How long ahve you been playing?

[savannah_sean]

Started when I was 13, am 40 now. Was real serious about it for the first few years, then college got in the way, then Peace Corps got in the way, then grad school got in the way, and then more grad school. Finally got a job that enables me to buy EBMM's, in 2 cover bands now, playing out about 1ce a month.

 

[evolvedmb]

25 years I've been playing. I'm 38 and I'm just now comfortable playing
in front of other people for real. I actually have a school talent show
tomorrow with some of the other teachers from my school. We will hopefully
have someone record the songs we're playing and post them up on youtube.
Not sure if I want to play my Axis or JP though..
My real story began when I heard Eruption the first time. My dad liked Journey,
Boston, The Eagles, Clapton, etc.. But I knew right then
that I had to play guitar like EVH. I've been hooked ever since. My mom
just recently told me that my dad refused to buy me a guitar because "I
always quit everything I started!" I guess mom's know best, huh! I'll be buried
or burnt with one of my guitars when it's all said and done. Someone will have to
pry it from my cold hands, haha...

 

[LawDaddy]

<respectfully declines to answer question>

 

[Slowlicks]

<respectfully declines to answer question>

Chicken........ A respectful poke!

All great stories.. I really enjoy reading them. Kinda give us a chance to get to know one another better. Keep them coming. I'm about to plug in! So..........
But: "I'll be Back"

 

[dhalif]

been playing about 13 - 14 years here

 

[brasco68]

I started playing when I was 14....I'm 42 now.

 

[B2D]

12 years. It's been a great ride so far and I don't think I'll get tired of this anytime soon.

 

[DaPatrooch]

I've been playing for maybe 5 or 6 years, but I've been playing seriously for probably 3 or 4.

 

[Tung]

26 years and counting, never regret any of it. The longer I play, the more I realize there's more to learn

 

[azazael]

I got serious about guitar playing three and a half years ago. I'm starting to play now. So, I guess you could say I've been playing for about a week now. You?

And for those of us who speak english??

 

[mojomkr]

Since the Day after i watched "The Song Remains the Same" It was way

cooler though if you were into the Rolling Stones and Hendrix....back then

 

[cm_17]

Since 1992. Can't believe it's been that long.

 

[straycat113]

I have 2 sisters that are 8 and 10 years older and a brother who is 7. My brother has collected vinyl records since I could remeber hearing and music was always blasting in the house. My oldest sister played piano and Acoustic guitar and this was in the heart of the British invasion so I wanted to play. I took 3 formal lessons at 10 from a teacher that was no lie in his 80s and had me playing Oh Susana and that was the last lesson I ever took. I can still remember my sister showing me a G-Em-C-D progression and how I could play half the Doo Wop songs ever written.

The only bummer was I grew up in a wild neighberhood in NY and was the only guy in my crew that could play music though most did not know. Finally in my 20s I met other players who became my little music circle. The last band I was asked to join was when I was about 38 and the rest of the guys were in there mid twenties but I said no way though I had a years worth of fun jamming with them. I really take pride in the fact that no one really taught me to play and I can play 80% of what I hear by my own doing. The only music I really cant play is shred as I just cant play 32 notes that wiz by clean but right up until I got hurt I was still sure as hell trying.lol

 

[spychocyco]

Started banging on the guitar very young. My grandfather was a pretty good country picker, and he taught me a few things on his old Kay hollowbody (which I still have). At the time, I wasn't interested in the stuff he was playing and didn't understand how it could help me play what I wanted to play, so I didn't pay that much attention. I regret that now.

I was probably 14 when I got my first "rock" guitar, a Memphis (not the collectable ones) with a plywood body, fine roseplastic fingerboard and a strange tremelo system that looked like a Floyd and had a locking nut, but was string-through. Over the course of 20 years, I went through a variety of mostly cheap pawn shop guitars in my search, some good, some awful, and various stages of progression and non-progression.

For Christmas 2007, my wife decided to buy me a nice guitar. We visited a few shops, and I gave her a few options in the $700-$1000 range, but she knew what I really wanted, and she found a way to order my Axis. I really got serious about things then, and in the next year and a half or so, I progressed more than in the first 20-something years I played. I've kind of fallen off the practice wagon recently though, due to outside forces, which included the very real possibility of having to part with my Axis to keep my house. Things are leveling out now, and hopefully I can get back on track with my playing and start working toward that 25th that I hope I can manage to get before they're all gone.

So that's a long-winded story to say a long time, or maybe just a few years, depending on how you look at it.

 

[ScoobySteve]

I'm 24, been playing since I was 13. So 11 eleven years going.

Not as good as I should be. I honestly wish I spent more time practicing the boring drills and theory I knew would make me better instead of noodling all the time. Ah wells, time to practice now!

 

[e.mate]

More than 25 years ... holy **** I feel old !

+1

Started with music when I was seven (kind of flute thing...)....music teacher ("YOU WILL NEVER PLAY AN INSTRUMENT") was kind of a radical feminist, and hated me (all other students where girls..). Switched to chimes tought at a local church.....boring. Wanted to play drums all the time, but my mother said I would have to kill her first. Didn't want to do that...

Took up guitar lessons when I was 14. Teacher was a neo-avantgarde-jazz-freak-out-type of guitar player...and a cool guy (the type of guy, Lucious would call a brother). Learned to play Police, Dire Straits, u2 and of course some basic rock stuff (on a nylon string!!!!!!). The guy spoiled all my music theory, made up my own chords instead...and learned solo playing. Soon, I was done

Since then, must have played in a million bands and projects, still making up my own chords, still really don't know what I'm playing.....but nobody complains, so seems to be fine. Logically, ended up in a Prog band

 

[denny99]

And for those of us who speak english??

A friend of mine from London once told me: "Only in England we speak English"

 

[denny99]

Since 1988, I was 11 back then.

 

[Hendog]

I have been playing the bass sence I was about 4. I'm 29. I have recorded professionaly as a studio musician on bass.

I have been playing the guitar for 14 years on and off but I didn't get serious untill a year ago.

 

[knguro]

You don't know me yet, You don't understand my humor.
But You will if you're still around here next week.
Are you from Mexico? Do you wear a big hat and drink Tequila? Do you like the worm?

Hey people we're not trying to make a big social mess out of this forum, this forum is the best i've been part of, and yes i know i'm not a Senior member yet, neither moderator, but i would suggest that we should adhere to the thread here, .

BTW I’ve been playing guitar around 12 years.