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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Strings $70/hour. Would be $40/30 min. Age 12, started private lessons at 11 but only did a few 30 minutes and says full 60 is valuable. I asked the child recently because I'd switch to 30 minutes if they thought 60 was no longer productive. For now they say it still is, but they can potentially foresee a time where it would be too long if only focusing on technique. So I will keep asking periodically.[/quote]

This is a strange post.[/quote]

Which part is strange? I indeed had this conversation with my child in the past two weeks, and that's what they said. Playing doesn't generally exhaust them, in fact, they'd prefer a longer lesson, but they said specific techniques and harder material can be exhausting. So if a lesson was only that, they'd prefer a shorter lesson.[/quote]

DP here. That's usually not the progression, PP. The student needs the physical stamina to play for an hour and has to have enough mental wherewithal to absorb that hour intellectually. On no account should they repeat a certain technique for an hour! That's how you get injured. It's like a repetitive injury in sports. The usual lesson should include etude(s), and the performance piece(s) you're working on, and they should all focus on different techniques and/or phrasing. It's the teacher's job to observe the kid and tailor the lesson to what they can sustain.

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Thanks. That makes sense, and I appreciate it because I didn't play an instrument. Those were things my child said, not the teacher. The teacher is fantastic and they do lots of different things in lessons.

My main point was to have the child's input, which maybe others also don't agree with, but I think is important for my kid, both for the relationship and for logistics. They are ADHD, so maybe that makes a difference, but for now hour-long lessons work great.

There are other things like tutoring that they can only handle 30 minutes. Then there are other things they can do for 8 hours straight that adults think is crazy and exhaust their peers who love the same activity in way less time. So how long the teacher thinks the lesson should be would only be one data point in our decision.
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