At what age did you start playing guitar?
Cathy Cowette
that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15. Eight
also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
don't understand chord and note relationships.
I started at 8, but only because my uncle was determined that I was going to
be a guitar player. I didn't really get serious about it until age 12 or so.
Cathy
Jim McCrain
Cathy Cowette wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
Age of 33!
Jim "Am I too late?" McCrain
Hojo2x
>At what age did you start playing guitar?
22.
I was a late bloomer.
But I made up for it in terms of of intensity. Within two years I was making
my living at it.
Wade Hampton Miller
Chugiak, Alaska
1 eyed jack
> Cathy Cowette wrote:
>
> >At what age did you start playing guitar?
If you count the ukelele, 5; first guitar at 11.
JD (still blooming)
Cathy Cowette
and started taking lessons in January. It's great fun, but a little
embarrassing when someone asks how I'm doing with it. My usual reply is,
"Well, I can now play as well as some of the 12 year olds."
Cathy
"Hojo2x" <hoj...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Bob Alman
> Cathy
First played a guitar in college in '71. Bought
one in '72, and dinked around once in a while
until about 10 years ago. I'm still waiting to
get serious about it, but I really like what
playing it does for me. It is a great thing to be
able to do, whether really good, or not so good.
Maybe if I get a little better, I'll try noodling.
Maybe in the future.
Bob Alman
Lee D
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I started playing guitar at 14. I played a total POS that my dad had gotten
from Sears when I was around 4. I got MY first guitar (an electric) when I
was 15. I got my first acoustic when I was 19. I got my first (and only)
bass when I was 20. I play mostly acoustic now.
Lee D
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Steve Hawkins
12 years old for me. Paid $18 for my first guitar.
Steve Hawkins
Hedberg
>[...]
>
>Maybe if I get a little better, I'll try noodling.
>Maybe in the future.
>
>Bob Alman
An aspiring noodler -- I love it.
Harold
Steve Hawkins
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You can't be a true noodler in standard tuning.
Steve Hawkins
Noodle Thingy Productions
min...@minn.net
juncture and possibly now as well).
Yeah, I'm an attorney, but everyone needs a day job.
Hussman
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George W.
Started at 17. Peaked at 18. Been coasting for 37 years.
Actually I think I may be getting worse....
G.
Hedberg
wrote:
Steve
I hope I don't give anything away by telling you this -- wait till TX3
for a demonstration of noodling in standard tuning. Not by me, of
course, I don't have the "chops" to be a noodler and I can't even
spell DADGAD.
Harold
Joel Wummer
> Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
I started around 11 when mom took me to get the first guitar.
I remember having it the first day at home, strumming it without
fretting and saying "look I can play guitar!" and everyone else saying
"that's not playing guitar!".
> Eight also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
> young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
> don't understand chord and note relationships.
My son just turned 8 and I was thinking about getting him started
soon using the larrivee parlor... on the other hand it may be too
early for him, the issues of coordination may have some merit.
His sister started piano at 8, and has done pretty well with it.
Joel
hwc
"Cathy Cowette" <cath...@ainop.com> wrote in message
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I started in my 40s. But, I probably should have waited 'til my 50s, because
I'm not sure my hands and coordination are really developed enough yet!
Brian L. Rachford
>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
Age 29. I've been playing 3.5 years now, and coincidentally
I sound about like a 3-and-a-half year-old when I play. ;)
Brian Rachford
Waheed Sobhan
I picked it up when I was 16 or 17 (now nearly 20). Haven't put it
down since... i felt like i needed to make up for lost time. I had
always wished i had started earlier, with any kinda instrument.
Waheed
Bob Alman
Joel! Where the hell have you been?!
Bob Alman
Hojo2x
>I don't have the "chops" to be a noodler and I can't even>spell DADGAD.
This reminds me of the profound words of Julie Brown, in her immortal song "I'm
A Blonde":
"I took my IQ test and I flunked it, of course,
I can't spell "V W" but I got a Porsche!
Cuz I'm a blond (yeah yeah yeah)
Yes I'm a blond (yeah yeah yeah)
Wade Hampton "B-L-O-N-D" Miller
Threeships Mcduck
following to the group:
this just pisses me off ;) i started at 34, 5 year ago and i also make
my living from it.... if i don't play people let me live.
Threeships Mcduck
www.mothership.co.za
Chris Stern
Chris
"Waheed Sobhan" <gte...@prism.gatech.edu> wrote in message
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Jim Page
>>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
As soon after "A Hard Day's Night" as Sears could deliver that horrible
electric guitar I bought from them!!!
I still wonder if I would have made real progress on that instrument had it
been set up properly. I swear the strings were 1/4" off the neck by the
seventh fret. That is why I am so insistent to beginners whom I know that they
have their guitars set up nicely before they begin to learn. It makes all the
difference in the world.
Anyway, I guess that makes it 12 for me. I had been playing sax for four years
prior to that.
