Many of my hobbies and interests fall into the same category as most other guys which is sports. I grew up around basketball players since my dad was a coach and am even named after a Duke basketball player (Quin Snyder). I'm still involved in baseball and love every bit of it but, during my freshmen of high school I discovered something that I new was going to stick with me until the day that I die. I got my first taste of the six string guitar. I was with my cousin for the day because I had nowhere else to stay until my parents got home to unlock the door to the house that I left my key in fortunately! My aunt had been talking to her son, my cousin, about taking guitar lessons and finally set up a time to go. So as I tagged along into the music store to watch the lesson with everybody else the teacher started showing off a little bit of his talent and played stuff that I thought only the famous musicians could take on. I asked him to play several songs before he started teaching. As the lesson progressed my attention was fixed on every little detail that this guy was saying and when the lesson was over i'd already made up my mind about two    things. One I was going to learn to play the guitar well and two if this guy could play this stuff then I sure as heck could. Ever since that day I have been playing. Anytime little window of time I have throughout my schedule am playing and usually yelled at to get going on more important tasks such as: homework,  chores, going to bed, eating dinner, you name it. Since started playing I feel like watching t.v. is the biggest waste of time there is in a persons day. Anytime I can I encourage people to start playing even if it's tough at first. To me it's a way to express feelings and take your mind off everything thats going on around you. Blues music, specifically, falls into this category because of the freedom to improvise with just about any beat there is on the drums. I've been deciphering riffs and licks of many different artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, and John mayer

This post was supposed to be the first one but was moved when I went back to edit a few mistakes.

Apologies,

Quin