12 Gifts for the Musician Who Has Everything

Do You Have A Musician On Your List This Holiday Season?

It may seem that they have everything they could ever need. Every songbook, every fancy guitar pedal, or every smart tuner. They might seem like they have it all, but there are two things in this world that not a single musician can ever have enough of.

Those two things every musician needs:

1. Practice

2. Great Teachers

Practice and guidance from great teachers are irreplaceable. An infinite amount of expensive gizmos, smartphone apps, and high-quality gear can't make up for the importance of those two things. Now that you know the two things a musician can never have too much of, how will you go about giving them the gift of practice and guidance for the 2021 holiday season?

Here are 12 gifts you can give to the musician who has everything

1. Unlimited group classes

This one gift covers both the issue of practice and guidance from great teachers, plus it adds the aspect of a learning community. An annual membership to the Lessonface pass will provide unlimited access to live group classes in a wide variety of topics, instruments, and levels. All the pass classes are taught by highly-rated and professional Lessonface teachers. If this person on your list plays multiple instruments or has expressed interest in learning something new, this is the perfect gift.

2. One on one Lessons with their perfect teacher

Lessonface offers live 1:1 lessons with professional and accomplished teachers around the globe. Any musician in your life will be able to find the perfect teacher on Lessonface for any level or style of music. We even have plenty of teachers here on Lessonface who take lessons with other teachers, if you needed more proof that any musician, no matter how high their level of training is, needs to continue learning no matter what.

Your giftee can browse the many categories of lessons we offer to find a great teacher, or they can post an inquiry. Inquiries give any new student the chance to share their goals with the community of teachers on the platform who can then respond if they think it would be a good fit. There is a teacher out there for everyone, at any level, with any schedule, guaranteed!

3. Let them choose with a Lessonface Gift Certificate

If you can't decide, have no fear. Our gift certificates can be used on 1:1 Lessons, Group Class Series, and the Lessonface Pass. We've just rolled out three designs to choose from with a fully customizable form. You can specify who the gift is for and who it's from, along with a personal message, that you can then print or send directly to the giftee.

More Gift Ideas

We thought you might want some more options for the perfect gift for the musician who has everything. You can give these together with the above options, too.

To get some ideas, we asked the online music teachers at Lessonface to share their top music gift choices for a meaningful and useful gift to an aspiring or accomplished music student. Giving the gift of music can take on many forms, from a special method book, a piece of gear, to supporting the arts, lessons, or master classes. The teachers at Lessonface share their top ideas to help you find the right gift for the musicians on your list.

4.  A Metronome

An essential component of a musician’s practice regime is a metronome.  This makes the perfect gift for any musician.  Diana Desai, online Flute Teacher, shares that many students don’t have a physical metronome, and having one is far better than using an online version. 

5.  A Luxitune Tuner

Do you have someone on your list who is both a violinist, violist, or cellist and an elegant, special individual? Luxitune tuners are handmade by jewelry designer HyeJun Park, sparked by her love of classical music and fashion. The brand was created in collaboration with Katherine Fong, violinist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, combining forces of aesthetic and functionality in a way that makes these tuners truly one-of-a-kind. 

To name just a few orchestra musicians who use Luxitune tuners, Violin soloist Chee-Yun, plays a 1708 Stradivari with a gold and Iridescent Luxitune Pavé Ball tuner, Maxine Kwok-Adams, First Violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra, uses several Luxitune tuners on a rotation basis, and Tina Guo, the grammy-nominated Cellist and Composer, uses four Pavé ball iridescent cello tuners on her electric cello.  Any orchestra musician would love this as a gift, and they would think of you every time they tune their instrument. 

6.  A Music Stand

It’s funny to say, but many students do not have a music stand when playing their instrument.  Diana Desai suggests giving a music stand as an impactful gift that will prevent forming poor posture habits.  A music stand promotes better posture and is an efficient and thoughtful gift.

7.  A Loog Guitar

If you have a young aspiring musician on your list, a Loog Guitar is a perfect gift option. These guitars are made with young learners in mind to make practicing an instrument fun and easy to transition into a larger instrument as they get older. Every Loog Guitar comes with chord learning flashcards and access to the Loog app to make learning exciting. Plus, if extra 1:1 attention is needed, we have certified Loog instructors on Lessonface to book lessons with!

8.  Practice Pad for Drumming

Online drum teacher Bobby Angilletta recommends the Rudi-Pad.  Bobby shares, “this portable drummer’s practice pad can turn any surface into an instant practice pad and features the standard 26 American rudiments printed right on the pad, so you always have something to practice. You can roll it up and put it in your back pocket, please sit on top of a drum or a table, and it’s washable, and it also can even be used as a mouse pad.”

9.  A Hue Camera

Hue Cameras create solutions to remote learning and teaching with their fun, flexible webcams. Hue Cameras connect to your computer and serve as a webcam, document camera, light, and microphone all in one. Plus, they're pretty cute, too!

10.  Vocal Music Books

Singers love receiving new music to explore in their lessons and classes!  For the singers of all ages, Kara Alfano, online voice coach and teacher, recommends, The First and Second Book of Solos series (compiled by Joan Frey Boytim) and the Standard Vocal Literature series (edited by Richard Walters), which come in a variety of vocal ranges and provide students with a lovely cross-section of traditional classical vocal music in English, Spanish, Italian, German, and French.  For singers interested in the musical theater repertoire, The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology includes music from the stage, spanning the 1920's-present, and comes in all voice ranges.  

11.  A Portable Amp

If you are a guitar player and learning the electric guitar, online guitar teacher Sara Landeau recommends a small, portable amp with selectable effects and headphone jack, like the Fender Champion 20 1x8” 20-watt combo amp, as the ideal piece of gear for at home playing. Sara shares, “it is not much larger than a lunchbox and sounds great.”

12. Kyser Quick-Change Capo

For the acoustic guitar player, there are many accessory products. The one accessory item that online guitar teacher Chris Dunnett recommends is the Capo, short for capotasto, meaning “head of the neck,” which allows you to quickly and easily change the guitar's key.  By clamping a capo onto the 2nd fret of the fretboard, you can raise the key of the guitar by a whole note!