Music Lessons: Guide Your Child to Play a Musical Instrument (and Enjoy It!) [Paperback] Review

As a full time guitar teacher with classical training, my review is this:

This is a great sort of book, that I wish far more parents would read.However, I found it far less specifically useful and less organized than Jessica Baron Turner's book:
Your Musical Child: Inspiring Kids to Play and Sing for Keeps

Furthermore, lots of this sort of advice can be found online and in other books and magazines."Music Lessons" has a very biased view toward the European orchestra tradition, basically assuming that is the way to go through music education.There is virtually no mention of singing as a dedicated field, very little mention of other world musics or popular music, and the long prose will give you some good advice, but it is not easy to reference and look up specific things later.

There are moments when I really liked the advice, such as emphasizing the variance between students, and emphasizing the need for direct parental involvement.However, there were also moments when I was really turned off by some bold claims or biases, or by the utter ommission of certain ideas or instruments.

I would strongly recommend this over nothing, but if you read only one book, I'd recommend Jessica Baron Turner's first, and then maybe Amy Nathan's second The Young Musician's Survival Guide: Tips from Teens & Pros, and there may be others I haven't reviewed that are also better.

If you are already very classically biased, and like friendly conversational tone, then this book is good for you.Most of the advice is definitely good.

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