[00:00.33]I started playing the guitar [00:01.60]oh..seem ???????...emm [00:04.51]Back in 1959,my..eh..My mom and dad gave me my first guitar.. [00:11.51]was a little three-quater-size one. [00:14.55]My mom wanted to learn Hawaii music [00:17.22]and...She needed a rhythm guy so... [00:21.15]..That was me... [00:23.49]and..and then my other brothers and sister took up playing instruments as well. [00:27.94]My eldest brother Chris played the drums.. [00:31.99]..my sister Verginia played the Hawaii steel guitar. [00:34.70]And my brother Fill who was my closest sibling. [00:38.96]He was the lead guitar player,I was the accompanist. [00:43.48]And I started there..in my musical life.. [00:46.74]Doing..what I..I love to do and that is being an accompanist. [00:52.04]And..when I was little learning songs off the radio [00:56.85]and tried to work out what was going on on records. [00:59.92]One of the things that I was not aware of was that [01:03.39]there was a bass guitar on records. [01:05.38]I thought for some reason that the rhythm player covered the bass. [01:10.75]And I will show you what I mean. [01:14.78]So..there was a record by a band called 'The Shadows' [01:19.68]..and the bass part went like this...(Bass..) [01:25.87]And the rhythm went like this...(Ringing..) [01:29.87]What I heard was.....（Bass&Ringing） [01:39.24]And didn't sound like anyone was missing. [01:41.65](Laugh..)And... [01:43.55]So...(Ringing..) [01:53.06]See it making the sound of the bass as well as the rhythm. [01:55.52]And that's...that's what I thought was..was going on. [01:58.83]And it was kind of a happy accident,because when I got a little older [02:04.12]and I heard Chet Atkins on the radio, [02:06.79]I could hear he was playing everything at once. [02:09.93]And people didn't believe that [02:11.04]they said,"Oh,no.It's a recording trick,don't take any notice to that." [02:14.45]I said,"Oh,no.I think he is playing everything at once..I'll show you how it goes." [02:19.31]And I use my..my straight pick and I work out how to get that.(Ringing...Inro of 'Windy&Warm') [02:25.96]Going like that with the pick,and then I got my fingers playing the melody. [02:31.10]And I had my own little band like this... [02:34.98].......(Clapping) [03:10.57]So you got the idea anyway,right? (Clapping..Laughing) [03:16.13]So that's how I started the fingerstyle playing with this straight pick. [03:19.42]And then I acrossed was about 11 or 12 years old and I finally saw a photoghraph of..of Chet [03:26.97]and he was playing with a thumbpick on his thumb.I had one of those..haa..moments,you know? [03:33.93]And..So when I got myself a thumbpick was like someone opened the gate and the horse ran out,you know. [03:39.63]So I was off and running,and I've been off and running ever since. [03:43.89]And..So I sure do own Chet so much,he showed so many of us the way... [03:51.35]inspired us seems still does today,what a legacy he left for us.