Word: self-taught
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...against that.”Little by little, discipline has crept into his music. When he decided to pursue music as a career, Redman realized that it was time to fill the holes in his technique and started to buckle down. Until that point, Redman had been almost entirely self-taught. He grew up in Berkeley, Calif. with his mother, a dancer named Renee Shedroff. His father, though, was legendary jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman.Dewey was more a musical influence on Redman than a parental influence. Redman grew up listening to his records and seeing his father’s gigs...
...pair of jeans, Hogue successfully parlayed his way into one of the country’s most highly esteemed universities and the homes of some of the wealthiest Americans, before eventually being caught and sentenced to a cell block in Arizona.In 1988, Hogue enrolled at Princeton as a self-taught ranch hand from Utah named Alexi Indris-Santana. While at Princeton, Hogue excelled at track, obtained outstanding grades, and joined the elite Ivy Club. However, Hogue had already done time in jail—in fact, had deferred his acceptance for a year because of it?...
...Fleck, who learned the banjo by moving to Nashville and mimicking the masters of the time, candidly discussed his lack of formal education. He admitted that his inability to read music sometimes limits the range of music he can play, but he also emphasized the advantages of his self-taught methods. By mimicking electric bass players, Fleck mapped scales on the banjo, allowing the instrument to play beyond the set intervals of bluegrass music. He claims he is proudest of the discoveries he made himself. Although Fleck is well versed in the traditional bluegrass music with which the banjo...
...could be written off as just plain mad, but Kennedy refuses to allow us to discount her character in the least; she deposits her readers directly in the tempestuous sea of Day’s mind. In this realm, past and present merge into each other, and fragments of self-taught Shakespeare are swept by the currents alongside recollections of patricide. It is here that Day exposes his full self to scrutiny. All is bared: his torturous conception of love, his conflicted feelings about his low class origins, his insatiable desire to learn. Cogito, ergo sum: And so from Day?...
...Edwards graduated as class president and valedictorian of Wellesley High School and was an accomplished skier and tennis player, according to a death notice circulated by his father. A self-taught guitarist, Edwards had been learning to play the Led Zeppelin song “Stairway to Heaven,” Mangan said...