Okay just to clarify some things for you guys.
The most famous ukulele school here in Hawaii is the Roy Sakuma ukulele studios. They charge about 20 for half an hour for beginner ukulele lessons. They all start with lesson #1. But these are lessons in a group. So you're not really given the individual attention that a budding musician needs. The instructors are talking pretty much half the time and the actual playing time is only about 15min. A few friends of mine are instructors there.
I used to teach by the hour but what I learned is that people tend to only remember a fraction of what I taught them within that hour. So I shortened the lessons and got better results. I would allow them to bring whatever they want to record the lesson (which is another reason why I charge so high) if you wanna bring a recorder or a video camera, it's fine with me as long as it's only used for further reference. Pretty much, the lesson you paid for is a lesson you can keep with you even after the lesson has concluded. Even though we say it's for half an hour, usually they tend to go a little longer because I'm more concerned about the student understanding the lesson planned for that day than how much time we have left. This doesn't mean that I'll let a lesson go for an hour. Practice must be done on your spare time as well. Also, with the price set to that, I can pretty much comb out who really wanted to learn the ukulele versus the ones who just came to me cause their parents wanted them too.
I teach things from basic theory to advanced techniques. I work on the mental, physical, and emotional approaches to playing the ukulele. While some of my methods have been quite unorthodox, the results became apparent in the way the player understanding the ukulele instead of randomly placing fingers on strings with wood.
Besides the physical techniques that I teach, I also try to promote musical individualism. No two people have the same exact thoughts and emotions, therefore everyone is different. I have methods to harness these thoughts and emotions and turn them into music. Let's all work hard to find our own identity
Music is a journey. Let me be the old man at the gas station you stop and ask directions from.
