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Troy Yanel has been playing guitar since he was eight or nine years old. He started listening to records with his brother at a young age, and when he and his parents went to Chicago one year, he ended up buying a used guitar. He’s been playing ever since, studying classical guitar at Georgia College & State University before moving into music therapy. He ended up getting his undergraduate and master’s degrees at that college, and he’s always loved playing in bands.

At a very young age, Scott Dale was first inspired by music when he saw The Beatles performing on The Ed Sullivan Show. He was inspired enough to want a guitar, which he received as a Christmas gift at around the age of ten. He learned how to play the guitar first from guitar lessons that didn’t particularly work for him, then from learning what chord diagrams were and teaching himself from there.

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