Availability:
I am so happy you have decided to receive piano lessons for either yourself, or your child(ren). Availability is limited so please tell me all possibilities for your schedule and I will see how I can work you in to my schedule.

 

Weekday lessons are given in my piano studio in San Clemente.
 

 

 

Tuition:
Tuition for private lessons is paid at the beginning of the month to reserve your time slot.  You can leave either cash or check made payable to Lois Kempff in an envelope on the piano.

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30 minute lessons cost $45.00 (ages 5-9)
45 minute lessons cost $70.00 (ages 10-13)

60 minute lessons cost $90.00 (ages 14-adult)

 

 

Instruction books:
Bastien  Piano Basics: Technic, Piano, Theory, Performance [replace Performance with hymns, movie themes, or classical pieces as desired]. By James Bastien. Kjos Music Co. San Diego.

 

[Parents need to order the Bastien Primer set of 4 books & have them available at the first lesson. A spiral notebook will also be needed for keeping track of daily assignments & practice.]

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​Other helpful instructional books:

Highly recommended to begin during Bastien Level 1:

60 Progressive Piano Pieces You Like to Play by G. Schirmer, Inc.

Hal Leonard Corp. WI
ISBN 978-0-7935-2573-7

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A possibility for students in Bastien Level 2 and beyond:

The Very Best of John Williams Arranged for Easy Piano by Dan Coates. Alfred Publishing Co., 2002

ISBN 978-0-7579-9245-2



More possibilities for students in Bastien Level 3 and beyond:

J.S.Bach. Two-Part Inventions for the Keyboard, edited by Willard A. Palmer; Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., Sherman Oaks, CA.



Standard Piano Classics 24 Masterpieces In Their Original Form; Practical Performance Edition by Allan Small; Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. Van Nuys, CA.