How old were you when you started playing guitar?

magstine · Post by **magstine** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:00 pm

14, I saw my friend play it at school. I ask him to help me out and then I ask my Mom to buy me a guitar.

Tiki295 · Post by **Tiki295** » Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:46 pm

Playing for real? 17

Don · Post by **Don** » Fri Oct 05, 2018 6:53 pm

I started when I was 8 and played for about a year and a half. I picked it back up when I was 15.

GIG4FUN · Post by **GIG4FUN** » Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:37 pm

Will · Post by **Will** » Fri Aug 09, 2019 3:12 pm

i was a bit late to the party - started when i was 24. Saw the Who in concert, and seeing Pete Townsend hitting those big full, orchestral chords with a vengeance in the Rock Opera, Tommy, on his (at that time) SG through a mountain of HiWatts, jumping in the air, and doing those windmills like a perpetual motion machine - well, I was hooked. A couple days later I was the proud owner of a new SG Standard...

BMW-KTM · Post by **BMW-KTM** » Tue Sep 03, 2019 5:01 pm

Will · Post by **Will** » Wed Sep 04, 2019 8:50 am

GIG4FUN and BMW-KTM, LOL! I gotta say you may have tied for first for the shortest sentences ever on an online forum - LESS than one word!

dominic · Post by **dominic** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 11:53 pm

I remember being gifted a mini-guitar when I was nine

. Couldn't properly play a guitar until I was sixteen. Been having multiple guitars now but I still keep the first mini-guitar back then. Sweet memory.

BMW-KTM · Post by **BMW-KTM** » Sat Nov 02, 2019 9:56 pm

I was 9.

Sixstringpsycho · Post by **Sixstringpsycho** » Sat Nov 09, 2019 12:57 pm

I was 14. I’ll be 40 in April. Played in a lot of bands and such but not so much in the last 4 years. I’m getting back into writing for real now.

bgh · Post by **bgh** » Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:15 am

I started playing in the late 60s. I was 14 or 15 at the time.

jnoel64 · Post by **jnoel64** » Thu Nov 14, 2019 12:25 pm

Got my first guitar at 9 - a log of a Harmony acoustic. But, I didn't start seriously playing until about 14. That was 41 years ago and I am still learning!

Headache · Post by **Headache** » Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:14 pm

I started in high school.

Had nobody to teach me a thing. We didn't have the internet and I did not know music.

I had to just figure it out, took me forever. Finally nailed down a power chord and that opened up the world to me.
Used my ear to just figure out song after song.

woodbutcher65 · Post by **woodbutcher65** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 5:55 am

I was taught the cowboy chords when I was in single digits. But I didn't actually pick up the guitar and want to learn it until I was just out of high school. 35 years later I'm still at it. I'm not good, I just don't have the disciplined practice habits required to make the jump to expert level, but I can carry a simple tune in a large bucket if nobody distracts me.

Honestly it's BUILDING guitars that is the strongest attractor for me. If I practiced playing with as much dedication that I apply when building guitars, I'd be a very good guitarist. I settle for being a very good luthier.

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