pat loughery

Interested in getting your kids interested in playing music?  Here’s a great site and link.

So you moms and dads, aunts and uncles, and grandparents reading this, relax. Let the kids come to the music when it is fun for them to do so. Make it available, but don’t push. Later on in high school I returned to the guitar, now back in California and had a pretty successful surf band, the “Chevelles.” I made a very comfortable living for several decades, playing during college, and as my sole profession after ending my “drafted” participation in the US Army in 1971. Music was never my LIFE, even then. It was an important part and my sole profession, but there were, and continue to be, many other interests. I always had time to play baseball, backpack, ski, surf, read, write, experiment with computers, play golf, table tennis competitively, and many other things I found and still find rewarding, including writing this magazine. There are those disciplined few that become true masters of music from a very early age but I neither envy them nor regret my diversity of interests. The fact is, music is a human contribution to the world and I see great difficulty in expressing this most human endeavor creatively, from the limiting experience of any single point of view.

via Children and Music, learning Guitar at an early age.