While learning a musical instrument, whether you go to a personal tutor, use an online service such as ours, or learn through reading a theory book, has been shown to boost brain development, particularly at a young age, what often isn’t explored is how learning a musical instrument can help those with physical disabilities.

Here are some of the ways that learning a musical inst...

Mexican music has provided us with hit songs like ‘La Bamba’ and ‘Besame Mucho’. And cool Mexican instruments are behind the unique Mexican sound of these songs. You might already be familiar with the Mexican guitar, or guitarrónMexicano, which mariachi bands use. But the country has produced many other famous instruments and here’s a look at five of the coo...

The Pro Music Tutors are all seasoned professionals who have plenty of things going on besides tutoring for all of you budding guitarists and saxophonists. If you are looking to learn a bit more about the pros on our website, the tutors’ websites are a great place to start.

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If you’ve been browsing guitar songs, you should have come across with chords. Chords are the magical combinations of notes that create the amazing tunes we hear from the radio every day.

But not all chords are alike. If you are a beginner guitarist, you should start with the easier ones first and move on to the more diffic...

Following hot on the heels of the successful Building the Blues Series 1, James Morton has been busy once again in the Pro Music Tutor studio to bring us the follow up, Building the Blues Series 2.

Although you don’t need to have enjoyed the online sax lessons fr...

This post originally appeared on ben-church.co.uk, and is republished in full here with permission from the author.

I can’t remember the number of times I’ve sat down in the past with a line in my head that I thought would work well for a song and just started writing. I’...