--Jim
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Troubleman (Jay Brown)
Hoffmann" on my violin. I was obcessed with the violin at the time. I heard
Jimi Hendrix' "Foxy Lady". It sounded alluring and frightening at the same
time. I wanted in. I started doodling around (no idea what I was doing) on
my father's old Kingston electric guitar that stood in the corner of my
parents' bedroom. A year later Santa Claus brought me a Japanese copy of a
Vox Phantom (5-sided oddball with single coil pickups). I learned to tune
the thing reading the appendix of a music book in school - had nothing to do
with the guitar, but I got lucky. It was as if I'd discovered the Dea Sea
Scrolls. Violin was never the same. A few years later, as a freshman in high
school, I met some guys who could actually "play" the guitar - chords, solo,
etc. Although I owned and doodled on a guitar, I'd say that was my real
starting point. I came home one night with diagrams for about a 1/2 dozen
chords. I sat up all night until I finally figured out how to play "Hey Joe"
by Jimi Hendrix. Once I'd gotten down the little riff, life changed
dramatically. That was 27 years ago. I didn't actually start playing
acoustic guitar (although I owned an Ovation - just to be able to say I
owned an acoustic) regularly until about three years ago. It was definately
a re-birth on the instrument.
peace,
jb
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JOHNPEARSE
to boarding school at five and a half, so I had lots of time to practise with
few distractions. By the age of ten I was supplementing my allowance by
teaching a bunch of other kids to play. I wrote my first guitar book/LP method
- Teach yourself Folk Guitar - at age eighteen and was teaching guitar on BBC
television - Hold Down A Chord - at age twentyfive.
Built my first guitar around the same time. Two years later I was teaching
instrument construction on an ATV t.v. series - Music Room - out of Birmingham.
Pretty much my whole life has revolved around the guitar.For me it's more than
a love. It's an obsession.
John Pearse.
No Busking
> Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar? It seems to me
> that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15.
I got a guitar for my 13th birthday. I had been taking piano lessons for
several years, and my interest in the piano stopped almost immediately with
the arrival of the guitar.
She went on...
> Eight
> also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit
to
> young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of
them
> don't understand chord and note relationships.
My kids have all expressed an interest in learning at about 5 or 6, and
they'll learn a chord or two, then put it down. With the two older ones,
that goes on and off until they're about 13, then something clicks and they
become competent guitarists. My 14-year-old is hitting her stride just
about now - she has a nice singing voice, and it's a real pleasure to hear
her practicing.
My 8-year-old son knows how to make a D, C, and G chord, but can't really
string them together...it'll be a few years, then he'll start to run with
it.
--
Michael Pugh
Cathy Cowette
"Steve Hawkins" <res0...@verizon.net> wrote in message
>
> 12 years old for me. Paid $18 for my first guitar.
>
> Steve Hawkins
My first was a Sears Silvertone, a $14.95 3/4 size model. I had to retune it
every time I switched chords.
Cathy
Cathy Cowette
"Joel Wummer" <jo...@spade.net> wrote in message
>
> My son just turned 8 and I was thinking about getting him started
> soon using the larrivee parlor... on the other hand it may be too
> early for him, the issues of coordination may have some merit.
> His sister started piano at 8, and has done pretty well with it.
>
> Joel
I remember my mother trying to teach me basic chord progressions on a dobro
at age 6. I kept complaining I wanted a real guitar, just like my uncle
Sonny's. Dad found an old guitar with a crack along the bottom side and
strung it up with fishing line. I thought I had a real treasure there.
Cathy
Kurt
>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar? It seems to me
>that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15. Eight
>also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
>young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
>don't understand chord and note relationships.
>I started at 8, but only because my uncle was determined that I was going to
>be a guitar player. I didn't really get serious about it until age 12 or so.
>
>Cathy
>
I think I first started at around 14. Then again at around 17. Again
around 22. Then again around 35. I think I started the last time
around 45. No quitter here!
Now my youngest son started at 6. I was (am) quite surprised that
he's stuck with it now for 3 years. He's won a couple of trophys at
his music school receitals... He's for sure be better than me real
soon. Amazing what he retains, and what he does from "feel". Now he
wants a mandolin. Just as long as he doesn't ask for a banjo.
Kurt
slabsides
Cowette" <cath...@ainop.com> asked:
> Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
Which time? First time, age 8. Lessons with a nasty gypsy woman who
would slap my hands with her rings when I hit a clunker on my cheap
acoustic archtop. Thirty empty years pass. (the Wandering in the
Desert.) Second time, age 38 when the wife surprised me with a nice but
not very expensive nylon string box, on which I first learned what
little music theory I know (via the Carcassi book,) and learned to love
the guitar again. Third time, after a pawnshop Yamaha, a no-name
Japanese Les Paul clone, and a Hagstrom archtop (the Age of
Exploration,) I finally got my stuff together and bought the Martin
D-35 at age 41. I'm now 67, the D plays better than ever, and I'll
probably never switch. (I DID send in the entry card for a free Gibson
L-200 from this month's issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine, so I'll be
playing that come next Spring...yaright!)
Ken (No, not that Ken, the other one)
Joe Jordan
>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
Age 11.
Joe
--
Joe D. Jordan, Ph.D.
Mobile, AL
Stan Milam
Cathy Cowette wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar? It seems to me
> that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15. Eight
> also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
> young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
> don't understand chord and note relationships.
> I started at 8, but only because my uncle was determined that I was going to
> be a guitar player. I didn't really get serious about it until age 12 or so.
>
> Cathy
I started at 16. I was desperate to learn some musical instrument,
and for some forgotten reason I had settled on the accordian. Then,
by the grace of God, David Wellborn stepped into my life and taught
me guitar. For this I will be eternally grateful.
Regards,
Stan Milam.
PHIL
QpQS8.36157$5M2.1...@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net, "Cathy Cowette"
<cath...@ainop.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
15...
...and 51.
The second start seems more promising.
No Busking
> and for some forgotten reason I had settled on the accordian.
?!?!?!?!?!
> Then,
> by the grace of God, David Wellborn stepped into my life and taught
> me guitar. For this I will be eternally grateful.
As are we.
