10-27-2011, 10:42 PM
My Dad is a bluegrass banjo nut. He's damn good at it too. When my brother and I were in preschool, he was teaching us how to play guitar and bass so that we could be his carry-on bluegrass band. My point is the effect of the home tutorial is explicitly tempered by the parent's fervency. Had my father bought a guitar and gave it to me, I think I would have rode it like a pony. He was tricky enough (and fervent enough) to make me want (and beg for) a guitar. Now I'm glad he did.