Today I ran into Victor Wooten. He’s a musical genius, an innovator, and an educator. Take 5 to watch him teach you a few things:
This I got to put his words into practice…I mean, into PLAY! I usually pull my guitar out to run through the songs for the upcoming weekend, hiding away from little fingers that want to strum, avoiding the other music going on in the house. But not tonight.
I let Charlie strum to his heart was content. I even sang some silly made-up song for him to celebrate his running around without pants! Then Levi walked in from work and wanted to YouTube a song for his Spanish class. So we did. And it’s a beautiful song:
We found a chord chart for the song, played along, then I played it for Levi to sing. That lead us down the road of some Sister Hazel, Deep Blue Something, Five For Fighting, and Del Amitri. It was like a 90’s tv show happening in my living room. All that was missing was the cast of Friends. But it was one of the most fun nights that I’ve spent in a long time.
Making music is fun. Making memories is even better.
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