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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
As Mrs.KK is a music teacher but specialises in singing in piano and I play a bit, everyone kept telling us our son would be musical. Well, one hopes so but I've seen that's not necessarily so.
We applied the gently-gently approach. We made sure there were instruments around the house i.e. guitars, piano, synth, kazoo, various percussion, including electronic pads, and we just let him have access to them and just watched if he liked something or gravitated to any particular instrument as well as always having various music playing in the house. As it turned out, he chose drums and vocals, but he can pick out a tune on piano.
After 4 years of playing drums, and this includes private lessons and playing in band situations at his Saturday rock school and school productions, at 13, he's a Grade 6.
I think my proudest 'Dad Moment' was when he turned to me one day and said "Dad, can we have a jam"?
He's a regular kid who likes the trappings of today's teenage generation, which includes electronic devices, but I'd say he spends three-quarters of his free time playing and studying music without any prompts from us and he looks forward to it (thank God for a Roland drum kit and headphones)!
It's a wonderful thing to see and one of the best things I saw was a couple of years ago when the advanced group at his rock school (average age 14), performed 'Dark Side of the Moon' in its entirety and here's clip
I don't think you can do more than provide experiences and encouragement for what they see as important. If that happens to be the same things you love then great.
I've never pressured her with it but I've noticed the better she gets at piano the more interested she is in playing guitar and I hear her practicing more now than ever.
Nice one Wolfetone!
I didn't do anything regards my boy, though he always had music around. He decided he wanted to play and we got him a Strat copy after he made do with a terrible classical for a time. He got into it well, but Rock School lessons nearly killed it for him. At 11 he stripped down the Strat completely, resprayed it & changed pickups & wiring, changed trem etc. Now 19 he still uses it along with a Jazzmaster I built and his band are a proper good mates. Most if not all of them look like going to Manchester to do music tech & production type courses.
For a while he wanted to jam and be shown things, but I guess the teenage go-it-alone thing kicked in and while I could've taught him stuff & saved him time, letting him explore his own way, supporting where possible, has worked best.
My daughter is 7, and although there are always guitars around the house and she sees me and other family members playing lots, I think that one of the reasons she's not interested at the moment is that she thinks of it as her dad's hobby so why would she want to do the same thing!
that said, my no 1 love is mountain biking. growing up I didn't know a single person int biking and I stumbled on it purely by chance. (had to get somewhere really quick, so took a forest short cut and loved it...)
Been riding ever since, turns out I live in an MTB paradise.
I love the random connectivity of it all.
Sorry I digress ....
I liked hearing about Billy Morgan (bronze in big air) his parents encouraged him to go to Gymnastics, he did that for a while, then went snowboarding on a dry slope... ends up the first man to land a quad cork. Sometimes we need to let life be random and not impose too much direction on others.
My daughter's HK Strat wasn't that great to be honest. They were Indonesian made and obviously budget guitars, the neck on hers was horrible but it was the last one Peter Cook's had in stock so I didn't have any choice. They can always be made better I suppose. They definitely look cool in a kitsch so-bad-it's good sort of way. I sold hers for £90, if I'd known they were going to go up in value I would've held onto it till they started fetching silly money. The Bad Maru bass from the same range is also daft, but eminently collectible.