Is learning to play a piano a good investment?

Question

I thought of taking up a piano lesson and faithfully committing my money, time and effort until I reached grade 8, obtain a cert and graduate. I could give out part-time teaching afterwards. I do have interest in learning to play piano and I thought I could kill 2 birds with one stone.

Does anyone here teach piano lesson as part time or full time?
In anyone's opinion is this skill a good investment?

Thanks for your time for answering my question in advance.

Answer 1

You should learn to play the piano for the love of it. Only do it if you really like it, don't think of it as something you need to do to earn money. Piano is a good basis for learning to read and appreciate music, and is also great for when you want to learn to play other instruments.

I have many friends who teach piano or other musical instruments full time or part time. They love what they do, but have a hard time making a decent living despite advanced degrees.

Answer 2

I'm not musical, but I do understand something about investments. No, it is not a good investment in my opinion.

If you don't have the personality traits to be a teacher, no amount of training in a specific skill is going to make you a teacher. This should be obvious to anyone with enough public education to meet people with degrees in Teaching that can't teach.

Second, you might be a decent teacher, but never learn piano well enough to gain anyone's respect enough to teach them that.

Investments are when you put time and/or money into a project, and have a reasonable expectation of a monetary gain. I don't think that expectation is reasonable.

Learn it for your own pleasure, and if it works out that you can teach, that'd be nice. I've never met anyone that regretted spending time studying piano, but few ever make any money at it teaching.

Answer 3

I think you really need lessons. If you had already gone far with an instrument, and knew a lot about music, you might could get by on your own (even then, lessons would be very helpful) but as a beginner, you have very little chance of really succeedig without lessons. Does your school offer class piano? If so, that would be a great thing to sign up for. The keyboards made by yamaha and casio are amazing these days. They have a ton of sounds and rhythms, good sound quality, recording ability, and more for not much money. Check for sales at circuit city. Try one out in the store before you decide you want a particular model. If money is really an issue, you could get a used one. I spent $300+ for a top of the line keyboard last January, then bought a used one for $30 that I could keep at my girlfriend's house. Its amazing how good that keyboard is for $30. Hey, one feature you definitely want is touch-sensitive keys, where if you hit the key harder, the sound comes out louder. Also, if you can, get one with 5 octaves intead of 4. That means it has 61 keys instead of 49. Good luck!

Answer 4

It can be a good investment. If you reach a level of skill and have PATIENCES you can teach and make money the same as what you pay for lessons. But TEACHING is not like LEARNING.

Piano can be lucritive if you can sight read and are good at playing.

If you can sing or find a singer as well or put together a small group it is easy to make $300 a week starting playing lounges.

If you become popular it is easy to make $1,000 a week doing lounge work.

There's not much demand in classical music unless you are a solist of high calibre.

Musical theater always employs a pianist for auditions and work outs.

Singers go to them for charts and arrangements.

If you go to college you can become a music teacher in parimary or secondary school and already have your instrument kills in place.

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Answer 6

GREAT investment! if you can get really good at it. You can make a living. I know thats what i've done and its worked out great for me! and once you learn the piano you can learn about any other insturment out there.

Answer 7

A good investment? No.

However...

I took piano lessons for 12 years.

ALL my kids took piano lessons.

We ALL can play the piano.



Do ANY of us....use that skill -- no.

BUT.. We can ALL play the piano!!

yippee!!!!


.....we;re going to git a burger now...




.

Answer 8

Yes it is...once you've learned the piano and its keys, you can play just about any other instrument

Answer 9

i have taken it for 5 years and to be honest on a scale of one to ten ten being the best
i give piano about a 3, i means its fun when you have a song you like, but after a while you get sooo sick of it

Answer 10

it depends on how far you are going to take it with your life..
do you just want to learn so you may play songs at a hoilday or something...
or....................................
going to do shows for people who like listening to that particular music can enjoy!
or...