide 24 hour notice at least if you plan on missing a lesson
    • Exceptions for sickness and family emergencies, of course
    • Failure to provide notice and missing a lesson will incur a charge for that lesson
      
      • I will do my best to reschedule, but that might not be possible 
• Student Responsibilities
  • Materials: All students are expected to bring the following items to the lesson
    • Instrument and associated equipment (reeds, mouthpiece, etc.)
    • Music (including pieces, etude books, etc.)
    • Notebook or writing paper of some kind
      
    • Pencil
  • ​Be healthy!
    • If you are sick, please let me know by text/phone/email and do not show up for your lesson.
  • Be ready to learn!
    • ​You may think something I'm teaching is odd or pointless.
      • ​Trust me that I will never waste your time with worthless exercises.
    • ​I push you because I KNOW you can do it
  • ​​Be Punctual!
    • ​If you show up early, please wait either outside (in good weather), or patiently and quietly inside.
      • ​Use the time to assemble your instrument and get ready for your lesson.
    • If you show up late, please understand that I cannot give you your full time as there are students after you.
  • ​Practice between lessons!
    • ​Lessons are NOT a guided practice session.
    • Apply what I teach during the week so we can proceed to new techniques.
      
    • The amount of work given can be discussed at each lesson
      
      • ​General rule: Practice each day for the amount of time your weekly lesson takes
        
        • ​Half hour an day for a half hour lesson
          
        • Hour a day for an hour lesson
          
      • ​The more time you spend working correctly, the faster you will progress
        
• ​​​Teacher Responsibilities
  
  • ​I will be punctual and prepared
    
  • I will give 24 hour notice of a cancelled lesson, unless it's an emergency
    • ​I will do my best to reschedule any lesson that I have to cancel
  • I will be polite and courteous while holding students accountable for their work
    
  • I will provide as much information as I can about music, at the appropriate time
    
  • I will listen to student concerns and work with them towards solutions