I played four instruments when I was younger. My husband was forced to play the violin when he wanted to play sax, and didn't stick with the violin for very long. So when our son persisted on wanting to look at electric basses because he played one at a friend's house and really liked it-we didn't say no.
We arrived at Music Villa knowing little to nothing about basses. I had picked one up for approximately a year several years ago but never played it outside my bedroom, no money = no lessons, no place to play it.
The shop guys showed us a few nice entry level basses that our son could start with and introduced us to Eddie T., a bass player for seven different bands in the area. Eddie was able to pick out the best of the entry level basses and offered to give us a free first lesson if we purchased the bass that day. We already had an agreement with our son that we would split the cost between him and ourselves if bass was what he really wanted to play. The hope being that if he also sunk $150 into the guitar and amp costs that the equipment wouldn't sit in the corner and collect dust.
It worked. The next morning before he even came out of his room we heard the strumming of his bass. We called up Eddie T. and have been having once a week lessons ever since. He's learning how to play different songs, fingering exercises, and will soon start on scales and actually reading music instead of tabs. Pretty soon we'll enroll him in Music Villa's Performance Academy for eight weeks of Rock Camp.
What this stepmom knows right now, it's incredible to have an instrument in the house that the child plays willingly, mostly on his own, though sometimes having to be prompted to "practice."
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