I agree goldengirl, I was not trying to be negative I just wanted to point out that ear training or ear straining can start at a very young age...
I know of a couple of people (two actually...) who has been teaching their kids guitar from around 3 years old. I really dont think that this is very helpfull to the childs guitar playing, but if the teacher is someone like a parent with a lot of patience it will strengthen the ties between the two. The attention span of a three year old is not such that they will learn any theory or anything substantial anyway. It must ofcourse be fun as well and the child needs to want to do it.
My son is 19 months old, keeps near perfect timming while clapping his hands and loves to play his toy guitar... He takes me by the hand everyday when I come home and tkaes me to my guitar. I then have to play a song or two for him before he is content and we can play...He fiddles with my guitars all the time, and we have decided to buy him a strat copy of about 1/2 size when he turns three, if he is still interrested in playing.
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