About 5 yrs ago we bought our kids an acoustic guitar. I’d love to tell you that they picked it right up and started playing beautiful music, but the truth is they hardly played the thing. To start with, we had no idea how to tune it. The kids twanged away for a few days and very quickly lost interest.

This guitar became many things over the next few years. Some days it was a sword chasing the kids around the room, weilded by the valiant prince known better to me as my oldest son. Some days it was a sea creature, being slayen by pirates as it got tossed around, case and all, from floor to couch and back to floor again.

I have rescued that guitar from all sorts of predicaments. For some reason this guitar did not want to die, it had an important lesson to teach us that we were not aware of till very recently.

This lesson came to us as a friend request on facebook. It turns out that my childhood family friend, Lane Arndt started teaching guitar lessons right here in Edmonton. He is the creator and cheif instructor of Forward Momentum Music. As his site loaded and his music began to play, my wife looked over at me and said what are you listening to, I love it. I showed her his site and some photos of Lane proudly hanging his sign outside his new business at 10702-124st.

We knew at that very moment that this guitar that had lasted through all these battles, was about to suit up and go to war. My oldest’s son and his guitar would soon be in lessons with Lane. Within five 1/2hour sessions my son had developped a genuine interest in playing the guitar. I don’t think I would have been able to beat that into him, no matter how much I tried. It was important for him to spend time with someone that had a genuine love for this stringed instument.

So thanx Lane for introducing my son to the world of music, I am confident that he will carry this interest with him through his entire life.

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