;-)
--
Michael Pugh
Fred Becker
"Hojo2x" <hoj...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Cathy Cowette wrote:
>
> >At what age did you start playing guitar?
>
> 22.
>
> I was a late bloomer.
Started two years ago at age 69.
Until then I thought the guitar was a rhythm instrument.
the MartinMangler.
AG
"Cathy Cowette" <cath...@ainop.com> wrote in message
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> that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15.
Eight
> also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit
to
> young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of
them
> don't understand chord and note relationships.
> I started at 8, but only because my uncle was determined that I was going
to
> be a guitar player. I didn't really get serious about it until age 12 or
so.
>
> Cathy
>
AG
Fred Becker
> I started at 16. I was desperate to learn some musical instrument,
> and for some forgotten reason I had settled on the accordian. >
> Stan Milam.
>
>
PLEASE NOTE: The accordion IS NOT a musical instrument!!!
It was designed in medieval times as an instrument of torture.
the MarintMangler...........
el
My mom got me guitar lessons when I was 12. I really hated music
theory in the first year and after learning only two chords, I was
pretty bored by it and quit. Then after about a year of looking at my
cheap guitar collecting dust in the corner, I picked it up bought a
book with chords and started listening to my favourite songs. Soon I
was able to hit chords pretty well and started playing in the church,
camps etc. Now, at 23 I really regret not pushing myself through that
music theory. I wish I could read music. One of these days, I hope
something will snap in my brain (like it did after quitting the guitar
lessons) and I will learn to read music.
Currently, I'm shopping for a new guitar as my old acoustic/electric
(not the original from age 12) was stolen. I'm glad I discovered this
group and hope to get some motivation from here to improve my playing.
So, watch for that "I GOT A NEW GUITAR!" post. :)
P.S. oh btw, someone tell me what the heck does GAS stand for. I
understand its meaning but spell it out for me, will you? ;)
Ken Cashion
<cath...@ainop.com> wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
Cathy, I started playing the chords to "Mockingbird Hill" and
running everyone off our caliche hill on an oil-lease when I was
around 14. I got better but I was only playing country & western
backup and considering this was 1950, this was not too challenging.
Five years later, I still only had one year's experience but I
had it five times.
My only guitar was stolen and didn't play again until 1960 ( i
was 26 then) when I got another guitar to learn folk playing...I
consider that this was when I really started learning something
different.
That guitar was stolen (maybe it was my wife?) and I couldn't
afford another until 1962, and I continued to learn. I had an
emotional setback in 1986 and didn't start playing again until a
couple of years ago, mostly through the encouragement of this group.
I am learning a new music (again) so I consider that I have
been playing the guitar (or that kind of guitar) for two years.
I have a good memory and the other night while messing around,
I heard songs come out of my mouth that I might not have done since
VFW halls days in high school over 40 years ago. ( It doesn't seem
like it was that long ago, though. Where did that long, lean, hard,
good-looking kid go? If you see him, tell him Ken sure misses him.)
So, I guess I just keep starting over learning to play the
guitar. I am working hard to become mediocre.
Ken Cashion, no shame
Ken Cashion
Cathy, you might know that one of my very best friends is a
big Silvertone and we have gone all over the world together. I saved
him from a Corpus Christi hock shop for $32...Alamo Loan & Jewelry...
it didn't have a case but they sold me one for 50-cents...good deal...
both.
Ken Cashion
Ken Cashion
<cath...@ainop.com> wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
This is a good thread, Cathy. I am going to save it.
Ken Cashion
Kulaga, Joseph
strings. I didn't have much chance to learn to play it, however, because my
2-year old sister jumped on it and smashed it!
At age 17 I bought an acoustic guitar and started playing folk songs (early
Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, etc.) At 19 I bought my first electric
6-string and shortly thereafter an electric 12-string (loved McGuinn and the
Byrds). My band played college dances until graduation, then I joined a
wedding/lounge band and played until the ripe old age of 29 when work,
grad-school, a wife and first born son started demanding most of my time and
I retired. At age 55 I have the uncontrollable urge to start over again,
which is why I've been lurking in this newsgroup for a few months. Time to
buy a good acoustic guitar and rebuild those callouses!!
Mike Dotson
Ted Banks
>12 years old for me. Paid $18 for my first guitar.
>
>Steve Hawkins
Oh man Hawk, you're a GEEZER!
But I'm sure I've got you beat, buddy ;-). I got my first guitar at age 11 in
the early '60s when my family lived in South America. My Dad was a Peace Corps
Director and I believe he paid 100 pesos ($10) for that hand-made instrument of
questionable craftsmanship.
Since then I've had better guitars. MUCH better than I deserve...
Ted Banks
SDPixley
The first guitar was a Gretch duojet ($ 90 in 1974). Leads were easier
then due to the violin and music training.
I personally think taking up the first instrument is hardest because you
have to learn music at the same time you learn the instrument.
Shawn
Mike Rickard
"Cathy Cowette" wrote > Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing
guitar?
Mike
Joe Jordan
<snip>
>Since then I've had better guitars. MUCH better than I deserve...
I didn't realize you'd had a Framus...
Kulaga, Joseph
bravely "adjusted" the nut slot depths and bridge height and it had very
good action for a cheap guitar - the neck was surprisingly good, though I do
remember tightening the truss rod on occasion. I later bought something
much better, but I actually made some money playing that Sears guitar for a
couple of years!
"Jim Page" <jim...@aol.comFRAMUS> wrote in message
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David Eastwood
>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar? It seems to me
>that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15. Eight
>also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
>young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
>don't understand chord and note relationships.
