Free Music Tutorials

Want to learn how to play music and write songs? Look at these free tutorials and resources.


Here is the entire 1st edition of the ebook "Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music" available for free! The second edition is available to purchase as well.

At the Berklee Shares Web site you will find free individual self-contained music lessons developed by Berklee faculty and alumni to download, along with a library of MP3 audio, QuickTime movie, and PDF files that is free and open to the music community around the world.

Here is a FREE Online Course in Songwriting by Rein Menke. Subjects range from how to make good rhyme and rhythm in lyrics to choosing subjects, style, etc.