Books

Teach yourself – A musical instrument.

Learning a Musical Instrument: A Guide for Adult Learners by Richard Crozier

A guide for taking up a musical instrument for first timers or those who want to pick up from where they left off as a child.

The author helps the reader to answer such questions as which instrument they should choose, the level of difficulty involved in learning and the likely costs. The book discusses the various benefits of taking up music for fun and general well-being.

It includes useful contact information to help readers to take their interest further. 

Teach Yourself to Play Guitar. A Quick and Easy Introduction for Beginners by David Brewster

Teach Yourself to Play Guitar offers the beginning guitarist not only a comprehensive introduction to essential guitar-playing fundamentals,

Its a quick, effective, uncomplicated and practical alternative to the multitude of traditional self-instructional method books. You’ll learn: tuning; basic hand and finger positions; open chords, power chords, and barre chords; strumming and picking; single-note melodies and riffs; patterns and fills; and more.

Piano Book for Adult Beginners by Damon Ferrante

Piano Professor, Damon Ferrante guides you through how to play the piano with step-by-step lessons for beginners and 20 streaming video lessons.

There are also 75 MP3 audio files that play every song and music example from the book, so that you know how they sound.

This easy-to-follow method, used by hundreds of thousands of piano students and teachers, is designed to be interactive, engaging, and fun. Recommended by Rolling Stone Magazine as the best beginner piano book.

Learn to play music

This is a very useful site to find the book to help you with any instrument and at your required level.

If you are a musician and have any advice for others, please do get in touch with us.

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