An enjoyable student at Guitar Center today!

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This kid may have an ear comparable to mine! He is about 10-years-old and has been my guitar student for about four months. Recently , he decided guitar wasn't enough, so Santa bought him a bass guitar. Then, last week, he appeared for his lesson with a banjo in his hands. He's at that age where I can teach him the Happy Birthday Song and he'll be happy, but he loves Nirvana. Today, he wanted to play Nirvana on his banjo, a bluegrass instrument. His dad had bought him a Nirvana songbook, and together we figured out how to play Come As You Are on guitar and banjo. By the end of the lesson, we had a nice version ready and performed it for his dad and a couple of my coworkers. He even "backed off" and let me take a lead on guitar! Imagine this song played well on banjo and acoustic guitar by a grumpy old man (me) and a 10-year-old student barely big enough to hold and play a full-sized banjo (him). There's an element of humor to it, but I'm serious when I say this kid has some "dangerous" talent and could go far in music if he chooses to. @Vandana7, if you want to get rich, keep an eye on this kid and volunteer to edit whatever slides he chooses. Photo is of my "bad ass" acoustic Collings OM-1. I don't have a (loaded) gun.