Maybe it is for most students. There are several reasons why I say this. Let s take the most obvious reason first. If you study with the teacher offered to you, through the school, you re lucky to get twenty-five lessons in one year. And when I say lucky, I mean it.
Most students end up getting more like twenty lessons or fewer.
Now, for someone who doesn t need to be better than the rest, this may be good enough. If you study with someone independently of the schools, you can get twice as many lessons each year than the people who take private lessons in the schools. Another reason why lessons outside of the schools are better is that you can get a better teacher. Think about it, here in Houston there are so many schools which offer private lessons that it has become almost a guaranteed source of income for college students. There are literally thousands of trumpet students taking lessons through the schools in the Houston area.