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gennation
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gennation
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06/13/2005 10:24 pm
Hey guys, thanks for checking it out. And, thanks for the kind words. He kid amazes me. I'm going to get some of him doing AC/DC shortly too. He can nail Agnus.

It was about a year ago that he watch School Of Rock. The next he came down to my music room and said, "dad do you know how to play Smoke On The RIVER?" I had all I could do to stop laughing. I said, "first of all it's Smoke On The WATER". lol

He practices all the time, he watches videos of Steve, and other lesson type videos on the Internet, plus gets a lot of tab. But, he does practice his butt off. I'm curious to see how he transforms this summer.

I've been teaching him stuff as he wants to learn and he just takes it from there. I've been trying to more formal type lessons to get him ready for jazz band in high school, but he's got another year and a half before that happens. But, I show him chords, chord building, scales, and how scales work against chords. But, he works it on his own. I'm pretty proud of him.

He plays in a band with Juniors in High School right now, and he just got out of 7th grade, man!!! ANd, yes I keep my eye on them all ;)

I took him to see Steve Vai back in April, it was a great experience for both of us.

And, yes it has been a great bonding experience, hopefully it last through his HS years :)

Thanks again.
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