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School of Rock for First Grade

My daughter's first grade teacher invited me in this afternoon to play the guitars I've made and a couple that my daughter has helped put together.

I suggested that I have a couple acoustics, but the kids might like it better if I brought an amplifier with me. Heh, heh. The teacher agreed. . .

Let's see how it goes. Cold Cereal Blues is getting it's Bad Finger CBG debut on the lawn at the elementary school today.

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Comment by wes carl on June 20, 2012 at 10:11am: Love it Ed - Good on you *****

Comment by ED (Bad Finger) on June 20, 2012 at 9:33am: The kids having a great time was more than enough for it to be worthwhile. The note from the teacher sent it over the top for me. What a great time and I'm happy it was appreciated by all.

I got my first round of applause and performed a couple verses of Cold Cereal Blues. Fun, fun, fun.

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 20, 2012 at 6:44am: Bad,

That kind of feedback is what makes it all worthwhile. Good on yer.

Comment by ED (Bad Finger) on June 18, 2012 at 8:26pm: Thanks Uncle John.

Today was also camp out day so I went in early to set up our big tent for the class.

I got this nice note from the teacher:

Thank you very, very much for everything you did today. The kids LOVED the tent and sharing your guitars was a special added bonus for us all. You may have just lit a flame under a budding musician. You have touched their lives and for that I am extremely grateful.

Thank you for helping to make one of our last days together as a class memorable.

Comment by Uncle John on June 18, 2012 at 6:00pm: This is cool as a two headed cat. Good on you, Mr. ED.

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 18, 2012 at 4:46pm: Dulci-jos. Easier to build. Ask the class to each bring in their own clean tin can

Comment by ED (Bad Finger) on June 18, 2012 at 4:41pm: The teachers all freaked out when I let the guitars get passed around at the end. I could have cared less if they came back as a combination of matchsticks and toothpicks. I'm still singing a happy tune in my head.

The music teacher couldn't make it due to a class scheduled at the same time, but she wants to do dulcimer music with her 5th graders next year. So I guess I'm going to have to learn how to build a dulcimer or dozen. I bet we could make a quick build demo by having pre-strung necks and boxes and just compare the sound of the stick alone then screwed down to the box.

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on June 18, 2012 at 4:37pm: Way to go, Bad! Keepin' it real in school...did the same thing with 5th grade class a few years ago. It is truly a lot of fun. Your daughter just made a fantastic memory.

Comment by South Paw,Davey on June 18, 2012 at 1:17pm: A new genertion.Thats cool ;-)

Comment by ED (Bad Finger) on June 18, 2012 at 12:48pm: Just got back. That was freakin' awesome. We ended the session with a 10 minute kid-made blues song. I played a riff then picked a kid to stand up and give it a line. Another riff and another line. That was great and everyone had a bunch of fun.