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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I haven't seen this one asked, yet--here's your chance to acknowledge the person (or perhaps people) whose encouragement helped you along your journey as a guitar player. It might have been (or still could be) a teacher, friend, fellow bandmember; I don't mean someone you saw in concert or sat for hours trying to decipher a riff you heard them play.
I'll start--on guitar, a great guy named Bob Peterson, who patiently taught me finger-picking and was never too busy to explain how he played a particular run, picking pattern or chord progression. On bass, our own Robbie "Worshipleader," who called me out of my comfort zone to be our praise team's bass player. (Thanks, Bro, for all the patient endurance as I found my way.....)
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Location: big island | nice thread, karen
~my mommy.
she bought me a set of drums when i was 10 and then my first guitar two years later. has always encouraged me and still does... |
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Location: south east Michigan | Jeff Koch...
Lead guitar player in my old garage band, "Captain YoYo and the Seadogs".
He had the patience to teach me "Over the Hills, & Far Away". |
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Location: big island | brad,
this thread is about giving credit, not blame! ;)
i really enjoy the talents of you and brian. you guys are tight and have great harmonies. i now have the videos from the '05 and '06 tours. good stuff! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Lanaki...
So... ya think you're sittin' there all nice and safe out in the middle of the ocean do ya?? |
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Location: big island | i slipped an edit in there while you were posting...
hope that soothes your temperament. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Oh that's just great....
Now I'm timed out on being able to edit my thinly vailed threat.
Thanks for the compliment. We do try to have fun with it.
Now quick...
Somebody else answer Karen's good question. |
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Location: Waurika OK | My mother, probably at the first. The day the mailman brought my airline acoustic, she helped me pickout the notes to Tom Dooley.
A few nights ago she came into the room where I was playing, (she lives with us now since my dad died a few weeks ago) and sat on the bed and listened and encouraged me once again.
My wife has always said she did not want me to be without a guitar, although I think she was thinking in terms of 1 guitar.
Although I have picked up a lot from others, I've never had what you might call a mentor on guitar. |
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Location: GA USA | My brother, Hootie. When I was in college, I asked for a guitar for my birthday. He gave me his own Yamaha FG-200 and bought a hard Lowden case to fit it.
One day I plan to give it back, but I still play it very often. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | A troubled teen a few years my senior that my parents were trying to help out. Kevin, a seriously nice guy but prone to jump headfirst into any trouble he could find, stayed with us for a little while because he was living in his car. Dad offered him an opportunity to make some cash by painting our house one summer. He brought over a guitar one day because a few kids in the neighborhood were starting to play and he knew I wanted to learn. Kevin's deal? You clean my brushes every day and I'll teach you a new chord a day and a song a week. That was almost thirty years ago and, despite his 20 year stint in the army which took him all over the world, I stay in touch with him and his family to this day.
Have to - he still owes me "Classical Gas".
(Great thread, Karen ;) ) |
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Location: closely held secret | Hootie??? |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | When I was 16 a friend who was a guitar player asked me if I'd like to learn. After eight years of frustrating piano lessons and a two year gap I wasn't sure if I wanted to mess with another musical instrument but I decided to give it a go.
He came to my place with two guitars, handed one to me and showed me an E minor. I was hooked. He got "bored" with it and said "you'll have to learn the rest yourself but you can have the guitar."
I've still got the guitar, a Watson (pictured in my photo gallery) and thankfully I progressed past the E minor stage. Taught myself to play with the assistance of a heap of Neil Young song books with the little chord diagrams above the music...once I knew the basic chords I used to practise in my bedroom with the lights turned off so I could learn to play chords without having to constantly watch the fretboard. Had my first formal lessons about two years ago and I'm still hooked and always trying to learn something new.
I'm still in touch with my old mate who gave me the guitar but the tyranny of distance means we see each other only once every couple of years. When we do get together we play a few songs, drink too much beer, and I tell him to have his old guitar back but he won't accept. He's happy to know it's in good hands.
Great thread Karen.....it's brought some memories back to me :) |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Mom - it was something that she started doing as an adult and was very supportive and encouraging when I also wanted to try it. |
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Location: Michigan | It has to Lanaki for me. He encouraged me last year to stop eating meat and become a guitar player after a brutal surgery that I had.He was very supportive to me in a time of extreme
un-comfortability and kept me off my ass while I was healing telling me to stay standing while playing the guitar.Thanks Lanaki.GWB |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | My Father for Teaching me How to Hear Differences,and Building soundsystems and starting on Violin,my Mother for the Guitar,my recorder playing Spouse for inspiration..my eldest Son for Forcing me to keep on playing those wretched things...
Vic :cool: |
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Location: big island | wow GWB...i don't know what to say. "thanks, i think" is all i can come up with :cool: |
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Location: East Tennessee | Wow! What great stories.
I would have to say both of my parents. My mom for wanting me to play some kind of musical instrument. My Dad for giving the interest in guitars. He had an old Sears guitar,(wish I still had it). Let me start paying on it.
Thanks Karen for starting this thread. :cool: |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Hootie??? Not THAT HOOTIE INGRAM , but "the real Hootie" was head coach at Clemson in the early 70's and my bro's friends started calling him Hootie. So it's all I've called him for 35 years. |
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Location: Tennessee | For me, it was really when I was about 20 and living in Malibu. I was befriended by a lonely recluse named Neil who kind of walked me through a lot of stuff he was into ... mostly minor keys. I was sort of drowning in self-doubt about my abilities and he showed me that real simple stuff can often be the most powerful, and it's all about the heart you put behind what you're doing. In other words, you don't have to be technically great to be considered great. One note can go a long way.
Of course, I still wish I could be technically great and there are times I continue to drown in self-doubt. :cool: |
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Location: ranson,wva | i grew up around music,my stepmothers father and brothers all played bluegrass and some delta blues. i started playing mandolin about the age 12 but i didnt take the lessons verry long because my fingers were too big for the fretboard.
10yrs latter i decided to learn guitar.no lessons,self taught. i must say that after meeting some of you at the 06 nor'easter gathering i have pushed my self to be a better player. the most influential person in my life was my grandmother..she taught me to never quit....i live true to those words......great thread karen........jason |
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Location: Michigan | For me it would probably be my parents, my dad for giving me a great starter guitar which i still have (alvarez electric) and my mom for always supporting me. after them, my wife, who inspires me everyday with her simple style and use of almost any instrument she plays (she just serves the song with it, no wasted notes). Finally Bvince for giving me the opportunity to use what had been stagnating in me for a while, and helping me to understand the Purpose of music, also he got me interested in ovations. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | When I was six or seven I chopped off my ring finger at the top knuckle...(it was my sister's fault lol)...it was pretty gory..lots of blood and I could see the bone.
My mum drove me to hospital and the doctors told her they would have to amputate the finger. I was in the surgery and she was out in the waiting room and I heard the scream...."noooo, he'll never play the violin."
Anyway, some 42 stitches later and plenty of tape, the doctors managed to save my finger. It still works pretty good but I never did learn the violin. Wouldn't mind trying it now. |
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Location: North Carolina | Edward Lincoln Chapman, who was playing songs that I had heard on the radio. I hadn't known that real people could actually do that. So I figured, why not me? Thanks, Neddy. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I don't want to be a wet blanket on this thread, but I still want to participate so....
"the person (or perhaps people) whose encouragement helped you along your journey as a guitar player."
Me. |
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Location: GA USA | Or your sidekick, Mini-me. |
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Giving credit where credit is due...
