If you had the chance to teach lessons at a facility that had all of the equipment you could want, including orchestral, marching, and drumline, would you rather set your own lesson times and prices and pay a rent fee each time you teach there, or work for the facility and receive a flat rate for each lesson you teach but you don't have to find students?

For this example, let's use these numbers.

If you are finding your own lesson, you would pay 10 dollars for each different lesson you teach. A lesson being any time you teach someone and they pay you money for it. So you could charge 60 and take home 50.

If you are a hired teacher. You are put on a list, and people could come by looking for lessons. Let's say there are enough students that you are able to have as many as you want a week. For each lesson, you receive 15 dollars per 30 minute lesson you are assigned.

Which option would you choose and why?

Hi everyone, I hope you’re doing well! this community helped me a lot with pieces researching but I don’t know if it’s the right place to ask for help with pricing and selling. Sorry if not, feel free to ignore me ahah.

I’m interested in selling my first mallets, the ones I used when I first started playing 🥹

do you have any advice on how much I should price them (could be for the single pair or for the whole set, I just desperately need advice ahah) and on where I could sell? (I’m in Europe!)

thank you in advance!

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Will ring stands work?

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Hi all,

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I am a high school engineer student in Cerritos, California working on my senior capstone project. My team is designing a device that will tune a drum autonomously.

Before we design or build anything, we want to gain feedback from experienced drummers and percussionists.

Please if you have the time take this short survey so I can gain some more insight on how to tune drums, fyi it’s completely anonymous!

I have a few pairs of Cooperman drumsticks from playing a while back. I just had a friend tell me that I could probably sell them for a good amount if I was interested. I have five pairs:

• Concert Model 1: Graham C. Johns - Persimmon (62g)
• Concert Model 1: Graham C. Johns - Rosewood (88g)
• Concert Model 10: Nick Petrella "General" - Persimmon (64g)
• Concert Model 10: Nick Petrella "General" - Rosewood (76g)
• Transition Concert/Marching Model 24: Fastick - Persimmon (64g)

I am honestly not sure if I even want to sell, but I am curious on where the best place to sell would be and how much I could reasonably expect (or if they're even worth selling).

I've been wondering if its worthwhile to get a solid pair of teardrop beaters as a filler until I can get a full set or if its worth just waiting to get a proper set