(Before I got to hit some real drums, for years I used to put on the video tape of Dire Straits' Alchemy concert and play on cushions, pots and pans, using knitting needles... Ill-advised for someone with a dust mite allergy.)

LOL...same here. Me and my dad played drums with knitting needles when I was about three or four. Later on, in high school, I ended up as bugle player in the cadet band but desperately wanted to play drums. The teacher never would let me, and I eventually left matric as a trumpet player. But I got a pair of Premier drum sticks in St. 6 and spent most of my "practicing" hours playing all the band's drum parts on furniture. Then I added pots and pans for rock drumming...cool!

My favourite chair now is an old Morris chair which my parents handed down to me -it still shows the scars of my early drumming efforts!

Started playing (more like screwing around) when i was 16. Stopped for like 6 years. Still dont know why. Started again a couple of years ago...

Lacuna ZA wrote:
PS: This is on another note, but I absolutely HATE it when other guitarist try to out brag you. Like, I finally finished learning the solo for Nothing Else Matters (which I'm really proud off) and I share this with another guitarist. His response: "Yeah, well... that's easy... I did that in the first couple of months when I started playing" Thanks for the feedback douchebag.

You'll find that alot.... How any guitarists does it take to screw in a light bulb?...... 2...one to do it and one to go "Yeah i can do that"......
Just like any art or hobby you'll find your assholes...

lol

Meh, like you said, you'll get that in any hobby. Just one of my pet peeves. ?

I'm stoked to have started. Its really something I find hard to describe to people who don't play. Even a simple little riff like Whole Lotta Love makes me loose it... in a good way of obviously. And sitting hours and hours working on a riff.. thats just that bit beyond your skill... and then you start nailing it. AWE.SUM.

Right now, I'm just enjoying playing... and trying to amass enough experience + theory to start expressing my own ideas.

\m/ \m/

I started when I was 10 I'm now 50. The weird thing is that I had done done Brian Adams Summer of 69 many times with a cover band before I realized that the songs lyrics applied to me almost to the letter. Except I didn't get my first 6 string a the 5 and dime but at the new music store in Claremont, "Paul Bothners" for the princely sum of R12.00 ?

You can now use that same R12,00 and buy a footlong, if only you knew and saved it. I found a log book in my car and saw the owners could fill it up with R20.

I bought a Yamaha C40M for my girlfriend for Christmas in 2006 at age 38. She never played it and I immediately started messing around. Since then, I have owned a Stratacoustic (sold to Gearhead) and currently own a Samick SG400 and Cort Z22.

Started at 22 Now 24, So about a year and a half.

But what I have learned is that it's not really how many years you've been playing, or
how many hours a day you practice.

Its playing consistently and constantly trying to devolope your skills.
Getting better isn't playing the one thing you can play over and over or just playing you're
favourite licks whole day, its working on your technique trying to play cleaner, faster and more
creatively.

Anyway enough rant, good luck.

I turned 28 in March
And on the 14 July it will be exactly 2 years since I picked up the guitar for the first time
best thing i have everdecided to do - most satisfying definetly

Hi, My name's Jarryd and I b'een addict'ed to geeeetaring for 10 months now....HEEEEEHAAAAAW!! "Hi Jarryd!!" ?

I'm 21 now by the way...

I'm tempted to do my own little biography. I started playing the piano (of course) at age 9/10. When I got to high school where more choices in instruments were offered I went wild. I took my Dad's old folk guitar and got classical lessons, joined the marimba band and took drum lessons when I could. Recently joined a marimba band again, had loads of fun, but unfortunately it is no more.

Time is increasingly taking on different meanings. To put it this way, in my work I see a child grow from 2 to 4, and even though it's only two years a complete metamorphosis takes place. I try to grow as much as I can, but I don't think measurements of time relate in the way it used to when I was younger.

Snap to anyone who's also 27.