Do any of you Seniors play a musical instrument? I was wondering if we had a band, what would be in

I used to play the piano, organ, and accordion.

Did you ever take lessons or play by ear?

Know how to sing? Anybody musical?

Do any of you Seniors play a musical instrument? I was wondering if we had a band, what would be in it?palace theatre

I play by ear, read music and play tableture. I play a 5-string banjo, guitar, keyboards, fiddle, bass fiddle and a little accordion. I started fooling around on my brothers accordion. I self taught myself to play the key boards. I took about six months of guitar when I was 10. I didn't want to play Camptown Races. I wanted to rock and play music like Jerry Lee and Elllllllvis. My best friend in middle school played great guitar. He showed me a lot of things and the rest I would spend hours listening to 45 rpm records to learn the riffs.

I would slow them down to 33 rpm to learn the notes. I would tune my guitar to match the record. Then after I learned the song like that I would re-tune to proper key. There isn't any telling how many black diamond strings I broke by doing that. There was a drug store about a mile or so from my house that I could walk to that sold Black Diamond Strings.

Then about twenty five years ago I picked up a Bass Fiddle to help a friend out who played with a band. They lost their Bass player and it was around Derby time here and they had some small parties to play. I had played bass guitar along with the guitar. It isn't hard to do if you know you frets on a guitar's bass strings. That is also how I took up the banjo. I bought one about 45 years ago to play. It was a cheap Kay but I learned how to play. I had always wanted to learn to pick the 5-string but never stayed with it long enough to really learn. That changed when I started filling in on bass for the bluegrass band. All I could hear in my head was that driving banjo. They had a guy who had grown up on a banjo. He couldn't do much else but his fingers knew that banjo! I took some lessons from Jim Smoke of the Cumberland's. I also took a few lessons from Steve Cooley who at that time was picking with the Dillard's of Andy Griffith fame. (It really wasn't lessons. He would tab out songs and I would learn the rolls and the song.) The Dillard brothers had had a falling out and Steve played with them for over a year. I was able to transfer my knowledge of the guitar to the banjo. Once I made that connection my playing improved. It only took me about twelve years before I became proficient enough to go to a festival and be able to walk around and play with the different jams.

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