The Edge
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
The Beginning of My Connection to Music
The first instrument I ever tried to play would have been piano one. Didn't go so great because I had a very good ear, but I kind of music dyslexia. So there's no chance I was ever going to be able to read music nearly as easily as hear it and copy. But definitely early on, it stopped me from understanding notation or really finding my way into thatbecause I just didn't get it. And probably around 13, my brother was given a cheap little acoustic guitar and the two of us learned basic chords, just open chords just so we could sing and play. That was the beginning of when I got really interested in learning an instrument.
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