The stuff I'm made of!

headbanger · Post by **headbanger** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:38 am

Brian, how right you are! My son is nine and he begs me to play bass or guitar along with him. He began one day at a rehearsal by taking over the drums & he showed an uncanny ability to keep time. From there he's migrated to piano. He doesn't play any guitar at all! Lately we've been doing Let it be on Hammond & Piano. Just great.

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 2:49 am

...my kid's eight but she already knows Am, C, G, Dm and E... not quite enough for her to play "Needles&Pins", though, as she says...

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:36 am

The first four will get her into any hootenanny!

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:52 am

Hee Haw!

Never played any of that hootenanny stuff but it sounds like fun.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:34 am

My nearly 3 y.o. dances to my CD and likes the Beatles (esp. Strawberry Field). She beats on a pair of bongos when I go into the music room to practice. I have to wait for her to leave so I can turn it up. We sing the theme to Spongebob Squarepants together, and it's on 93 times a day.

joeyr · Post by **joeyr** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:55 am

When my Gina was 12 she wanted a guitar. I let her mess with an old epiphone. I told her I'd buy her a guitar of her own when she learned C, Am, F, G. The next day she sat me down played "Teenager In Love," and I was forced to get her the strat she wanted -I was lighter in the wallet, but very proud.

She's now 21 and a metal queen (she also teaches guitar and vocals), and the music still provides a strong bond for us.

kog · Post by **kog** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:25 pm

Joeyr - very cool story. Wasn't lucky enough to have kids myself, but that's the way I always imagined it'd be for me too.

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:25 pm

...F is impossible for us at the moment, a barre now seems impossible for our little 'Mousie'...
Great story Joe!

joeyr · Post by **joeyr** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:30 am

I had the same situation with my son a couple of years later. Just one day, and he knew the progression. He has since forsaken the guitar and has become (gasp) a drummer. Now I'm ashamed to go out in public.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:43 am

LOL! Could be worse........

Back in the 70s I lived next door to an 80 year old guy (fantastic fella) who took up the violin. Whilst I had the utmost respect for him for having a go at his age, sheesh!!! Our cats kept committing suicide by running out on to the road!!

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:19 pm

Hope your cat got used to it however, Howard...

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:10 pm

We became sick of losing our loved kitty-cats, Sheena, so we took the easy option - we moved house!!

gregga41 · Post by **gregga41** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:45 am

My eldest daughter ,at 10,(now 20) wanted to learn piano and after a few months she showed enormous potential! Lessons were around $60hr for her classical tuition!!!!she completed 3 years.
Her younger sister,then 8, decided that she shouldn't miss out,so wanted to learn guitar! But not from me!It wouldn't be fair,she thought, that i didn't have to pay for lessons!A good teacher was found & cost $15per1/2hr.
Both girls played their instruments so well, that at the next Christmas, I bought a strat copy & amp and an electric keyboard for them.
Within a month ,BOTH girls gave up playing!!!!
Hope i have better luck with my 2 boys!

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:15 am

I've translated your story to my kid Howard, and that's what she said: "If his neighbour were you mum and you did your usual singsong every morning, the cats wouldn't have to commit suicide - they'd just die from the very sound!"

We won however! She finally did it (the barre)! (after 3 years of tryin'...)

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:54 am

Congratulations to both of you, Sheena. Do you really have a lousy voice, or is she just teasing you?

Similar thing here, Greg. My daughter took up tenor saxophone in year 9 and pleaded with me for 2 years to buy her one - the school ones were pretty average, and you had no idea who had last blown into the thing!! $2500 later, she's got her own sax! 12 months later she's traded it in as part payment for a ****** Barina for $300!!

That hurt!!