It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

Paul McCartney was the bassist for The Beatles, but he played far more instruments than just the bass guitar. Even on the band’s records, McCartney jumped from instrument to instrument, taking over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rappers who play instruments bring an entirely different level of depth and artistry to Hip Hop. Their ability to blend lyricism ...

Most musicians spend years mastering a single instrument. Then there are those rare talents who look at one instrument and think, ‘Sure, but what about five more?’ These multi-instrumentalists aren’t ...

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the December 2008 issue of Macworld, prior to the introduction of GarageBand ’09. If you want to record music, you must know how to play it. Learning ...

“That Don’t Impress Me Much” singer, Shania Twain, has been playing instruments, or at least noisy percussive kindergarten toys, for decades. The artist learned to play guitar and, eventually, ...