{"id":253,"date":"2025-04-23T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/?p=253"},"modified":"2025-04-23T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:47:26","slug":"growing-as-musicians-and-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/growing-as-musicians-and-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing as Musicians and Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One question we get asked often is &#8220;How long have you been playing?&#8221;&#8230; seems like a simple enough question, but the truth is it can be fairly complicated.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Tommy originally wanted to be a bass player. His mom told him to take guitar lessons first. Thanks, Mom. Even then, however, his path wasn&#8217;t straight. He DID play bass for a minute, did some music\/guitar in college, stopped playing music altogether for a while, and didn&#8217;t find his stride until he was in his 30s! Now we know him as the master of the Telecaster and the well-rounded guitar player we love.<\/p>\n<p>Mimi went a completely different roundabout way to get to bassing it. She played bass for a very short time between 11 and 13, and not at all seriously. No lessons, just thumping on her mom&#8217;s old bass. At 16, she got a guitar and- once again- no lessons. Mostly learning by ear at this point. She took her electric guitar to university, where she picked up a few things from her fellow music major folks, but she was a voice major, so it mostly collected dust. It wasn&#8217;t until she moved to St. Thomas that she finally started working on playing guitar using the internet as a guide. Bass was not even on her radar until 2014 or so, 11 years after moving to St. Thomas, when she said, &#8220;How hard could it be?&#8221; There may have been alcohol involved. The rest is just by the seat of her pants. The music background didn&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt&#8217;s background is a mystery lost to time. We think, based on research, that he stumbled across a cursed drum kit in a corn field. He hasn&#8217;t said much about it.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, everyone starts somewhere. Some people take piano lessons as kids; some people join band as an extracurricular activity; some just pick it up and watch a ton of YouTube videos. There isn&#8217;t one correct way to become a musician. If you love it, do it. You don&#8217;t have to play for money, you don&#8217;t even have to play for an audience, but if you love to play, you&#8217;re a musician. Welcome to the club.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us your story below!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-254\" src=\"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PSX_20250423_124258-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Rum Syndicate\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PSX_20250423_124258-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PSX_20250423_124258-941x1024.jpg 941w, https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PSX_20250423_124258-768x836.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PSX_20250423_124258-1411x1536.jpg 1411w, https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PSX_20250423_124258-1881x2048.jpg 1881w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rum Syndicate at The Shrunken Hut Tiki Bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One question we get asked often is &#8220;How long have you been playing?&#8221;&#8230; seems like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,4],"tags":[43,42,40],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","category-music","tag-beginnings","tag-music","tag-the-rum-syndicate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumsyndicate.live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}