We went with the Electric. Free lessons at Guitarlessons.com.
The electric is quieter. Volume control makes it so you cannot hear it.
The biggest problem I had was that the wife took the guitar and started playing it.
I did manage to get in a little practice with the scales today.
I made a deal with my son. Whoever plays the best gets the guitar. He is learning.
Life gets in the way for him sometimes , like school tomorrow so he has to stop sometime.
I just hope there is not a burn out period coming up and he forgets about it. I will need to challenge him with it sometime.
If he sees me doing something, he will want to copy it. My problem is fat fingers.I cannot manage to just press one string at a time for some reason. I am just playing one note at a time right now. Scales. I know I will need them anyway.
Ken

Meet some folks from a big family a few years back. The gal I met first was an incredible singer and piano player, she did sessions here in Nashville and sang with her very talented husband. I later found out the the rule in their large family was you could not touch the piano... unless you were going to take 5 years of lessons. Every kid did and today they are all amazing musicians and music producers

Oh and electric is probably a good choice. It's easier on the fingers, if the strings are set right
Ooo building up those calluses on your fingers is the hard part


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Started here aged 10 with ukulele banjo. Progressed to 5 String Folk Banjo, 6 & 12 string Acoustic & Classical guitars. Classical guitar teacher was a RADA student, earning cash to pay for her tuition. Had a nice line in fishnet stockings. Only reason why I kept up with it. However did have the "distinction" of pub gigging on the banjo with Tim Hart & Maddy Prior of SteeleyeSpan in their student days. 

Mark was in the audience in the front row

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No but they do play silly beggers, does that count ?



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Maybe after either me or Ray learn how to play something, we can record it and make a cartoon with it.
That would be funny. either me as an elephant or Ray as a gazelle.
Ken

Ray came in from the school family day yesterday and put on his electric Guitar. I tuned it for him and showed him the video lessons and then he practiced. He didn't want to stop for Dinner. This morning he woke up and wanted to practice before Breakfast.
Right now he practices until his fingers hurt and then stops. Guess I need some ear plugs.
Ken

After a few weeks. Ray is still practicing as long as Claudette ( his cousin) is here to practice with him. He wants her to show him everything even though she is getting it off the internet. I have a complete set of lessons for him online but he doesn't want to watch those.
I am following the lessons online and can now figure out the melody to some Christmas Carols. I am also learning to play the major scales though sometimes I am on a different one that I think.
We are coming along. Just wish Ray would open up a bit more about learning. I found out that he wanted to play at the Christmas party on the 18th but has decided to just dance with some of his friends. He loves music.
Ken

Hoping he'll stay with it..as I may have stated, I took some banjo lessons when I was young but really wanted to play electric bass...the folks wouldn't spring for that so I stayed with banjo for a year or so but later got a cheap guitar and tuned it low Got interested in guitar in college and still mess around just doing my own thing making up my own songs. I'm not very good but I have fun with it.

So as I said hope he stays with it...it's a great skill to have throughout life ya know!!!

Did this little ditty for the family this Thanksgiving. We all get together near a lake home my in-laws have called Rocky-Top hence the name...





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Very nice.

Loved it when the brown chook looked @ the cam, Mark. Noticed the sparrow on roof, too.

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