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Guitar & Taekwondo

After watching and hearing one of our church worship team guitar players play a cool guitar part, Luke kept talking about wanting to play the guitar. One Sunday in the spring I approached the guitar player, Mich, who is a deacon in the church, plays guitar on the worship team, and father of 4. He has never given lessons, but said he was willing. We started lessons in the summer and Luke has begun to play a few songs. It is a hard process and Luke was learning chords. Mich would meet anywhere from every other week to once a month. Not ideal for keeping up, but we were happy he was helping. Mich is very kind and good with Luke. They talk tractors, farming and aircraft carriers. Mich told Luke about his start in the Navy when he picked up a guitar and learned to play. He doesn't read music, but plays well. He loaned Luke his first guitar and he has been using it instead of his youth sized one. Luke learned to play "Amazing Grace" chords and tabs and is learning to sing and play. That is a very hard thing and takes some coordination! He is doing so good and I love to hear him play. He recently learned a strumming pattern and is getting his chords down really well. It will be fun when he can sing and play a whole song.
In September, Luke started back to taekwondo after taking the summer off. This month he tested from his brown belt to a brown with black stripe.

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