I thought Braden's guitar teacher would think I was a fruit loop because I showed up with my camera in hand to capture the first moments of him learning how to strum that awesome guitar is great grandparents got him, but he actually thought it was pretty cool to capture the moment on film :) Braden's first lesson was pretty simple. They went over the "anatomy" of the guitar and the lingo necessary for Braden to know in order to understand what Mr. Nathan was teaching him. Then they went over the strings and all the names of the chords, and lastly he taught him a short song to learn for his his lesson next week. Braden is to practice every evening for 15 minutes a night at the least. Mr. Nathan says that it is important that Braden doesn't get frustrated with the guitar and practicing, so it is best to just "make" him sit with it for 15 minutes a night, and if Braden wants more than to support him being on it as long as he wants too. Braden's favorite part of the "homework" given by Mr. Nathan...memorizing all the parts of the guitar, and the song he taught him...is his assignment to "rock OUT and play all sorts of silly stuff on the guitar to find sounds he likes." I told Mr. Nathan that I thought we (mom and dad) need to invest in some headphones for that electric guitar - ha! Braden practiced for about an hour tonight, but that is all the time we had with our busy Thursday night with Boy Scouts. He just loves it, and I hope that he continues to think it is as awesome as he does right now! If all else fails, I think Josh would take over the lessons...last night he learned the song on Braden's homework list, and played on the guitar for about 45 minutes himself - ha!
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