Today was a special day.
Sticking with family tradition we (mom, dad and Sam) woke up Jeffrey by singing happy birthday and giving him his birthday gifts.
Even more unique was that we got Jeff a candy apple red bass guitar as he had been hinting around lately that he wanted to play the bass in a band with Sam. Jeff has had music in his past. He played piano for 2 1/2 years or so and was quite accomplished but in a different way than Sam. He was more classical and technical compared to Sam's style.
Jeff also played tuba for a couple years as a 4th and 5th grader and was quite good at it as well. But, wow, what a pain to transport back and forth to school.
Anyway, Jeff has exposure to music and knows the low notes that he'd need to play with the bass guitar and seems to have the desire to play. We can even hook it up to the amp we already have so we are good to go there.
One really neat thing is how we sang this morning. Sam figured out quickly how to play "Happy Birthday" and we carted the amp up to Jeff's room and hooked up the bass guitar and Sam accompanied us in our song.
Jeff admitted he was surprised and didn't expect what we got him so we - as parents - were pleased with ourselves and that Sam was able to keep a secret. Sam has also promised/volunteered to teach Jeff how to play the bass parts in his compositions.
Let's hope this is another piece of what will be the Packard Brothers Band! (OK, the boys won't go with this name but as of this writing there isn't any official name so this will do until then.)
Until we write again!
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