Do you have any experiences with or knowledge of speed learning being used to learn the physical skills of playing an instrument?
He's using speed-learning techniques to learn 6 different skills fast, and one of them is learning a new instrument.
Contact him here - http://joshkaufman.net/about/ - to see if he could give you some starter points for now, until his book comes out much later.
Do you have any experiences with or knowledge of speed learning being used to learn the physical skills of playing an instrument?