Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐
RE: https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/116467573312988627
Ellen is awesome, so I'm excited for her debut album! She makes me wonder how different my life might have been, if my parents didn't push me into classical piano. I didn't start playing bass until I was about 25.
Steve's Place
@gcvsa My father wanted a doctor, lawyer or accountant. My mother taught music, but I had to swipe her guitar (a Christmas gift from my father) to start teaching myself. She played it maybe once or twice, then went back to the piano. I played a bit of bass for some 4-track recordings, but I can't say I was really playing the bass. More like, lead guitar on bass. I didn't get the feel until years later. She is so gifted, and fortunate she has the family supporting her in every possible way they can. I can't wait to hear it!
Steve's Place
@gcvsa Early teens here. Self-taught on guitar, except after I was playing in bands, I took a few jazz guitar lessons from an instructor who taught, I think, Jorma some jazz. It found its way into my songwriting. I was a first-chair violinist in HS, and had some classical piano training. It wasn't until I was in a band in the 8th grade, as a singer, in a band with a guitarist, Johnny Mahan, who showed me how he was playing lead. When I realized it was the violin strings backwards, I became a lead guitarist, too, lol.
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐
@steter My father's cousin is Michael Dadap, a classical guitarist and composer, who is married to Yeou-Cheng Ma, who is the elder sister of a cellist you might have heard of, Yo-Yo Ma.
Yeou-Cheng is herself a physician (a pediatrician) and violinist. Their daughter Laura is also a musician (and a bassist!), but she probably spends more of her time running the family hot sauce business, now (Djablo Filipino Hot Sauce).
I didn't pick up guitar until my late teens, totally self-taught.
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐
@steter My father was a physician (MD) who also played chess, classical guitar, and piano. My mother was a nurse (RN), who didn't play any instruments, but who loved classical music. I started classical piano lessions at age 5.
I remember that one of my greatest musical regrest was when my piano teacher asked me at age 7-8 or so, if I wanted to study classical or jazz. Not knowing anything about jazz, and knowing my mother liked classical, I chose classical.
I should have chosen jazz.
GNU social JP is a social network, courtesy of GNU social JP管理人. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.2-dev, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All GNU social JP content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.