How old are you guys?

Heh thanks bro. It's great to be back :-)

15, been playing for about 5 years now

hi all ill add my 2 cents worth lol. anyway im 32 and have been playing for 20+ years now, i tottaly skipped the theory part when learning so im just starting to get that down. anyway this was a great idea for a thread and id like to say there is a wide variety of ages here and many different styles or music generes, we can all learn alot from eachother. thanks guys and god bless. tim pate

I'm 34. Self taught mostly, started playing at age 17 then gave it up for about 4 years at the age of 22 or so. Picked it back up since then and have mostly used the guitar for stress reduction and self gratification. Played in many bands ranging from hardcore punk to cover rock. Play left handed.


I've been told I'm a great rhythym player which I believe because my lead playing absolutely sucks lol. I record various styles at home mostly on cooledit pro 2 and have that itch again sooooo bad to get back into a band situation. Just can't seem to find the right situation to fit my schedule (parenting, work, girlfriend, etc etc)

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

34?! Your not too old for punk. :)

i'm 17 i started playing when i was 12 and still am playing but not as much as i used too i'm a lil mad at myself i've been playing satriani and yngwie **** for a good 3 yrs

I'm 16, been playing non stop since i was somewhere in 14 yrs old. Heard Metallica's S&M cd, changed my view on what rock and metal can be, so I got into (and still am getting into) more technical forms of rock (ex. vai, petrucci) while at the same time looking at wut peeps like rhoads and page did. I'm always working on my scales and their speed, and I have recently started looking into middle eastern scales to see wut I can create.

15, been playing since my bday last feb 21 when i got my first guitar.

35 YEARS OLD, playing since age eight. That's 27 years I guess. It doesn't seem that long. A quarter century is not long enough for me.

Originally posted by oldpunker
..I've been told I'm a great rhythym player which I believe because my lead playing absolutely sucks lol...

LOL.
Ever heard a guy going,when asked about his less than average girlfriend,"I really like her personality...."

Im 17 now, i really started to pratice about 7 months ago. started a month before i turned 16 i guess. so almost a year now. i think im comming along pretty well, know alot of technical stuff, not big on playing ohther peoples stuff .

Forgot to mention...I tinkered on an acoustic around the age of 8 but never took up guitar seriously till I turned 13 because of Randy Rhoads, The Christmas of that year I got my first electric. I would play first thing in the morning, bring it to school from time to time and play during lunch hour, after my homework when I got home (Parents would not let me play it till homework was finished), and all day on the weekends. My parents had a great weapon when it came to grounding me when I misbehaved...Yup, got grounded from playing guitar.

I grew up in the 80's (A great time for learning the guitar by the way), and bugged the older guys to show me what they learned till later on I learned to read tab and had a subscription to Guitar for the practicing musician. MTV was a great motivator and inspiration to me in those days. MTV was a lot better in those days than it is today and played way better music and videos.

Well I know everyone wants to know about me...(yeah right)
I am 32 years old and first picked up the guitar at 9. Played in my first hairband at 16 playing Poison, Van Halen, Tesla, Guns n Roses, and anything else that was new. Hell I think I was the only person in my high school who could pull off playing "Yankee Rose" I actually got suspended from my high school for a week after my band played at the school talent show. For some reason they thought simulating mastubation with the guitar in the general vicinity of the only female teacher was lewd and just plain wrong... Cool thing was my dad came up with a vhs tape of Yankee Rose and tried to get them to let me back in stating..."Hey it's no worse than you see on TV". Thanks DAD!
Ever since then I played in numerous cover bands, and one or two all original bands, that never went anywhere further than the local liquor store for some beer.
I was on stage in 1993 and I had just finish the 2nd set for the night, with 2 to go when the sound guy started up the "filler music". He played this song from Beck called "loser".... I heard this guy singing about stuff that didn't make the least bit of sense and playing a guitar that obviously hadn't been tuned since it was new, and I realized that this guy had a "record contract" and was "making records". I also found out that it was like a top ten "hit" that night just before we were supposed to go back on. Now this probably wouldn't mean much to me if I was playing covers at the time, but I was in the "liquour store" original band and was working my a** off at the time.
I never finished the last 2 sets... I packed up my stuff and vowed not to play in another band until Rock started to "smarten up"...
Now I just play for pure enjoyment...
I have heard some interesting stuff lately that's giving me a ray of hope that Rock is coming full circle.
That new band "Evenescence" is awesome...
"Bowling for Soup" is very intersting with witty lyrics...
There are others also, even some of the "Nu Metal" stuff gets me banging my head on the way to work every once in a while.
Who knows. Maybe rock has gotten smarter, and it's time to get back out there and kick some a**...

'nuff said...

been playing since 13... im 18 now... 5 years acoustic and 3 weeks ago got my first electric...

Im 17, been playing guitar for a year, i started to play bass about 15 but found it boring, although i know thats not true now i like guitar better.

I'm turning 21 in July, started playing bass when I was 17 and dropped out of school, I was about 18 going on 19 when I took up guitar and haven't stopped ever since, apart from the last couple of weeks.
my wrists have been killing me recently so i decided to rest for a while (so hard to stop playing for 2 weeks :( )

I hit 29 in August. Been playing since 13. Classically trained on the piano, clarinet and sax so that's where I got my theoretical nous from. Self-taught on guitar and bass. Played semi pro on the North West England and London scenes for about 8 years but got too knackered doing that and holding down a full-time job.

im 16 ive played the bass for about three years and the guitar for 1 year and loved every bit of it . even the bass. bass isnt boring when your playing with a band but when you alone its very boring.
But i do have to agree that the guitar is better than the bass. i play
mostly hard rock from deftones to system of a down and also love to play classical , and old school rock

I`m 17 now ( just turned 17 a month back ) and I have been playing guitar for just under 4 years. on the whole bass being boring thing...bass is severly boring when a bassist just follows the guitar, or plays only the root note, but when slapping or playing arpeggio bass lines etc, then it is always fun to play and listen to.
Andrew

I'm 12 been playing for two years.