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charlene · 01-02-2009, 01:53 PM

My son was a music lover from the git-go..his first steps at 8 1/2 months were right to the stereo cabinet where all the music he loved came from..lol. He would roll around our apartment in his little walker to get to the tv room when a tv commercial with music would come on..He'd sit there and bop around and take off when it was over.
A friends mum was a music teacher - piano and voice with a local school board and our boys became friends when they were 5. When Darryl would go to their house he would not leave the piano alone, barely playing with his friend. He would pick out songs from tv commercials he heard..playing them note perfect.. He would compose things in his head and play them and would remember them from week to week. His friends mum told me she thought he was quite talented and we might think about sending him for piano lessons - classical lessons thru the Royal Conservatory of Music. A former teacher there lived down the street and gave lessons from her home so he went there for years. He grew tired of the strict regimen and classical sort of music and had started playing his dads guitar. The piano lessons stopped but his classical training and ability to read and write music has stayed with him. A few years ago he auditioned on guitar at a prestigous music school and was accepted but chose not to go because it was based on jazz music, as are most music programmes of that sort..He picked up the trumpet and played it, the same with guitar, drums and piano. When he got that little guitar he picked it up and instinctively knew how to hold it. The baby pic of him with his fathers guitar is funny to remember because he would sit and hold the neck with one hand and 'strum' with his other..He badly wanted to be able to hold it the way he saw his father hold it but he was smaller than the guitar. So he would sit beside it for long stretches of time just listening to the sounds it made and loving every minute of it.

I believe a person either has a musical ability or not. The same with artistic talent..While we all may be inately able to whistle a tune, sing a nursery rhyme or draw a stick man I'm speaking of a "gift" that with lessons, practice, and time dedicated to the craft, gives us the likes of a Lightfoot or a da Vinci..
My talent lies in appreciating those talents in others..

01-02-2009, 01:53 PM	#11
charlene Moderator Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 16,001	Re: tuning a little guitar My son was a music lover from the git-go..his first steps at 8 1/2 months were right to the stereo cabinet where all the music he loved came from..lol. He would roll around our apartment in his little walker to get to the tv room when a tv commercial with music would come on..He'd sit there and bop around and take off when it was over. A friends mum was a music teacher - piano and voice with a local school board and our boys became friends when they were 5. When Darryl would go to their house he would not leave the piano alone, barely playing with his friend. He would pick out songs from tv commercials he heard..playing them note perfect.. He would compose things in his head and play them and would remember them from week to week. His friends mum told me she thought he was quite talented and we might think about sending him for piano lessons - classical lessons thru the Royal Conservatory of Music. A former teacher there lived down the street and gave lessons from her home so he went there for years. He grew tired of the strict regimen and classical sort of music and had started playing his dads guitar. The piano lessons stopped but his classical training and ability to read and write music has stayed with him. A few years ago he auditioned on guitar at a prestigous music school and was accepted but chose not to go because it was based on jazz music, as are most music programmes of that sort..He picked up the trumpet and played it, the same with guitar, drums and piano. When he got that little guitar he picked it up and instinctively knew how to hold it. The baby pic of him with his fathers guitar is funny to remember because he would sit and hold the neck with one hand and 'strum' with his other..He badly wanted to be able to hold it the way he saw his father hold it but he was smaller than the guitar. So he would sit beside it for long stretches of time just listening to the sounds it made and loving every minute of it. I believe a person either has a musical ability or not. The same with artistic talent..While we all may be inately able to whistle a tune, sing a nursery rhyme or draw a stick man I'm speaking of a "gift" that with lessons, practice, and time dedicated to the craft, gives us the likes of a Lightfoot or a da Vinci.. My talent lies in appreciating those talents in others..