How long have you been playing?

babalooga · **Joined:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:21 pm **Posts:** 581

I've been playing about 45 years. There were a few years when my kids were small that I didn't get to play as much as I would have liked, but you do what you have to do. Besides, I have no regrets, it's been great raisin' kids, raisin' cain, and playin' guitar

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Buxom · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 1:28 pm

since October 28th 2010.

pappawookee · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 2:35 pm

Started strumming eagerly when I was about 7 or 8 and now I'm 34??? I think.......yup 34 so that's about 27 years........holy crap!!!! I should be sooooo much better than I am!!! :shock:

Smokin' Frets · **Joined:** Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:33 am **Posts:** 1247

Rebelsoul wrote:

That's what I like about this place,we have a wide range of ages and experience,some of us have put in thousands of hours playing live and gotten to a point somewhere along the line that it has become second nature,we don't even think about what we're doing,it just flows.
then we have people who started young and for whatever reasons stopped only to pick it up at a later age and really enjoy getting it back...I like to see those posts,they have a renewed passion for the instrument.
and the young players,some are remarkable!....
This is a good place for learning at all ages,it seems from the early teens to the 60s and 70s....music is a universal language,I love it!

'nuff said!
There's nothing that could be added to this statement!

+1!

corpseknot · **Joined:** Wed May 02, 2012 1:32 am **Posts:** 446

started when i was 11 im 21 now so 10 years

Miami Mike · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:55 pm

Piano (keyboards) - started at age 7, been playing for 54 years.

Guitar - started at age 14, been playing for 47 years.

Self taught on both including ear training, theory and reading (not tab).

I'm passionate about music and like many different genres.

adey · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:04 pm

CRGuitarMan wrote:

Speaking for myself, when you get to be a geezer guitar player, however, you find it's the retention that becomes difficult. Learn one thing, forget another...

"Everytime I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain.." - Homer Simpson.

So true GuitarMan. And learning takes a hell of a lot longer too.

Started playing the Classical Guitar at age 10 till 16. Then took about 34 years off. Went back to it last year.

Started playing keyboards (organ and synths) at age 17, and still play - so about 34 years. Still making it up as I go along, but no-one has rumbled me yet.. :wink:

Started playing electric guitar (seriously) at age 40 - so about 11 years. Still very average.

Dabbled with Harmonica, Flute, Double Bass/Electric Bass, Theremin, Wind Synth, Guitar Synth and some other odds n ends along the way..

The C. Guitar is getting most of my attention and practise time right now. The discipline and strict technique it requires makes it a hard task master.

Always wished I'd learned the Cello, my favourite orchestral instrument.. Maybe next year lol. :idea:

Perhaps I could commission Ceri to have a crack at making me one..

BMW-KTM · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:10 pm

42 years
Started at 11
Now 53

stratmansteve · **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:06 am

CRGuitarMan wrote:

Speaking for myself, when you get to be a geezer guitar player, however, you find it's the retention that becomes difficult. Learn one thing, forget another...

A few years ago, I was at a friend's house and tried my hand at "Stairway To Heaven". This is a song we both learned by ear way back when it was new. Got half way through the song and stopped. Couldn't remember what came next.

T2Stratman · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:16 am

Started at age 8 and am now 50...so if my public math is correct...42 years.

T2

JamesG56 · **Joined:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:38 pm **Posts:** 9

I Started when I was 6. I remember watching a video tape recording of Eric Clapton at the Knebworth 1990 festival and all I wanted to do then was to play guitar like EC. First guitar my dad bought me was a blackie style Squire strat, pretty sure in my head back then when I got given it, was that I WAS EC. Haha
I'm 25 this year, still play guitar everyday. The wish to be EC has died down a bit I guess, but must still be in the back of my mind. As I bought a 56 relic CS strat last year that is the spitting imagine of the brownie-derek and the dominoes strat. :roll:

James.

44james · **Joined:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:31 am **Posts:** 176

Started a little over 2 years ago at the age of 54....late bloomer...actually, still blooming!

VladSoilerOfCarpets · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:42 am

Christ. 13 years. I really plateaued, too. Learnt classical incredibly quickly over the course of 3 years, then did nothing for 4 years, then did a little bit, then finally started improving.

Still can't sweep pick, tremolo pick or solo with any kind of intensity. Life sucks. :oops:

BOBROX24 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:54 am

as of today, exactly 21 years. I got my first guitar at 12 years old on my birthday. Today just hit 33, in case you didn't feel like doing math today!

Triskele · **Joined:** Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:18 am **Posts:** 3084

16 years, started with 27.

cheers

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