Esquire Philippines Asks Apo Hiking Society member Jim Paredes on how he first discovered music.
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00:00We're ten brothers and sisters, and I'm number nine.
00:04So my brother had a band, so he loved to sing in the house, and his friends would be there.
00:10And all of us could sing in the family.
00:14And I remember my mother would invite people to the house, and I was maybe about even four
00:21years old.
00:22And she would ask all of us to sing for the guests in the house.
00:26Parang kami bon trap family.
00:28That's how I remember it.
00:30We were always singing.
00:31And for me, it was natural that everybody could sing.
00:34And then I picked up the guitar.
00:37At age eleven, my sister asked me for what I wanted for my birthday.
00:41I bought a guitar in Lumanog.
00:43It was one hundred pesos, would you believe?
00:46It was not a great guitar, but, you know, steel strings pa.
00:51And my brother knew some chords, and he taught me a few chords.
00:59And he taught me a few chords, and he taught me a few chords, and he taught me a few chords,
01:06and he taught me a few chords, and he taught me a few chords, and he taught me a few chords,
01:13and he taught me a few chords, and he taught me a few chords, and he taught me a few chords,
01:18and he taught me a few chords, and he taught me a few chords, and he taught me a few chords,
01:23and he taught me a few chords, and he taught me a few chords, and he taught me a few chords,