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How Old is Too Old
How old is too old to start learning to play guitar do you think or do you think that it could be learned at any age?
# 1
you are never too old to start learning guitar
some people strart in the late 40's. Some start when there like 3 years old
Just a matter of patience
some people strart in the late 40's. Some start when there like 3 years old
Just a matter of patience
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# 2
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# 3
You talking to make a career out of it or to enjoy it? If it's for enjoyment you can relate it to porn - when are you too old to enjoy porn, when you're too old to masturbate (when you're too old to physically play, that's when you're too old to learn guitar).
How many hours would you say it takes before one can be professional. .... This stupid computer doesn't have the calculator accessory. What in the sam hell...
How many hours would you say it takes before one can be professional. .... This stupid computer doesn't have the calculator accessory. What in the sam hell...
# 4
You are too old the day you start thinking that you are too old. :)
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My dad is 53 i think and he is thinking about learning how to play guitar.
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# 7
Oh yeah... it's a great hobby for enjoyment, enhancing your sex/party life etc but by my calculations, 11680 hours of practice are necessary to professionally make money from it - or 4 hours a day for 8 years. I know many people make cash after having barely an 1/8 of that, but that's what I expect my local guitarhero to have under his belt. So if you're thirty, you can count on reaping the benifits when you're 40 or so, about a decade.
# 8
wow. 4 hours a day for 8 years is a lot of practice. I practice about that much but have only been playing about a year and a half :(
As long as i get really good some day then i will be happy :)
As long as i get really good some day then i will be happy :)
By virtue of their electrical properties, tubes generate a special waveform when they're saturated, which is why tube engineering has tremendous tonal advantages over solid state or DSP solutions, particularly for crunch and lead sounds. Tubes enter the saturation zone gradually or softly, which lends tube-driven tone its trademark yet totally unique character.
# 9
Hell... my family lives into their late 90's.
My grandfather died at 98 and my father is 87 and looks like he's 50.
I figure I've got about 3/4 of a century left before I'd even start to worry about being too old for anything.
Like, since when is being in your 40's considered "OLD"?
Age is like the only acceptable form of racism allowed these days.
Call it 'Ageism' or whatever, it isn't right to judge people based on their age.
I mean, at age 65 the government forces you to retire.
That's like sending black people to the back of the bus.
My grandfather died at 98 and my father is 87 and looks like he's 50.
I figure I've got about 3/4 of a century left before I'd even start to worry about being too old for anything.
Like, since when is being in your 40's considered "OLD"?
Age is like the only acceptable form of racism allowed these days.
Call it 'Ageism' or whatever, it isn't right to judge people based on their age.
I mean, at age 65 the government forces you to retire.
That's like sending black people to the back of the bus.
# 10
People do change as they get older. Peoples fingers probably slow down to and become less flexible. I think this is probably when you are too old :)
By virtue of their electrical properties, tubes generate a special waveform when they're saturated, which is why tube engineering has tremendous tonal advantages over solid state or DSP solutions, particularly for crunch and lead sounds. Tubes enter the saturation zone gradually or softly, which lends tube-driven tone its trademark yet totally unique character.
# 11
Man, if I'm not dead by 37 I'm going to consider myself a weak old man. Old people are a disease. Unless they're knowledgable they're useless (going from the thought that there's two kinds of people in the world, physical and thinking. If you're neither then you're a tool for one of the two, probably both).
Old people are phsyically incapable. I'm talking 55-60+. But after 37-40 you really don't have to much time to excel in any field unless you're intelligent and the field is based in thinking. If you're 40 without any direction, you'd better have a woman who loves you or else, in my books, you're useless, just another number, a product of capitalism/commercialism etc.
I'm pulling this out of my ass (all but the age 37 bit), but I think I genuinely believe it.
Old people are phsyically incapable. I'm talking 55-60+. But after 37-40 you really don't have to much time to excel in any field unless you're intelligent and the field is based in thinking. If you're 40 without any direction, you'd better have a woman who loves you or else, in my books, you're useless, just another number, a product of capitalism/commercialism etc.
I'm pulling this out of my ass (all but the age 37 bit), but I think I genuinely believe it.
# 12
I know quite a few people around the 60 age barrier who arn't useless.... true, some are. The only thing that annoys me is old people who walk slowly down the street then suddenly stop to make you stop like it's their right....grrrrrr.
As for too old to play/learn guitar...I'd say when your fingers wont do what you want them too. My grandad is going to start playing soon and he's nearly 60...
- J
As for too old to play/learn guitar...I'd say when your fingers wont do what you want them too. My grandad is going to start playing soon and he's nearly 60...
- J
# 13
Originally Posted by: JamiephofeI know quite a few people around the 60 age barrier who arn't useless.... true, some are. The only thing that annoys me is old people who walk slowly down the street then suddenly stop to make you stop like it's their right....grrrrrr.
- J
Yes. Also hate it when people just randomly stop in the street and expect the person walking right behind to just jump over them or something.
My dad is about 53 and he isnt useless and i'm sure he will still be doing lots of work when he is 60.
There are some people that are useless though and dont do anything when they get old. There are also a lot of young people these days that dont do much. Usually people who sit at a computer all day and post on forums :rolleyes:
By virtue of their electrical properties, tubes generate a special waveform when they're saturated, which is why tube engineering has tremendous tonal advantages over solid state or DSP solutions, particularly for crunch and lead sounds. Tubes enter the saturation zone gradually or softly, which lends tube-driven tone its trademark yet totally unique character.
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