Spyke
No one in the family was ever very musical, my dad has good music knowledge of the Noot vir Noot variety and my mom plays a mean 7single. At the age of 17, as my grasp and appreciation for rock and alternative music was steadily growing, me and some mates thought we'd try the band thing. Never mind not knowing how to play an instrument we decided to learn as we go along - hey, it worked for Silverchair. I shudder to think of what it sounded like...
Never been for a single lesson and I hit a major plateau at age 20... But the last two years, my oh my, how I've grown. I'm 28 in a few days.
Dirk
Started at age 12, Turning 29 next month. Learned most of what i know in the last 10 years. I still wonder if one ever reaches a point where you're satisfied with your playing. There's just so much to know and learn
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I started playing music and the tender age of 5, started playing piano, then played the saxophone from the age of 12. Started playing guitar when i decided to pick up my dads old 1972 Ibanez J200 copy at the age of 15 (was in grade 11). Here we go 9 years down the line.
I've enjoyed the journey, it never ends. Always learning, always evolving. Gets better the more you play. I almost can't wait to hear myself in 20 years. ?
Heath
although i plonked on my ol mans nylon string most of my life , i only bought my first guitar (which i still have mind you) when i was 20
within a year i had upgraded , and bought my first amp and the gas bug bit and it's been down hill from there
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Tailon. wrote:
although i plonked on my ol mans nylon string most of my life , i only bought my first guitar (which i still have mind you) when i was 20
within a year i had upgraded , and bought my first amp and the gas bug bit and it's been down hill from there
@Tailon
You make it sound like a bad thing? down hill? ?
I love my GAS and I hope i never loose the desire and love of music
It's a psychological phenomenon that I am HAPPY to have ?
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Started on drums when I was 13, moved to guitar at 16 - that's 17 years ago. In some ways I wish I'd started earlier, but really, the older I get the more I'm able to come to terms with what I want to do with the instrument, so I don't hit as many frustrating walls.
Spyke
Stratisfear wrote:
Started on drums when I was 13, moved to guitar at 16
Unfortunately by then the damage was done... ?
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So true. Sometimes I just want to sit down and take my shirt off onstage... ?
I miss playing the drums, but I don't for a second regret the move.
(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.)
Skywalker
My first encounter with a musical instrument was messing around on my grandma's piano when I was 10 or so(coincidentally it was around this time aswell that my grandpa gave me my first "taste" of beer ?). I also took music lessons in junior school up until std 5 playing recorder,clarinet and the cello and then promptly "gave it up" when I hit hi-school - man am I regretting that now ☹
My folks weren't very musical when it came to actually playing any instruments but they love music in general and gave me a good dose of old school rock n roll when I was young. I got bitten by the guitar bug in hi school and ended up getting my first electric when I was 15. It was a cheap-ass starfire strat copy with a little 15 watt practice amp. It was wicked though cos I was getting bored with the old acoustic that was lying around the house. I've been playing on and off with a few bands since then. I've been forced to take a few "breaks" inbetween and at one point a few years ago I nearly packed it in for good ???. Good thing I perservered though as I now run my own rehearsal studios, have some great, inspirational gear to jam with and am playing with a great bunch of guys. I also turn 30 next month and am looking forward to learning as much as I can about this ausum instrument.
With that out of the way I will say that you can never be too old to learn. As long as you get great pleasure out of doing something then it's fine. I'm just getting started here 8)
pietersaayman
I started playing at 23, so I've been playing for just over a year now.
Shredder3211
Started at 19, 24 now so that`s 5years - ya sounds about rite.
Lethe
started when i was 15. Got my Ibanez 450 then. Which I still love now. Too bad I still can't play it... 9 years later...hahaha
Manfred-Klose
I first picked up a friends guitar at age 14, got some money together and went to cash converters that very same day and got my first guitar.
Since then i have never put it down, i geuss the bug bit me big time..............
Been playing for 6 years.
MikeM
I'm guessing around 10 and I'm 19 now. Would've hoped to have been MUCH better by now.
DonovanB
I like that everyone is so modest here. Makes me feel right at home so I won't be judged when I say got a guitar at 6, learnt Tom Dooley then stopped.
I started again when I was 12, and again started paying major attention to it when I was 25. I dont know what happened all that time cos it took me a month to learn the solo for Nothing else matters. lol ?
Neps
Spyke wrote:
Stratisfear wrote:
Started on drums when I was 13, moved to guitar at 16
Unfortunately by then the damage was done... ?
Hey Spyke.. Watch it.. ?
Stratisfear wrote:
So true. Sometimes I just want to sit down and take my shirt off onstage... ?
Nothing more satisfying than that!! When guitarists do it they are just weird.. When drummers do it.. we ROCK!!! ?
MikeM
Neps wrote:
Stratisfear wrote:
So true. Sometimes I just want to sit down and take my shirt off onstage... ?
Nothing more satisfying than that!! When guitarists do it they are just weird.. When drummers do it.. we
THINK WE ROCK!!! :?
I think that is more correct ?
AlanRatcliffe
Neps wrote:
Hey Spyke.. Watch it.. ?
+1.
When guitarists do it they are just weird.. When drummers do it.. we ROCK!!! ?
I play guitar barefoot, but drum with shirt off. It's a heat thing and has nothing at all to do with anything at all to do with the fact that drumming pumps you up ?
Riaan-Combrink
Stratisfear wrote:
(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...
I can relate to that. Watching that video almost made me want to take up drumming! Incredible work rate, and one of the best concert drummers I ever saw - Terry Williams those days, was'nt it? Can't believe
Alchemy's never been released on DVD ... ☹
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Oh, TOTALLY, on both counts! I bought the double CD, but couldn't figure out why no DVD was made available.
Terry was the man, as far as I was (and still am) concerned. Along with Stewart Copeland.