>I started at 8, but only because my uncle was determined that I was going to
>be a guitar player. I didn't really get serious about it until age 12 or so.
>
>Cathy
>
Started at age 14 with an Egmond archtop purchased for 15 pounds. I
also got a copy of Bert Weedon's Play In A Day book.
I'm now 46, and boy, it's been a long Day......
Cheers,
David
------------------------------------------------------
David Eastwood - eats...@mchsi.com
David Kilpatrick
Cathy Cowette wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar? It seems to me
> that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15. Eight
> also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
> young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
> don't understand chord and note relationships.
> I started at 8, but only because my uncle was determined that I was going to
> be a guitar player. I didn't really get serious about it until age 12 or so.
>
About 12-13. Before that I had played ukelele banjo from age about five, and
mandolin from age about 8 or so. I definitely took my father's mandolin
to boarding school when I was around 10-12 years old, and I had an
electric guitar of some sort around 13. I remember painting an acoustic
with op-art patterns copied from Briget Riley, which would have been
around 1965-6, aged 13-14; I made a mahogany bodied electric using the
neck of a s/h Rosetto when I was about 14-15. I got a proper acoustic,
Ibanez dreadnought, for my 17th birthday which was just after I had been
to France and learned about Jansch, Renbourn, ragtime and blues
fingerpicking. I had certainly started trying this stuff before buying
the Ibanez, so properly, from about 17 onwards (anything prior to that
was Shadows instrumentals, Beatles strummed backing etc - not real
playing at all).
David
Bob N
if you stick around we can all drown out the trolls! And don't forget to
get to a Gathering if you can. Meeting each other and playing music
together is powerful good medicine.
Bob
Ted Banks
>
>Ted Banks wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>>Since then I've had better guitars. MUCH better than I deserve...
>
>I didn't realize you'd had a Framus...
>
>Joe
Shuck. I never had a Framus. But after my family moved back to the States I DID
own a couple of Silvertone electrics! Does that count?? I was (and remain)
unworthy...
Ted Banks
gtrplr
>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar? It seems to me
>that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15. Eight
>also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
>young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
>don't understand chord and note relationships.
>I started at 8, but only because my uncle was determined that I was going to
>be a guitar player. I didn't really get serious about it until age 12 or so.
>
>Cathy
I started about age seven. My mother introduced me to her archtop
Epiphone (which my brother still has). I was too small to hold it, so
I put the body on the couch, my right arm over the neck. She showed me
how to make a one-finger G chord (index finger on the E string, 3rd
fret, strum the bottom 4 stings). I went to school the next day and
told all my classmates I was learning to play guitar. They all laughed
at me, so I decided I'd learn to play just 'cause "that'll show
them!". Isn't anger a great motivational tool? ;-) I've been playing
now for (censored) years. I played for a living (if you can call it
living) for 25 of those years. I've played in 42 states, two provinces
of Canada, Mexico, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Holland, France,
Switzerland and Alabama. Thanks to Mom and her Epiphone for starting
it all.
Randal Smith alias Smitty the Kid
gtr...@go.com
www.i-s-o-p.com
"We have enough Youth, how about a Fountain of Smart?"
"Hope I die before I get old" - The Who (RIP, John Entwhistle)
Steve Hawkins
news:35272275.0...@drn.newsguy.com:
I would be more than happy to help you beat that guilt. Send me the
Walker!
Steve Hawkins
vibrajet
"Waheed Sobhan" wrote...
> I picked it up when I was 16 or 17 (now nearly 20).
Wow! Now nearly not a little kid any more. >8^)
> I had
> always wished i had started earlier
That's funny - I thought the same thing at age nine.
Timothy Juvenal
vibrajet
9 years old, 1966. Took "orchestral style" lessons every week till outta
high school, then started studying country blues and classical. Now more
interested in jazz.
Timothy Juvenal
Ted Banks
>
>Cathy Cowette wrote:
>
>>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
>
>
And the year was 1953... Right, Joe? <g>
TAB-)
gtrplr
<fwb...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>PLEASE NOTE: The accordion IS NOT a musical instrument!!!
>It was designed in medieval times as an instrument of torture.
>
>the MarintMangler...........
I've also heard this said of the bagpipe. And the banjo.
Randal Smith alias Smitty the Kid
gtr...@go.com
www.i-s-o-p.com
"We have enough Youth, how about a Fountain of Smart?"
"I don't like politcal jokes. . . I've seen too many of them get
elected."
Ted Banks
>I would be more than happy to help you beat that guilt. Send me the
>Walker!
>
>Steve Hawkins
>
I appreciate the offer! Hmmmm. Practice with that thumbpick a little bit
more... <g>
TAB-)
jc
"Threeships Mcduck" <anton (AT) mothership.co.za> wrote in message
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> On 28 Jun 2002 03:40:28 GMT, hoj...@aol.com (Hojo2x) served the
> following to the group:
>
> >Cathy Cowette wrote:
> >
> >>At what age did you start playing guitar?
> >
> >22.
> >
> >I was a late bloomer.
> >
making
> >my living at it.
> >
> >
> >
> >Wade Hampton Miller
> >Chugiak, Alaska
>
>
> this just pisses me off ;) i started at 34, 5 year ago and i also make
> my living from it.... if i don't play people let me live.
>
>
>
> Threeships Mcduck
> www.mothership.co.za
I'll second that one! Not to mention, all my blooming is around my
stomach........
Cheers,
jc
Karl Johnson
>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
I started at age 16 on an Aria Classical. Learned while working at a
summer camp as kitchen help.
