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The shop where I work has various teaching and practice rooms for hire. A woman brought in a group of boys to use the practice room because they were going to form a band. They were all about 10 years old. As I set up the drum kit for them it became apparent that most of them hadn't played an instrument before. I was asked if they could borrow a bass guitar and when I returned with the instrument I said "Ok who's in charge?" , one boy replied "that will be joe , he's gone to get some drum sticks".
"No , I meant who's playing bass? If you play bass you're in charge!"
The boy said "Wow , that's me!" and took the bass.
As I left I heard him say "Right , let's have a rule -nobody plays anything unless I say so....."

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[quote name='Dom in Somerset' timestamp='1462007056' post='3039478']
The shop where I work has various teaching and practice rooms for hire. A woman brought in a group of boys to use the practice room because they were going to form a band. They were all about 10 years old. As I set up the drum kit for them it became apparent that most of them hadn't played an instrument before. I was asked if they could borrow a bass guitar and when I returned with the instrument I said "Ok who's in charge?" , one boy replied "that will be joe , he's gone to get some drum sticks".
"No , I meant who's playing bass? If you play bass you're in charge!"
The boy said "Wow , that's me!" and took the bass.
As I left I heard him say "Right , let's have a rule -nobody plays anything unless I say so....."
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10 year's old,that's an ideal age to get into playing music. I think I was 11 or 12.

At that age you don't over think anything. It's as simple as "I'm going to play this thing" and you just do it.

Blue

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True - it's amazing the number of students of a similar age I've seen walk in to a lesson and pull out some amazing riffs and chops.

Turns out nobody had told them it was supposed to be difficult!

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A few years back my band recorded a CD which was titled Lack of Discipline. A school teacher friend of mine took a copy in to let her class of 9 year olds have a listen and a group of 3 boys decided to form a band right then and there, and again despite never having played an instrument they already had a name for their first song - Lack of Imagination! :)

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