Budding rockers can now play bass with Sir Paul McCartney after the star signed up to become a video tutor on a music website that won an important award last night.
Now Play It, a downloadable video training service featuring a course by Sir Paul, won Best Digital Service at the BT Digital Music Awards.
Other famous names to contibute tutorials to the site include Blur, KT Tunstall, Placebo and Athlete, producing 30-minute lessons in which they guide amateurs through their hits.
The videos, which include chord patterns and drum charts, cost £4 each and can be viewed on video-enabled digital music players. Artists describe their songwriting process and explain how to master tricky riffs, in a modern equivalent of Bert Weedon’s famous Play in a Day tutorial book.
Outside Line, the company behind Now Play It, is in talks to offer its 400 lessons free to schools. The Times has learnt that Sir Paul recorded his first video tutorial last week, choosing Ever Present Past, a song from his album of this year, Memory Almost Full.
A Now Play It spokesman said: “Sir Paul recorded lessons for bass, drums and guitar all inside one hour. He hopes to record further tutorials from his classic back catalogue.”
The tutorials also count towards Top 40 chart sales and give record companies, decimated by downloading, a valuable new income stream.
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