“I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.” SchoolSimpleTaughtGrewBandGrew UpHigh SchoolRhythmPianoChordsAunt Author:Cristin Milioti
“I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.” SelfSchoolTaughtCollegeBandHigh SchoolSelf TaughtConservatory Author:Tim Heidecker
“My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.” StillsPlayShowsUsedPracticePlayerTaughtDadBandMy DadSpotsThis DayRehearsalBassMichiganBass PlayersPlaying Bass Author:Mayer Hawthorne
“Punk can be a mental ghetto. People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born again Christians and have stupid three hour conversation about things like, which band is a sellout and is straight edge cool or un-cool and it's just completely idiotic. So punk has taught me the aesthetic of the outsider, which is great, but it's also taught me not to get involved in petty little cults.” PeopleLittlesChristianThreeBornHoursStupidTaughtInvolvedBandConversationEdgesAestheticPunkOutsidersCultPettyGet InvolvedGhettoBorn AgainIdioticStraight Edge Author:Jesse Michaels
“I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.” PeopleSelfSchoolGuyTeacherGroupsTaughtBandHigh SchoolProducersJailGraduatesSelf Taught Author:Billy Joel
“I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in Spain one year. I can do jumps too. I used to go to a club in Heathrow, but I don't do it any more, as it's given me a bad back. I was brought up in Poole, Dorset, so I've always loved watersports.” YearsI CanUsedGivenWaterCan DoFiveTaughtBandClubsSpain1960sSkisDaveSkiingWater Skiing Author:Tony Blackburn
“My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.” WayWellsPlayBornPlayerTaughtDadBandLateMusicianStandardsAreasJazzMy DadCome UpRadioActiveFantasticPianoTunesBostonTrumpets Author:Chick Corea
“As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson and Walter Blanning. I taught them when they were in high school, and now they teach me.I'll regularly call Ali and say, "Man, can you break this rhythm down for me?" Or Carlos was actually our music director in Cuba, and he's been instrumental in a lot of my education, and I started to develop a saying with them, because they tease me all the time - you get older, you have that familiar relationship - I say, "You have to follow your young leadership, too."” MenSchoolYoungTeachBreakExampleTaughtBandDirectorsMembersHigh SchoolFamiliarRhythmOrchestraCubaTeaseTease Me Author:Wynton Marsalis
“My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.” WaySelfEnoughPlayUseBigsSongReadingDifficultLinesMorningTroubleTaughtBandFingersTechniqueRanThemeFlatsGood EnoughBassSelf TaughtSnowfallFingerboard Author:Bill Crow
“My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.” EndsPlaySchoolOrderFoundRecordsTeacherChildhoodTaughtBandPaperHigh SchoolJazzWestRadioBuyingShopsPrintAlsRoutesButchersSaxophoneArmstrongAfter SchoolMusic TeacherWest EndJazz Records Author:Bill Crow
“My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.” WritingPlaySongStuffTaughtBrotherDadBandGuitarMy DadPianoGradesAcousticsOlder Brother Author:Conor Oberst
“My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted.” PeopleYearsPlayWantedSchoolNightSongTeacherPiecesTaughtGrewBandGrew UpHigh SchoolMusicalOilNineBackgroundsTexasElitesTimingTraveledOutstandingBucksSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:Carl Gardner
“Sometimes I would go on Sundays and play with Doc Cheatham. I was also playing in a band of teenagers led by Don Sickler called Young Sounds, and The McDonald's Big Band led by Rich De Rosa and Justin Di Cioccio. All those guys were great educators and musicians and taught me a lot! Simultaneous to all this, another one of my musical fathers came into my life, Eddie Locke.” SometimesPlayBigsYoungGuyFatherSoundRichTaughtGoes OnBandMusicianMusicalTeenagerSundayEducatorMcdonaldsJustinRosaSimultaneous Author:Jon Gordon