Presently I am trying to teach my 9 yr old daughter to play. We got a
Larrivee Parlor a year and a half ago to teach her on. I have been
using the video "Smart Start Guitar" and it seems to help. Biggest
problem is getting past the sorre finger tips.
Karl
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> Just out of curiosity, when did you start
> playing guitar?
I started in my late 20's... bought a guitar from a Peace Corps
guy in Costa Rica (a nice Gibson steel string) and brought it
back to the U.S. I met another player down there who was into
fingerstyle -- Gary Davis, jazz, etc. That was unusual at the
time. He helped get me going on guitar.
But I was a rock drummer (with a smattering of formal jazz
drumming instruction) from the age of 13 to 19. So the typical
teen starter years were on another instrument.
Mike Barrs
Joel Wummer
Joel
Cathy Cowette wrote:
> "Joel Wummer" <jo...@spade.net> wrote in message
>
>>My son just turned 8 and I was thinking about getting him started
>>soon using the larrivee parlor...
>
> I remember my mother trying to teach me basic chord progressions on a dobro
> at age 6. I kept complaining I wanted a real guitar, just like my uncle
> Sonny's. Dad found an old guitar with a crack along the bottom side and
> strung it up with fishing line. I thought I had a real treasure there.
>
> Cathy
>
>
>
Joel Wummer
doing a lot of noodling on my guitar.
(I enjoy seeing your posts when I
check out the group.)
Joel
Bob Alman wrote:
>
> Joel! Where the hell have you been?!
>
> Bob Alman
>
Charlie Gibbs
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>Hedberg <hhed...@swbell.net> wrote in
>news:49qnhu8pmpk28oou9...@4ax.com:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 03:58:07 GMT, Bob Alman <g...@sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>Maybe if I get a little better, I'll try noodling.
>>>Maybe in the future.
>>>
>>>Bob Alman
>>
>> An aspiring noodler -- I love it.
>>
>> Harold
>
>You can't be a true noodler in standard tuning.
Anyone can noodle in DADGAD, but it takes a Real Player
to noodle in standard tuning.
>Steve Hawkins
>Noodle Thingy Productions
Hey! Put that thing away!
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Cowette <cath...@ainop.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
I started about 13 or 14. I would have started earlier, but my mother
didn't particularly think the guitar was a "real" instrument. Actually,
she did give me a Stella and a Nick Manoloff book when I was 10 or 11,
but I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. So I played piano until I
learned on my own -- classical piano teachers didn't teach this stuff
-- that many songs could be played with the I, IV, and V chords. Then I
managed to get some kind of German archtop with no perceivable name but
lots of mother-of-toilet-seat. I made do with that and, on occasion, a
deArmond pickup and a borrowed amp, until I was in college.
Now I have a new Kinscherff, about which I might gush again at any
moment. Please call Jamie and congratulate him! :-) (Yeah, right I bet
he'd really enjoy getting calls from everybody on RMMGA this
afternoon.)
> Eight
> also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
> young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
> don't understand chord and note relationships.
Hmmm -- my grandson started guitar lessons a little over a year ago,
just before his fifth birthday, and is doing well. One thing I observe
is that his fine motor skills are now far beyond his age, though they
weren't before. I'm inclined to think the guitar-playing is directly
related to this improvement. I doubt he understands much theory, but
he's learning to read pretty well.
--Al Evans--
jc
"Cathy Cowette" <cath...@ainop.com> wrote in message
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Started tinkering, doodling when I was 8 or 10, then took up the clarinet
when I was 12, along with beating around on the piano the whole time.
Didn't get serious about the guitar until I was about 16 though. Never was
any good (at any of them) but had lots of fun. Had to quit when I was
around 35 or so as my carpal tunnel got so bad I couldn't do anything with
either hand. Just took it back up a couple of months ago. I've had the
carpal tunnel fixed for the last 8 years or so but never had time for music.
Damn, I missed it! Still not any good but having fun again.
Cheers,
jc
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Cathy Cowette wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
Age about nine or ten 1958/9 - first simple chords on a late c.19th 4-string
tenor guitar with nylon strings and friction pegs. My hand could cope.
Then age 12/13 my father taught me a few chords on a six string steel and also a
wire wound nylon strung guitar. Progressed slowly, but could sing a few songs
tentatively.
At age 17/18 tried to play some blues guitar - making slow progress - but then
switched to piano almost exclusively for a while. Made much progress on piano.
Next 30 years - attended a lot of clubs and concerts and occasionally tried to
pick up a steel string and play it. Played piano a bit. Fingers hurt like hell
on guitars.
1988 - given a cheap old six string and started to play again occasionally.
Action bad, but good finger strengtheners.
1994 - father died and inherited a Korean built Fender. Easy to play and
started to play a lot more. Started to learn songs and eventually to perform in
front of a few people.
1997 - Got the worn-out Fender Gemini refretted and the set up improved - bone
saddle; and then bought an old Martin D35 from the luthier tech who did the work
and set-up. (that guitar just rang out for me)
1998 - Started attending and playing and singing in several folk and acoustic
clubs around London.
The very first time, given encouragement to do it regularly by stunningly
beautiful and very talented lady singer (I will never forget that gesture in
relation to what I now say to beginners) Same time - I hit rmmga and learned a
great deal more than I'd have ever done otherwise.
2002 - These days helping to run a local acoustic club; arranging concerts,
playing every week in jam and club sessions and also the occasional concert -
next ones scheduled at Xmas time this year.
Enjoying having music an important part of my leisure life.
Gan canny,
Chris R.
Cathy Cowette
> Wow. Kids are spoiled these days.
