Too late?

Stompbox · 18-09-2006 6:44pm #1

So I'm 15 years old and, due to a love of music,have started the guitar.But is 15 too late to start?My friends who play have done so for a long time.When did everyone here start?Also,some tips for a noob would be greatly appreciated.Thanks

feylya · 18-09-2006 6:49pm

I started when I was 16. It's never too late.

Karl Hungus · 18-09-2006 7:19pm

I started when I was 17. I'll have to agree, never too late.

vengeance52 · 18-09-2006 7:31pm

19 when i started, and its the best decision ever.

-=al=- · 18-09-2006 7:31pm

i was only 14 or so, Your aok, its pretty average age to start

Beecher · 18-09-2006 7:42pm

Herman Li started at 16 and look at him now!

Karl Hungus · 18-09-2006 7:59pm

I figure I was a fairly late started, and look at how great I am!

leninbenjamin · 18-09-2006 8:16pm

wes montgomery... one of the greatest jazz guitarists of all time... started when he was around 18 or so...

So you dont need to have been a child prodigy to become one of the greats even... all you need is resolve.

Sofaspud · 18-09-2006 8:39pm

As everyone else has said, never too late.

Most important thing, DO NOT GIVE UP!

I learned a few chords when I was 10 or so, and if I had kept going, I'd be pretty good by now. Instead, I properly started when I was 15, and am mediocre bordering good at this stage (I'm 18 now). Once you break past the stage where you find chord changes difficult, you'll never want to put down a guitar again. Unless, of course, you buy a new guitar and want to post here about how good you bet it would be if you weren't posting. Ahh, the paradox of musicianship.

Quattroste · 19-09-2006 8:34am

Sofaspud wrote:

Once you break past the stage where you find chord changes difficult, you'll never want to put a guitar again. Unless, of course, you buy a new guitar and want to post here about how good you bet it would be if you weren't posting. Ahh, the paradox of musicianship.

Explain.........

21 when I started.

punchdrunk · 19-09-2006 8:40am

started about 16/17 aswell and i'm rather brilliant...

The Freeman · 19-09-2006 9:14am

i picked up a guitar for the first time 2 years ago when i was 20 and i'm learning david gilmour solo's at the moment,so its def not too late,just set yourself goals and make sure you enjoy it the whole way through;)

Doctor J · 19-09-2006 9:24am

I was 15 when I started and I can't imagine my life without playing an instrument. It's never to late to do something you enjoy. As Bill Wyman said, "Age only matters when you're a bottle of wine"

Eoin Madsen · 19-09-2006 10:00am

I was 15 when I started guitar as well. A warning though... it pretty much set me down a path leading to a life of bohemian unemployment.

Savman · 19-09-2006 10:29am

Sweet wrote:

is 15 too late to start?

No.

NeMiSiS · 19-09-2006 10:31am

I was about ... 13 I think. I don't have much memory of my younger days.

TK

Sofaspud · 19-09-2006 11:45am

Quattroste wrote:

Explain.........
QUOTE]

My apologies, I meant to say "put down a guitar again."

Edited now, probably makes a bit more sense.

Rustar · 20-09-2006 1:53pm

Been playing multiple instruments since grade school, but I didn't get REALLY SERIOUS about guitar until tomorrow. I'm 47. Never too late!

Johnny Storm · 20-09-2006 2:02pm

Rustar wrote:

.... I'm 47...

Me too!
And it's never too late to start.

leninbenjamin · 20-09-2006 3:17pm

Johnny Storm wrote:

Me too!
And it's never too late to start.

unless you have Alzheimers and/or Arthritis...

Quattroste · 20-09-2006 4:04pm

yeah, or unless you have Alzheimers.

Johnny Storm · 20-09-2006 4:31pm

...what were we talking about, again?

!_Brian_! · 20-09-2006 5:57pm

I started playing when I was 17 and I'd have to agree with the general concensus, your never too old to learn, although if your anything like me, you'll spend most of your time wishing you had started playing earlier!

steveland? · 23-09-2006 9:15pm

I was 12 or 13 when I started... hopefully some day I'll master chord changes

Bob the Builder · 23-09-2006 9:23pm

The only time your too late is when your dead, and then its too late for everything...
I did keyboard when i was 7yrs until I was 11yrs old. I gave it up because of a lack of interest in playing... i just loved to listen... If you're interested GO FOR IT!!!

ferdi · 23-09-2006 9:24pm

i started at 15, its grand. wish i'd started earlier though...i also wish my parents had sent me to piano lessons and stuff, i was so deprived!

LundiMardi · 23-09-2006 9:28pm

i started when i was 17.. and i'm great:)

John · 24-09-2006 1:03am

I started at 16 and I'm still ****e!

steveland? · 24-09-2006 5:06pm

John wrote:

I started at 16 and I'm still ****e!

We should start a club

sock puppet · 24-09-2006 7:32pm

Its not all about what age you start. I know people who started at 8 and are still **** because they dont practice enough. I started at 11 and I'm a fairly average guitarist. I just dont practice as much as I should.

-Al- · 25-09-2006 12:50am

i started bout a year ago, so was 19, and im great (least thats what my mum tells me

)

But ya its all about stickin with it, Ive been picking up my dads guitar for years and learning a few chords he'd give me, and my fingers would hurt and I'd give up, dunno why last year I just stuck at, I love it now, if ebay sold a pair of replica hendrix hands id be happy but I'll just have to keep practising with my own

Shanannigan · 25-09-2006 4:00pm

my granny passed her driving test at 68 years of age.. if she can do that you can learn to play music from 15 or 50 if that be your situation... like frankie said.. "if you should survive to 105, look at all you'll derive out of being alive! and HERE is the best part, you'll have a head start, if you are among the very young at heart!!" don't let your age stop you from doing somethin you love. apart from underage drinking of course

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