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01-17-2012, 10:42 PM
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Encouraging!
Shockingly, I am finding guys older than me (64) picking up a guitar! I casually mentioned to my wife last year sometime that I would like to play guitar again. I played bass in a band in high school. Santa brought me an electric guitar for Christmas. Fortunately, Santa doesn't know the difference between a bass and a six string and I was wanting to learn six string! So I have now been playing for 2 weeks!
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01-20-2012, 02:09 PM
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Me too
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Originally Posted by ddlance
No, you now have another beginner in his 70's learning and practicing diligently..... Luv it....
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I'll soon be 65 and took up guitar last year. It is very slow going, but is is relaxing, and good to keep the brain active as it ages. I felt kind of silly buying a guitar at my age, so it's good to know there's other seniors learning too. |
01-26-2012, 02:15 PM
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I'm 48 years young, and just got my guitar for Christmas. I started messing around with one in College, but had to sell it as I needed the money back then. I always regretted it.
Well here I am, starting new. After learning a couple songs off the internet, I decided I didn't want to just mimick being a guitar player, I wanted to truly learn how to play. I'm glad to see so many of us in the same boat. It will be fun to listen to eveyone's stories and their personal highs and lows as we go along. Time to do some scales.
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01-28-2012, 07:02 PM
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Here's My 2 Cents
I took guitar lessons as a kid when I was around 12. I never stuck to anything when I was growing up including the guitar. Of course now I regret all of that because it was always easy to just not do it. A few years ago my wife bought me one of the Esteban guitars from HSN, I plinked away on it every now and then. This year I have set a goal of playing the guitar once and for all. I just turned 56 in December and I realized I haven't set goals for myself for quite some time. Thanks Guitar Tricks, I'm glad I found you.
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01-31-2012, 05:49 AM
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No your not too old.
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01-31-2012, 05:53 AM
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For what its worth my oldest student was 76
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02-01-2012, 03:08 PM
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More of us than you think mate :-)
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Originally Posted by axeman81
Hello UKRocker 
From a fellow Brit and a Londoner, it's nice to see someone else from the UK at Guitar Tricks! There aren't many of us here. So, welcome and I hope you benefit as much as I do.
The 50s onwards was a great era for music and modern day rock definitely owes inspiration to back then. A few of my favourites are Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
We Brits need to make more of a presence felt at GT, definitely! Have fun rocking just as well as the above legends.
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Coming up 60 and wish I had started earlier, get blocks where I get frustrated and can't do what i want to do, but as everyone says, we are never told old to learn, it just takes us Longer.
I am from Leeds in the UK.
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