is it to late?

ok heres my question i am dying to learn the guitar and eventually master it ...................is it to late to pick up a guitar for the first time at the age of 21?..........

No. It's not. That's a relatively early start in my opinion.

Well, I use to say to be really good at anything you have to start when you're like 6 or 7 lol, but heck man its never too late it just depends on how hard you try and how much you practice. practice practice practice.........

That's definitely not too late! I know a guy who started learning guitar when he was thirty-six or so. He's now forty-two, and is on the verge of graduating with his classical guitar diploma!

My mom just turned 49. For her birthday I got her her very first violin and she's just now starting to learn it. If you want to master it you just have to be aware of how much time you'll need to put into it. There's a lot of reading, a lot of dedication, and a lot of practice required for a goal like that and what you put in will show. That being said, grab a guitar and get started. It always bugs me when people talk like it's too late. Like they've died and are now incapable of learning to play an instrument. So long as you're still a living being you're ok to play. Just last night a friend of mine was telling me how he wished he could play drums. The thing is I've listened to him say that since our junior year in high school, and now he's 22 and still saying it. When I presented him the idea of getting a starter kit he just formulated excuses like "too expensive" or "I don't want a starter kit, I want a real kit." It all comes down to how bad do you want it.

Bloomin heck I hope not.

I'm about to take the plunge at the age of 44!!!!

I'm 31 and been playing for a little over a year now. I hope it ain't too late 'cause I'm in deep trouble if it is..... :D

It's FAR too late. You'll never learn a thing.

JOLLY! It's harder the older you get but not impossible.

Jolly always makes me feel better. :rolleyes:

I started when I was 19 and I thought that was a late start, but looking back I think that was just about right for me.

Originally Posted by: LeedoggI started when I was 19 and I thought that was a late start, but looking back I think that was just about right for me.

Yeah, see that's how it was for me too. Well... sort of. When I began I didn't think it was necessarily too late (I began at 18) but given the personality that I've had through my life, my attention span wouldn't have permitted me to have stuck with it if I learned as a kid. I attempted to learn the mandolin, but my dad only encouraged that so far and working with him made it more of a chore than a hobby. About a decade later I started learning instruments when I developed the desire to do so. And I've been catering to that desire ever since. Right on schedule I say.

Originally Posted by: memphoman01ok heres my question i am dying to learn the guitar and eventually master it ...................is it to late to pick up a guitar for the first time at the age of 21?..........

Here some advise from a 52 year old geezer. Go for it.. If you really want to learn and master the guitar you will. I have been learning new things my whole life. To me it is what makes life living. It's like gravy on the mashed potatoes. Since 21, I have learned much, At 40 I took up the Bass Guitar and got good enough to play in a band. At 45 I took up sailing. Now I sail very well and have a nice 33' sailboat.. Now at 52 I am not only learning more about the guitar. But I just started learning to play the piano.. This was all on top of going to college at 40, 48 going through the MCSE networking courses, Learning how to be a good husband and dad, and at 49 starting and running and Restaurant Computer systems business.. If you really want to do some thing do it, you will not have any regrets. Regrets come when you don't do the things you wanted to. When you are in the pine box facing up it's too late.... So as those Nike commercails say "Just Do it!!!!

I started bass at around age 22. I'm 27 now and can outplay many pros (though at this time I don't play quite as clean/precise as a real pro would, which is indeed a detriment, and only people equally [bleep]ed are willing to cooperate with me; you don't want me to help you with your album unless it's bizarre crap that normal humans will find intolerable), with a 5-string fretless as my main rig.

I just started guitar in January of this year and can solo out of thin air (as in, nobody wrote it, I didn't write it, I'm just playing it as fast as I think it up) until the cows come home... though only with bass techniques (as far as the left hand goes). I have yet to learn the stuff that can't be done on a bass but that can be done on a guitar. (Ehhhh... that goes vice-versa, too. :p ) Also, I'm nothing but ear; I don't know theory for [bleep]. On bass I can accompany anyone/anything at any time and can improv like mad until the neck breaks off... hardest part is not getting carried away... pro drummers have gotten mad at me a few times because I have a tendency to throw them off by doing weird stuff they don't anticipate... but ask me to even recite the notes on the fretboard and I'll be like "derrrrrrrr... hold on... uhhhh... B... C... C#... D... then up one is E...."

Go for originality. I don't mean you have to come up with an album of original material... but develop your own unique style, even if you only play other people's stuff. I've known too many pro and semi-pro players who can play just like SRV or Clapton or you-name-it (close your eyes and it's like SRV has risen from the grave) but don't have their own voice.