>
> Joel
>
They sure are. When my 20 year old comes to visit me, he walks in and says,
"Hi Mom. Where's the Martin?" I remember when I was a kid, I wasn't allowed
to touch my mother's guitar. It was off limits.
Cathy
Cathy Cowette
"Kurt" <ande...@snet.net> wrote in message
>
> I think I first started at around 14. Then again at around 17. Again
> around 22. Then again around 35. I think I started the last time
> around 45. No quitter here!
>
> Now my youngest son started at 6. I was (am) quite surprised that
> he's stuck with it now for 3 years. He's won a couple of trophys at
> his music school receitals... He's for sure be better than me real
> soon. Amazing what he retains, and what he does from "feel". Now he
> wants a mandolin. Just as long as he doesn't ask for a banjo.
>
> Kurt
I've noticed some people seemed to be predestined to become guitar players.
From my earliest memories, I was always fascinated with the guitar. When
most girls were asking their parents for the newest Barbie Doll, I was
asking for a guitar.
If I were you, I'd just let your son go at his own pace. I tried "easing"
(forcing) my sons to play guitar when they hit their teenage years, but they
didn't seem interested. A few years later they both took it up on their own,
kind of as secondary instruments. My oldest son is primarily a drummer and
my youngest plays bass, and they each noodle around with the guitar. To each
his own, I guess.
Cathy
Cathy Cowette
"SDPixley" <sdpi...@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> I took up guitar at 14. Previously, I had 8 year of classical violin.
> The first guitar was a Gretch duojet ($ 90 in 1974). Leads were easier
> then due to the violin and music training.
>
> I personally think taking up the first instrument is hardest because you
> have to learn music at the same time you learn the instrument.
>
> Shawn
I don't know that I agree with that. I've been playing various musical
instruments for 35 years now. Recently I decided to take up the fiddle, and
I'm finding it to be very difficult. It's so completely different than
anything I've played. I have the most trouble keeping the bow moving in the
right direction, and coorinating my left hand to change notes at the same
time that I bow the note. Most of the time I end up sound like a sick goat.
B-a-a-a-a-a-d-d-d-d. B-a-a-a-a-a-d-d-d-d.
Cathy
Kurt
<cath...@ainop.com> wrote:
>If I were you, I'd just let your son go at his own pace. I tried "easing"
>(forcing) my sons to play guitar when they hit their teenage years, but they
>didn't seem interested. A few years later they both took it up on their own,
>kind of as secondary instruments. My oldest son is primarily a drummer and
>my youngest plays bass, and they each noodle around with the guitar. To each
>his own, I guess.
Cathy,
Excellent advice. My son literally begged to be allowed to take
guitar lessons when he was 5. We told him he had to wait until he was
6. I've had a discussion with every teacher that he's ever had that
*my* objective is that he have fun, and be allowed to find his own
muse. I've told them that I'm not looking for specific improvement;
but more to give him things to try, to experiment, to have fun.
He became fascinated with a mandolin I recently purchased. After a
good report card, each of the kids got to give input on something
they'd like. Kevin asked for a mandolin. I'm happy to get one for
him, even if it's just to 'noodle' around on.
Kurt
Peter MacDonald
> Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar? It seems to me
> that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15.
Age 13. I was determined to be the next Paul Simon. I'm not.
Peter
Cathy Cowette
,
>
> Excellent advice. My son literally begged to be allowed to take
> guitar lessons when he was 5. We told him he had to wait until he was
> 6. I've had a discussion with every teacher that he's ever had that
> *my* objective is that he have fun, and be allowed to find his own
> muse. I've told them that I'm not looking for specific improvement;
> but more to give him things to try, to experiment, to have fun.
>
> He became fascinated with a mandolin I recently purchased. After a
> good report card, each of the kids got to give input on something
> they'd like. Kevin asked for a mandolin. I'm happy to get one for
> him, even if it's just to 'noodle' around on.
>
> Kurt
Every time I go to New Brunswick for fiddling lessons, I'm amazed by all the
young kids, ranging from ages 5 to 15, who are learning to play. Some of the
10 to 12 year olds have been playing now for about 5 years. One, in
particular, an 11 year old, red headed boy is totally obsessed with it. He
can keep up to some of the adults who have been playing for 40 years. He's
even writing his own jigs and reels.
Most of these kids have fewer inhibitions than the adult students. When they
first start taking lessons, they don't care how they sound. They just want
to play and be heard, whereas most of the adult beginners sit in the back
corner of the room and play as softly as possible, fearful of the fact that
someone will hear them. One year's worth of lessons for a kid is equal to
about three years for most adults.
Cathy
Rich Kelley
Rich Kelley
Cathy Cowette (cath...@ainop.com) wrote:
: Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar? It seems to me
: that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15. Eight
: also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
: young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
: don't understand chord and note relationships.
: I started at 8, but only because my uncle was determined that I was going to
MichaelDunniganD
Just a couple of questions:
From my basic grasp of arithmetic I work out that you dropped the guitar in
favour of the piano round about the time of WOODSTOCK!
So what kind of drugs exactly were you into in those days??? Hendrix is up
there burning strats and doing all sorts to the US national anthem and you're
playing chopstix? MMMmmmm
Oh, the other question is... I don't suppose if you know that the beautiful and
talented lady singer is still in London ... just a thought...!
BTW got my first guitar about 9 or 10 after a couple of years playing cornet
and trombone (which helped me get my head around the old 'black dots on the 5
horizontal lines malarkey')
Cheers
Michael D
Chris Rockcliffe
MichaelDunniganD wrote:
> Great and detailed post Chris
>
> Just a couple of questions:
>
> From my basic grasp of arithmetic I work out that you dropped the guitar in
> favour of the piano round about the time of WOODSTOCK!
