When Did You Start Playing?

I've been taking lessons for 2 years. I have an electric guitar.
Does anyone like having both a electric and acoustic???? Does
everyone play in a band? I'm actually 47 years old and just
started to learn the guitar at 45.... I'm proud of myself!

I love having both electric and acoustic. I have my electrics, amp, pedal, etc. down in my basement, but I keep my acoustic out in my bedroom. it's nice if I just feel like picking it up for 10-15 minutes and don't feel like getting out the other one and cleaning it when I'm done. I'm so used to cleaning out my woodwinds that I can't help but wiping off the strings really well before I put my electrics away. I change the strings on my acoustic so often I don't both cleaning them.

Originally Posted by: Linda K. BlevinI've been taking lessons for 2 years. I have an electric guitar.
Does anyone like having both a electric and acoustic???? Does
everyone play in a band? I'm actually 47 years old and just
started to learn the guitar at 45.... I'm proud of myself!

Well you're in good company. I didn't pick up the guitar until I was 45 as well. Like you, just turned 47! I too am proud of myself. Welcome to GT! :)

I just bought about an acoustic a month ago and i'm 28 :D Talk about late dream :D

I browse a book I bought on the topic and was overwhelmed by the info :eek:

But I guess you just take one chord at a time (or one note, if finger picking is your style).

Errr.. my pen name is Fable Fox (with two technical book published) and currently writing two novel, one is about a game programmer, and the other, is , well, about a beginner guitar player

That's it. This is a thread to introduce yourself, right?

I've had guitars since I was a teenager in the '60s. Peanut from the Baron Knights played my acoustic on the steps, when my mate forgot the keys to the club they were supposed to be rehearsing in. I've always messed around and never actually learned to play properly. Now I'm not working anymore and I ain't going fishing, I'm gonna Knuckle down to it, 'cos my dream is to stand up in front of a pub full of Germans at the Isle of Man T.T. and deliver a belting "Still Got The Blues"......... :cool:

i started playing when i was 13 when i got a stratocaster for christmas now 14

My mother is very musical so she introduced me to her acoustical (1963 Yahmaha) at the ripe age of 3. I remember her teaching me basic chords, strumming etc. She tried to get me to learn the piano when I was 5 but I was hooked on the guitar and had little love for the ivory's although I still learned and still play.

I grew up playing in our family band until I moved away from home. I played in several bands until 94 when i got married. I took a 12 year break, playing now and then but not often, and then started to get serious two years ago. Can't believe how many things I had forgotten and how slow my fingers had become. lol

Today I play every for at least an hour. I jam with several bands in our area and starting to feel confident again, confident enough to start another band.

The long break is what made me realize what I wanted to do with my music, I missed it everyday. At 35 I can play most advanced stuff but still find myself referring back to basics, theory and such.

Guitars Epiphone Wildkat, 1984 Fender Strat, Arbor strat copy, 1963 Yamaha (yep still have it although I have worn a hole through the body and broke the neck and repaired it myself) and my dads old Hondo II.

So I guess in all I have been playing for about 32 years off and on

I started at age 17, never took lessons nor bothered with theory
... which I later regretted

I forced myself to forget all I knew 2 years ago and started all over again - this time the correct way thanks-to-guitartricks-and-many-others. I am now 26 and playing the blues.

I bet you opened this thread because you're wondering whether or not you suck for the time you've been playing so... here it is. I guess whatever age you start playing or how long you've been playing is irrelevant. It's a matter of how seriously you learn the guitar (and music). Learn the chords, learn the major scales. These are the most important concepts to understand for everything else in occidental music.

:cool: I started at the ripe OLD age of 46. Played alittle when I was 12. I'm a lefty so it's hard to find a teacher to learn from. Anyone out there want to help me???

About 3 years ago, but only started PROPERLY in May. And I've missed a couple of months since due to health reasons. I've 'dabbled' in music though with other instruments and stuff since I was 11. I'm now 28. :)

I`m not 100% sure, but I think I started when i was 17 or 18 years old. Theoretically that must have been somewhen in 1996.

just started 2 months ago at 24. long way to go but picking it up thanks to
this site.