Big Music & Multimedia

As a music store Big Music has a decent range, but not the cheapest prices.
I’ve been attending guitar lessons for 6 mints now and the quality of the coaches is excellent! The rest of the staff are fantastic, always happy to help and they make a great effort to be accommodating. If you can already play, there are production studios and performance spaces available to rent. They’ll even organize a band for you to jam with if you like.
Highly recommend for learning to play!

Big Music… It’s Big… Yeah they sell everything… Guitars, electric and acoustic, They sell drums and ukuleles. They sell strings and percussion and have a small recording tech area where they stock the usual suspects. mics and software etc… Big Music is cool… but it’s not that cool… It’s not boutique. It’s not high end…
They do sell Gretch though… mmm white falcon…
I get the idea that there main business is up stairs where they have EXTENSIVE teaching facilities. Lots of rooms to learn what ever you want. prices are reasonable. I guess… and they also have a not too bad recording studio down stairs out the back with a Toft ATB 24 channel console and a few iso rooms. (with low ceilings) to record in… Newly built and I’ve heard good things about it from a few songwriters.
My vote is this. They’re local and I can get stuff there… hopefully… But if I want something High end… It’s not my first pick. but I’ll drop by to check it out…
P.S they have a great guitar tech who actually cares about the guitars he fixes

I always feel really awkward in music shops. I can barely play a riff, a lick, or a fill, and looking all the guitars and the effect pedals and the sheet music and the amps makes me feel like a bit of a pretender. Especially when the staff ask if they can help me with anything and I have to fight the temptation to confess my ineptitude to them. It’s like going to pick up your lost wallet at the police station and feeling vaguely guilty for how dirty your car is. As though they’ll know you’re not an upstanding citizen.
Big Music, thankfully, while definitely in the mold of the big chain music stores (guitars on the wall sky high? CHECK. guitars at ground level, worrying everyone who walks past? CHECK. a polo shirt based uniform? CHECK.) is a little more spacious and relaxed. The staff are very friendly, which is all the difference in a store like this, and they’re also very happy to let you be to browse. How else will you find your Rock N Roll Excalibur if you can’t listen to each one speak to you from the shelf? From drum enthusiasts, there is a separate room with the drum equipment and sets and for everyone, the selection of sheet music here is very deep, to the point that Kelly Clarkson’s Breakway is an offering.
For those of you who are working a day job while your rock opera about the rise and fall of General Pinochet gets some blog buzz, Big Music will fill the void. You never know: while perusing, you might just meet someone to sing backup.