Birthday gifts for musicians
For the year they finally learn the thing.
Everyone has an instrument they've been meaning to get round to. A birthday is the day to call their bluff — kindly. A gift membership hands them every course on MusicGurus, from a first drum lesson to a masterclass with a concert violinist, with your name and your note on the front.
Why this gift
Why a birthday is the right day
A birthday gift has one job: prove you noticed. This one does it without you needing to know a thing about music — no guessing which book, which grade or which brand of strings. You just need to know they've mentioned the guitar in the corner more than once. Every course is included, so whatever they meant by "one day I'll learn", it's in there.
It also gives the year a shape. A 12-month gift is a birthday-to-birthday project: pick an instrument, follow a method, be noticeably better by the next cake. A month or three is a nudge; twelve is a promise you've made on their behalf.
Type their birthday into the delivery date and the email arrives that morning with your message on top — like a card, but one that starts a habit. If the day has already been and gone, "send it now" is a perfectly good belated present.
Where they could start
Six first lessons for a birthday
Genuinely-from-scratch courses across the instruments people most often say they'll learn — pick the one they keep mentioning, or let them choose.
A few of the 5,000+ lessons a gift membership opens — every course, guru and songbook is included, not just these.
Cómo funciona el regalo
How it works, in one breath.
- 01
Tú lo personalizas
- 02
Nosotros enviamos el regalo el día que elegiste
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Lo canjean, y su tiempo empieza entonces
Preguntas
Birthday questions
Can I schedule it to arrive on their birthday?
Yes — set the delivery date to their birthday and it goes out that morning, with a copy to you. Nothing is sent early, so the surprise holds even if you buy it weeks ahead.
They already play — is this still a good present?
Better, honestly. Beginners get the methods; people who already play get the masterclasses, the styles they haven't tried and the songbooks. A jazz pianist can spend a year on Tim Richards alone.
What if I don't know what instrument they'd pick?
You don't have to. The gift is the whole library, so they choose after they open it — and they can change their mind halfway without it costing either of you anything.
Can several of us chip in on one gift?
Collect the money among yourselves and one person buys it — put all your names in the "from" field and the message. The recipient sees every name in the email.
The general questions — refunds, redeeming, what happens if they already subscribe — are answered on the main gifting page
Other occasions
Not this one?
The present that's still going next birthday.
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