Baby Guitar Hero
Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Sarah Moore
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So my husband has decided Isaac will be a musician like him. Since our son cannot talk yet, he does not get a say in the matter, and I truly hope for both their sakes that Isaac is not tone deaf like his mom! I cannot carry a tune, but luckily that doesn’t stop me from making a complete fool out of myself singing songs to him (:

Look at that concentration!
Some background info: Chris used to play in a local band for years and still writes and plays his own music. He can play a song after hearing it just once, which is pretty neat. There is also a guitar collection in our living room, which I know will be troublesome when Isaac begins to crawl, but for now the precious instruments are safe, which brings me to my next point. If anyone touches the guitars, Chris throws a fit. For example, if I am cleaning and accidentally nudge one or if one of the dogs whacks one with an enthusiastic tail, get ready to hear it from the musician of the house!
This is why I wasn’t surprised when Chris wanted to teach Isaac to play the guitar, but when he sat him down at 6 months I was thinking disaster time! My mom held him and I watched as slobbery little baby hands grabbed at the strings, smearing all over the wood, but Chris just gritted his teeth and smiled! What?! Well, it seems that Daddy does have some patience when it comes to his guitars.
After all, Isaac’s middle name is Clapton, after Chris’s favorite guitar hero, Eric Clapton, so we’ll see if he inherited the musician gene or the “please don’t ever sing in public” gene…

First lesson with Daddy and Grandma









