Highland Music offers instrument lessons

It’s rare to find someone who lives in the Highland Park area who hasn’t heard of Highland Music or at least seen its recognizable pink building along Clairmont Avenue. 

For the last 37 years, Highland Music owner Don Murdoch has operated the family-owned music store, a full-service instrument shop that repairs, modifies and sells guitars and some other instruments. 

What people might not know is this Birmingham staple also offers a variety of music and instrument lessons for everyone from beginners to pros. 

Highland music instructor William A. Yarbrough said they primarily offer guitar and bass lessons but also occasionally teach banjo and saxophone. Yarbrough said they try to pair people up with a teacher with similar interests, styles and availabilities. 

Lessons can last however long the student needs, but it’s usually from 30 minutes to an hour, Yarbrough said, and takes place at the store. 

The lessons are offered for all ages, but Yarbrough said adults or older teenagers are the ones that usually come to Highland Music for lessons.

Yarbrough said at the store there’s “all kinds of cool pieces” for people to try, “especially from a student perspective.”

“If a student is thinking about maybe getting another guitar, or needs some work done on the guitar, we have all the resources and what-not right here, versus it being just a teaching place,” Yarbrough said. 

To set up lessons or discuss rates, go to highlandmusicbham.com/index.html or call 254-3288.