Budding rockers can now play bass with Sir Paul McCartney after the star signed up to become a video tutor on a music website that won an important award last night.
Now Play It, a downloadable video training service featuring a course by Sir Paul, won Best Digital Service at the BT Digital Music Awards.
Other famous names to contibute tutorials to the site include Blur, KT Tunstall, Placebo and Athlete, producing 30-minute lessons in which they guide amateurs through their hits.
The videos, which include chord patterns and drum charts, cost £4 each and can be viewed on video-enabled digital music players. Artists describe their songwriting process and explain how to master tricky riffs, in a modern equivalent of Bert Weedon’s famous Play in