I didn’t think much of it at the time, I wasn’t really interested in Ace of Base-or music in general for that matter-as a kid, but when I started to learn guitar in 1999 I realised how what he did took skill and practice. Probably Ace of Base or something (it was 1993 after all). He would keep plugging away until he got the keyboard playing the exact same melody to some song that was on the radio at the time. He would simply noodle around pressing keys, trying to work out the melody to a song he knew.
This exercise was wonderful in helping him, and me, develop as a musician. No one taught him any chords, or scales, or songs, but he would instead do something that has stuck with me to this day. At least, not in the conventional sense anyway.
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Thing is though, he didn’t know how to play anything properly. Personally, I wanted to play football or play fight or something at that age, but Ian enjoyed just playing the keyboard sometimes. He would grab a keyboard here and there (belonging to one of our sisters) and would sit there playing a game on it for what seemed to be, to me, hours on end. He had not had proper music lessons but he had always been keen about it.
Ian was two years younger than me, and like my little brother. Although he wasn’t a formally taught musician, he used to play this game that at the time I thought was a bit silly but, as a full-time musician nowadays, I know now is incredibly useful. Recently, I was thinking about an old friend I had back when I was a kid. Paul, George & John by Omroepvereniging VARA, licensed under (CC BY-SA 3.0 NL)
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