My older brother has been if not a bad influence an influence of course. I cannot thank him enough today for having taken up the guitar and left it within a year. Decades later when I have established my self as a private guitar teacher I look back at his motivations to learn and leave the instrument and I notice that there is a fundamental ingredient that set us apart - passion for the art. Back in the 70's, my dad would buy a long play record from a local music store in Mumbai and would spend the following Sunday morning listening to it along with me. I grew up to swing, rock and roll, surf , jazz and top of the pops from Briton and America. I sure got the swing - to put it simply. So when I started my musical journey at 12, I impulsively new how to strum chords in most standard time signatures, keep timing and visualize hand movements to rhythmic accents. But I guess the ability came from the years of careful listening to different types of music, that nurtured the body lingo.

Early music adoption is one of the key ingredients for making kids appreciate and pick up this art skill. ...More on this later.