No not exactly.
Guitar interest just fell away. I now know that not having a decent instrument nor
two pennies to rub together didn't help. The guitar I did have was awful.
I started into blues and particularly Chicago style blues piano seriously at around
age 16 and wanted to be Otis Spann in particular (but also Ray Charles and Charles
Brown too). The sound of those Muddy Waters Band lineups of the late 50's to
middle 60's being the apex of that Chicago blues sound IMO.
I actually had met the guy (Spann) briefly IIRC not long before he died - must have
been 67/68? At that gig, one of the young girls at my college ran off with the
cute young black bass player of the MW band and she ended up touring all over
Europe with them for several weeks. She got to know Muddy very well too and would
sit playing cards and chatting with him for hours. A very intelligent man she
thought. She came back with loads of stories.
> So what kind of drugs exactly were you into in those days??? Hendrix is u6p
> there burning strats and doing all sorts to the US national anthem and you're
> playing chopstix? MMMmmmm
Ha Ha. At that age it was cheap wine (yuk) and good smoke. Hendrix burning Strats
and the Who smashing gear up, always seemed fucking daft to me and excessively
wasteful. Woodstock was mostly a big disappointment for me musically - maybe I
expected too much - although Cocker & Grease Band, TYA and Santana were high spots
for me at the time - even the Who (yeah RIP) it was a hell of a movie at the time
otherwise.
But by age 20 when, IIRC, that movie came out, I was getting quite good on piano
and playing a lot. People told me I was quite good. Got on local TV once in an
evening of blues and poetry. Ray Jackson - a great harp and mando' player,
ex-Lindisfarne used to play with me and sing.
I was asked to go professional by some band friends, (who did well) but turned the
offer down in favour of an ad' agency job offered in London. I'm afraid I just let
it all collapse - the regular keyboard playing that is, but it's picked up just a
bit since I moved up here to Buxton. I need to get a keyboard to play on.
> Oh, the other question is... I don't suppose if you know that the beautiful and
> talented lady singer is still in London ... just a thought...!
Funny you should ask that. (I thought she was very attractive anyway) I read about
her again quite recently in a folk magazine someone gave me (reviewing her 2nd or
3rd album) and it appears she's left London now and settled in Wales. So not at
that particular Sharp's club anymore.
Her encouragement at a critical time for me was almost life changing. Her website
(need to check it out myself): <http://uk.geocities.com/faithless_97/page2.html>
You should try Sharps one night (Tuesdays at the EFDSS in Camden Town) They put on
some good concerts too.
> BTW got my first guitar about 9 or 10 after a couple of years playing cornet
> and trombone (which helped me get my head around the old 'black dots on the 5
> horizontal lines malarkey')
I wish I'd conquered musical standard notation, but I've managed without it
anyway. Cornet? trombone? Reminds me of John Jorgenson (Desert Rose Band etc) who
is not just a bril' guitarist, but plays a mean sax too. Trying to get him on in
Buxton, but it's a probably a bit steep for our venue.
You're a great guitar player Michael... and how come we didn't play much together
at this last UK5? We always seemed to be in different rooms!
Gan canny,
Chris R.
Steve
that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15.>>
Around 11.
SEFSTRAT
music webpage: http://members.aol.com/sefstrat/index.html/sefpage.html
John Pitts
hadn't played much since she was a teenager, and some lessons.
--
John Pitts
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Gurusvw
><<Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
Age 18, 1969
Age 20, 1971 (also learned out about hashish)
Off and on thru the remaining years, mostly off. Became serious(age 51) when I
stumbled into here a few years ago. A move I've never regreted.
I've two sons, one 16 that have no interest in guitar what so ever. One 24, who
wants to learn..maybe!
Great topic
Jerry Gant
Tony Weber
George.
I'll let you know when I actually start playing the beasts.
Tony Weber
Cathy Cowette wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
>
> Cathy
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Lee D
Then I
> managed to get some kind of German archtop with no perceivable name but
> lots of mother-of-toilet-seat.
I was wondering what those white dots on my Yamaha (sold it) were. Must
have been mother-of-toilet-seat. At least it's better than the nylon string
thing I began on. The dots were painted on.
Lee D
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MichaelDunniganD
Got it - I'll check her out in a bit
>You're a great guitar player Michael... and how come we didn't play much
>together
>at this last UK5? We always seemed to be in different rooms!
Too kind - There were indeed many rooms to get lost in at Buxton this year -
even more than last year!
You're on for next year though!
Cheers
MIchael D
Jeff Carter
>also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
>young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
>don't understand chord and note relationships.
I started at 8, but didn't get serious until 15...does that count? At 17 I
started classical, and was a CG performance major in college. I remember two
guys in the dept.had started at the age of 5. One of them, Ricardo Cobo, has
made quite a name for himself in that world.
--Jeff
Bill Chandler
group:
>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar? It seems to me
>that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15. Eight
>also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
>young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
>don't understand chord and note relationships.
>I started at 8, but only because my uncle was determined that I was going to
>be a guitar player. I didn't really get serious about it until age 12 or so.
Started at 10, got serious about it at 14.
Now I'm 40...where has the time gone?
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Hojo2x
>Most of these kids have fewer inhibitions than the adult students.
Amen!!
>When they>first start taking lessons, they don't care how they sound. They
just want>to play and be heard, whereas most of the adult beginners sit in the
back >corner of the room and play as softly as possible, fearful of the fact
that>someone will hear them.
