Do you ever catch yourself really excited over the littlest things - I find myself constantly in this state. Last night my excitement was courtesy of Jimi Hendrix & the electric guitar. Why?
Yesterday evening we watched the movie "The Tooth Fairy" - which actually turned out to be pretty cute. In any event, in the movie there is a little boy who LOVES to play electric guitar and is dang good at it too. Morgan was mesmerized from the word go. To this point she has had her little acoustic stella 6-string that she plays around with, but never has she touched or seen for that matter an electric guitar.
She asked to watch a scene where the boy plays over and over... AND Then... to seek out more of this phenomenal music. So I played Jimi for her and then we moved on to some acoustic friends like Dave Matthews (who is phenomenal) and some slightly obscure but still insanely talented Decemberists...
I was in heaven - because frankly I LOVE music. I kind of always thought everyone LOVED music - but have come to find some like it, some may even love it, but it's a smaller group of those who LOVE it. And, I was way excited to share it with her (although I think she is still in debate over the Decemberists - ah well, in time my dear child - in time).
If she keeps on course you all may very well see Morgan playing a guitar (style TBD) in the future - she is determined to take lessons, but we have to wait. Chatted with a friend and he says - 8 or up. Before that their fingers are not developed enough to work with the guitar - so keep on developing fingers, in the mean time we'll keep the flame lit and the auditory senses filled.
