How Does it Work?

How to take the first steps towards play­ing an instrument…

Start­ing to play music is obvi­ously very excit­ing but some­times the sim­ple ques­tion of “Where do I start?” keeps us from tak­ing that first step. We want to make that first step as easy and excit­ing as pos­si­ble. That is why we designed our courses with you in mind.

1. The first deci­sion is, which instru­ment suits you best.

–Before you go out and buy an instru­ment if you don’t already have one, it’s impor­tant to watch a few intro­duc­tory lessons. Too often, we run out an buy and instru­ment only to dis­cover we wanted to play some­thing else.

2. Do one, or only a few lessons each day.

–Although it may be tempt­ing to fly through dozens of lessons at a time, music, like any new lan­guage takes time to absorb and process. Bet­ter to play 15 min­utes a day every day than to play 2 hours straight only once a week. Much like work­ing out at a gym, overex­er­tion usu­ally leads to burnout.

3. Fol­low the les­son plan.

–We know you want to play the lat­est John Mayer song or rock out the solo from Stair­way to Heaven but you need a good foun­da­tion to play these tunes. If you fol­low the course out­line and stick to it faith­fully, you’ll be blaz­ing out solos and impress­ing your friends in no time. You’ll carry this tal­ent with you for the rest of your life so there’s no need to rush it.

Now it’s up to you to take the first step and start play­ing. Choose and instru­ment and let’s get started!

–Adrian Edward
co-founder of TheMusicWorkshop.com