want to be able to play a song I hear just by listening to it,” says Chapel Hill High School freshman Hank Neal, who recently started to learn how to play the guitar. After trying to teach himself on an acoustic, Hank decided to make the switch to electric guitar shortly after his dad, Matt Neal, began learning how to play the bass so they could play alongside each other. Local musician Django Haskins taught Hank online and, after just three months of hourlong lessons every Wednesday, Hank made unbelievable progress. “[He] sounds like a real rock and roller,” Hank’s grandmother Moreton Neal says. He prefers rock songs, and he often finds himself playing “Ziggy Stardust” by David Bowie. Hank says he enjoys playing with friends, but if he ever decides to create his own music, he wants to perform solo.
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chapelhillmagazine.com
December 2020