Bradley B.

I taught myself how to read and understand "tabs" from guitar tab websites and learned how to play songs from the bands that I liked to listen to.

I started with classical guitar lessons, learning how to read notes on staff music sheets. Later I went in to orchestra and played the stand up bass and furthered my knowledge of sheet music. I have always had a one on one lesson with a music teacher. Later in high school, my lessons turned in to somewhat of a jam session with my teacher, not learning notes on paper, but learning the foundation of all music that is blues. He taught me 12 bar blues, major and minor scales, relative major and minor scales and also the minor pentatonic scale.

From 2008 to about '13 or '14, I was playing in a band and we would have at least one show every weekend playing various bars and other types of venues. We were a 5 piece band but later it was just the four of us and we were known as Jimmy Dick and the Love Affair. Towards the end of our time together, we had a regular paying gig every Saturday.

The teacher that had been teaching me the blues in high school, i owe most of what I learned to him. Not only did he teach me so much during that time as his student, he later employed me at his studio to teach beginner and intermediate students on a one on one 30 min lesson.