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Cool stuff. Keep him practicing. I wish I would have started earlier than I did, but I only have myself to blame.


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geez, at 10 I was stuck on changing chords so that there wasn't this long pause inbetween them!! wait a minute.....i'm not even sure that I was taking guitar lessons 'till I was 11...but that's beside the point. Good for him! soon we'll be seeing him on TV and stuff and be like "that's frankiethekid's kid!!!" :D

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My grandson just started taking guitar lessons about five months ago (he's about the same age). I didn't know if it was just a fad or not, but I'm hearing that he's practicing constantly, so maybe it'll stick. I bought him a guitar and amp for Christmas.

He's going to spend a week with me at my vacation home in July. I'll let him play with some people that I jam with, and see how he likes doing that (that motivate him some more).

Hopefully, he'll get as good as your son. Any ideas for me for motivating him? (I don't want to be pushy with him)

from what i understand about kids, the most important thing is instant results. what i think might have started the whole craze was when i went over to pick up my two youngest, who had gone over to visit my two oldest. i was challenged by the big brothers to try my hand at guitar hero. i sucked. after we got home i showed seth how i could play the song on a real guitar. (foghat - slow ride).
seth saw how easy it was, so he tried it... and kept trying it 'til he got it.
lots of kids take guitar lessons, or piano lessons, but get tired of it because all they want to do is play a song... a real song.

if you want to edge him on, teach him a couple of real songs... and encourage him to keep the lessons up so later he can play like jeff beck ;)

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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:32 pm
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Kids are amazing these days.
My son started playing guitar less than 4 years ago; today he has a band, and in September, is off to the University of Massachusetts Lowell as part of their Sound Recording Technology program...he will be studying to be an audio engineer. Needless to say, I am also a proud dad.
Just keep on encouraging and supporting them in their goals.
here is his bands myspace page..
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Syeklops wrote:
My grandson just started taking guitar lessons about five months ago (he's about the same age). I didn't know if it was just a fad or not, but I'm hearing that he's practicing constantly, so maybe it'll stick. I bought him a guitar and amp for Christmas.

He's going to spend a week with me at my vacation home in July. I'll let him play with some people that I jam with, and see how he likes doing that (that motivate him some more).

Hopefully, he'll get as good as your son. Any ideas for me for motivating him? (I don't want to be pushy with him)

from what i understand about kids, the most important thing is instant results. what i think might have started the whole craze was when i went over to pick up my two youngest, who had gone over to visit my two oldest. i was challenged by the big brothers to try my hand at guitar hero. i sucked. after we got home i showed seth how i could play the song on a real guitar. (foghat - slow ride).
seth saw how easy it was, so he tried it... and kept trying it 'til he got it.
lots of kids take guitar lessons, or piano lessons, but get tired of it because all they want to do is play a song... a real song.

if you want to edge him on, teach him a couple of real songs... and encourage him to keep the lessons up so later he can play like jeff beck ;)


I was worried at first that my grandson was going through a fad faze, and expected instant results. I showed him a few very simple things on my guitar that would at least make a sound, like a song. So far he's doing great, reading music (which I can't), practicing scales, and is charged up about it, just like when he first started. I've also heard that his teacher is now teaching him a few songs (so at least he sounds like something), which seems to be helping too.

I'll have him for a week in July. He's bringing his guitar and I'll have an amp for him. I'm usually playing for hours with a friend of mine and he's seen us do that. So I'm hoping by then, he can join us for some simple three chord songs, where he can feel what it's like to play with people. That might get him a little more fired up. Maybe......well, let's see....Johnny Cash-Folsom Prison Blues.

I suck at guitar hero too.

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I wish my dad was proud of me but since my parents divorce i hardly ever see him.Only thing we have in common is our love for good old rock n roll


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today he has a band, and in September, is off to the University of Massachusetts Lowell

i was born in lowell, my sister works at the university :)
i know what you mean about kids... but the majority of kids i know are into the computer-generated music... if you can even call it music. out of 22 acts at the talent show, only 4 played actual instruments.
it does my heart good to know that there are still those who have an interest in actual musicianship.
it's one thing for a musician to use a computer as an instrument, but when the machine is doing all the work leaving musicianship in the lurch... that ain't music.

