Shades Music

I went here quite a while ago for violin lessons, and it was okay-ish. The music teachers need to stop pressuring their students into doing exams. They should teach them how to generally improve on technique, sound, etc rather that skipping all the way to exams (which do help you improve but it's far better to wait to do exams/ wait between each level of exams). They should also push their students to do better. They were sending me home with one line of music to practice when I had 3 years e...

After recently moving to the area I decided to pop into my new local music shop. They stock a good range of instruments, books as well as loads of accessories. It seems as though they cater mainly for beginner to intermediate musicians, even offering an in house tuition service staffed with pros based in the area. The staff were friendly and very happy to help. Am sure I will be back soon!

I can't recommend these guys highly enough. My top choice for music tuition and all your musical need in their shop too. They are really friendly and helpful. When I was doing We Will Rock You at the Birmingham Hippodrome, Shades helped me out with music and tuition for my next audition...Brilliant, and nice people too!

I am a music professional and educator and use Shades regularly, they are always freindly and bend of backwards to help with whatever I need. There is a good selection of mid range stock with the odd gem of a guitar thrown in so it is really worth popping in to see what they have in stock. They also run an extremely good music tuition programme employing very good educators who are all very talented professional musicians. The tuition is all based upstairs and it is nice to see such enthusia...

I took up lessons in piano at shades music and they have been extremely helpful and had some great teaching, and now I am not only learning piano but guitar as well. I would definitely recommend this store/lessons.