“We do what’s most fun first,” he said, “and start having fun from the very first lesson.” Then, he essentially aims to make himself obsolete. As any good teacher should do.
“I don’t so much teach them how to play, I teach them how to teach themselves how to play. In other words, the ‘p’ word…practice.”
“My personal interest is old time fiddle jam music,” Young said. Because of this, he was instrumental in 2006 in helping start a weekly jam at the Occidental Hotel in Buffalo.
Music plays an important role in this teacher’s life, and he believes it should play a role in everyone’s life. He sees value in it.
“It’s like my ministry,” he said. “I think it’s important for people to play music. Bluegrass is a music that’s simple, that an eight-, nine- or 10-year-old…or a 78-year-old…can play. And they don’t sit alone to play, like at a piano.”