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So I'm hoping by then, he can join us for some simple three chord songs...
well, let's see....Johnny Cash-Folsom Prison Blues.
I suck at guitar hero too.


don't forget Marshall Tucker's "Can't you see"
ELP's "Lucky Man"
Skynyrd's "Simple Man"
Audioslave's "I'm the Highway" isn't too hard either
Pink Floye "Wish you were here"

I never learned to read music either... sight-read that is, i can look at sheet music, and after a month or so, i could figure it out.
hey, rumor has it hendrix didn't read music either... so we're in good company ;)

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I wish my dad was proud of me but since my parents divorce i hardly ever see him.Only thing we have in common is our love for good old rock n roll

it's too bad the kids get hurt the most when families are torn apart for whatever reason... sometimes it's for a good reason... sometimes maybe not. i don't know your situation or that of your parents, but maybe to suggest to your mom that you want to see him might be a good idea. i know if i was ever separated from my kids it would kill me... perhaps your dad feels the same way... maybe he thinks you don't want to see him, and he's afraid to make the first move, especially if he knows it will make your mom upset.
i'd be willing to bet he's proud of you, he just doesn't get much opportunity to show it.

i hope i don't get myself in trouble for all this... i have a 7th grader here too, raised two others besides him, and seth's on his way up... so, yeah, i know how a dad feels about his kids... at least i know how this one does.

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tried to get pics... room was too dark.
wife and i tried to convince him to sing too... nothing doing... guess he's more of a robert fripp, or skunk baxter.
i've had the guitar hanging around the house for quite some time. he took an interest in it a few months ago so i fixed it, seated and filed some frets, adjusted the neck, bridge and intonation as best i could, and boy did he catch on quick... bar chords, riffs and everything. he's working on stairway and black dog right now.
he asked me the other day, "daddy, if you played white room, how would you play it?"
so i figured out the chord arrangement and he's working on that one too.
thing that surprises me most is the classic rock genre... i think he gets it from his big brothers' guitar hero game.


Guitar Hero is probably the largest zone of media for guitarists. Just about every other guitarist I go to school with gets 90% of the songs they play from Guitar Hero (and then they only play one part of THOSE songs, so it gets old quick).


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Guitar Hero is probably the largest zone of media for guitarists. Just about every other guitarist I go to school with gets 90% of the songs they play from Guitar Hero (and then they only play one part of THOSE songs, so it gets old quick).

my little guy has been getting introduced the songs on "hero", but then he'll either ask me to teach him how it goes, or find the "how to" videos on you-tube. the other day before the show we were sitting in the living room with "sunshine of your love" playing on the computer and we went through the whole song from beginning to end... and he seems to be driven in that direction for all the songs he's learning.
i asked him if he thought guitar hero was helpful and he had an insight i'd never thought of... he said, "well, one good thing is - it teaches you if you make a mistake - to just keep going."

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I'm still in highschool and have only been playing for 2 years. My Parents are divorced and the only musical support I get is from my dad, which I only see over the summer. He'll get me a few gigs hooked up to play when I get to his house after school's out and he definately backs me up as far as support. And so do my grandparents. So all of you grandparents out there, please continue to encourage and support you grandkids even if they do sound horrible.

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Thats awesome!
I wish I'd have started playing at that age...

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As the youthful, impossibly hip, colourfully-garbed denizens of the great metropolis of Chicago exclaim with profound spontenaity, simultaneously accompanied by flourishing gestures and elaborate hand choreography...

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As the youthful, impossibly hip, colourfully-garbed denizens of the great metropolis of Chicago exclaim with profound spontenaity, simultaneously accompanied by flourishing gestures and elaborate hand choreography...

"...You go, Little Dude!"

... and the young man knelt before his audience, calmly laid his instrument before him... the vessel from which had aforetime flowed the somewhat graceless profundities that captivated his fans... he then drew from within his cape a can of ronsonol, which he proceeded to pour upon the face of his beloved twang machine, and in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, he ignited it with a sulphur preparation...

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