Listen to an album each morning, pick an easy instrument, don’t be afraid to write bad songs … you’ve got this!
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here are many benefits to making music, whether you are one or 100. But how should you approach choosing an instrument to play? And what are the best choices for a complete novice? We asked musicians for advice on how to live a more musical life, at any age.
“There is no age limit on learning,” says the singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, who lives in Dorset. “It is not a teenage thing. If you feel the music, you can probably play it and turn that feeling into something creative.”
“It is never too late to do anything, especially not creatively, because creativity allows you to be playful,” adds Jennifer John, a composer and vocal arranger from Liverpool. “If you think back to when you were a child, that came naturally.”