AMEN!!
>One year's worth of lessons for a kid is equal to>about three years for most
adults.
PREACH it, Sister Cathy! Do I have a WITNESS?!?
I say, DO I have a WITNESS?!?
No?
Okay, I'll give a witness myself.
I just got done teaching a music camp for kids, and taught a couple of private
lessons to one of the moms on the side.
The mom was so busy giggling in embarrassment over not being proficient that
she got very little accomplished.
I wanted to say: "Look, I KNOW you're not proficient, that's why you're paying
me for the LESSON, for crying out loud," but over the years I've learned that
saying that makes them even MORE self-conscious.
So I'm patient.
I'm being PAID to be patient.
But young students require less patience than adult students, I think....
Wade Hampton Miller
Chugiak, Alaska
Hojo2x
of the Commonwealth countries, wrote:
>Now, at 23 I really regret not pushing myself through that>music theory. I
wish I could read music.
El, it's just practice and doing it every day.
When I was in the Alaska Artists In The Schools Program and teaching music to
Eskimo kids in a school in a Yupik-speaking village in the Southwest Arctic,
they were going through so much of the material I had so fast that I had to
scare up a lot of new stuff, much of it unfamiliar to me.
So my evenings were spent researching songs, and my sight-reading skills grew
by several orders of magnitude.
Now that I'm not sight-reading every evening those skills have atrophied to an
extent, but I know I can retrieve them should I need them.
El concludes:
>oh btw, someone tell me what the heck does GAS stand for. I>understand its
meaning but spell it out for me, will you? ;)
Typical cutesy newsgroup acronym - it stands for "Guitar Acquisition Syndrome."
Before anyone jumps me for my less than reverent attitude towards acronyms, my
position is that these sorts of abbreviations and acronyms should be spelled
out when first used, thusly: "Guitar Acquisition Syndrome, (GAS.)"
After that use the acronym all you want, but since the idea of newsgroup
posting is COMMUNICATION, not CLUBBINESS and EXCLUSION of the UNINITIATED, it
should be spelled out the first time through.
My truly fearsome eighth grade English teacher would have ALL your butts for
breaking THAT particular rule......
I know it's pointless to try to instill this basic principle into the
undisciplined rabble that is RMMGA (many of whose less reputable members are
dropping their trousers and mooning the screen as they read this,) mainly
because it's infinitely easier to just type "GAS" than it is to type out
"Guitar Acquisition Syndrome, (GAS.)"
But on occasion I feel obliged to honor the memory of that nasty old bat of an
English teacher, unpleasant as she was as a human being, for no other reason
that - on this point, at least - she was RIGHT.
Of course, it's not like she would THANK me for doing battle on her behalf.
I'm sure she'd take me to task for all those obnoxious CAPITAL LETTERS with
which my posts are strewn.
But that's another issue.....
T-bone
snipped
> I know it's pointless to try to instill this basic principle into the
> undisciplined rabble that is RMMGA (many of whose less reputable members are
> dropping their trousers and mooning the screen as they read this,)
How'd you know?
You got a camera in my house or something?
Dorgan
No Busking
> undisciplined rabble that is RMMGA (many of whose less reputable members
are
> dropping their trousers and mooning the screen as they read this,) mainly
> because it's infinitely easier to just type "GAS" than it is to type out
> "Guitar Acquisition Syndrome, (GAS.)"
Wade, RMMGA stands for rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic.
You didn't note it in your post, so newcomers might not have been aware of
the usage.
PPPPPHHHHHHLLLLLTTTTT!
--
Michael Pugh
Hojo2x
acronym GAS (short for "Guitar Acquisition Syndrome,") saying:
>> I know it's pointless to try to instill this basic principle into the>>
undisciplined rabble that is RMMGA
Michael Pugh employed his remarkably keen-edged stilleto of a brain, found just
the right spot between my ribs, and wrote:
>Wade, RMMGA stands for rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic.
>
>You didn't note it in your post, so newcomers might not have been aware of
>the usage.
>
>PPPPPHHHHHHLLLLLTTTTT!
Busted! BUSTED!! Oh, man, I am SO busted!!
I'm going to go hide under the bed.
Better yet, my insomnia is wearing off, and I think I will actually GO to bed.
Wade Hampton "Man, I Can't Believe I MISSED That!" Miller
Chugiak, Alaska
Cathy Cowette
"Hojo2x" <hoj...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Halla...hellalu.....hellajueha...halleluiah...or however you spell it!
Cathy
Amostagain
Not a moment to soon.
Amostagain
that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15. >>
People always ask me " How Long have you been playing?" As I get older it gets
harder & harder to figure out so now I finally figured out just to say I
started in 8th or 9th grade, then I say you do the math & they usually don't
ask how old I am.
1 eyed jack
"T-bone" <dor...@fltg.net> wrote in message news:3D1ED5...@fltg.net...
Who needs a camera? He probably has your ass hanging on the wall over his
computer next to the possum pelts and jackalope heads.
JD
Cathy Cowette
"Amostagain" <amost...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20020630092117...@mb-ca.aol.com...
> People always ask me " How Long have you been playing?" As I get older it
gets
> harder & harder to figure out so now I finally figured out just to say I
> started in 8th or 9th grade, then I say you do the math & they usually
don't
> ask how old I am.
I really have a hard time answering the "how long have you been playing"
question, too. I started when I was 8 and played steadily until I got
married and had kids. Then I gave it up for about 13 years. My husband
wasn't a fan, so to speak. So, I got rid of the husband and bought a new
guitar. That's the best move I've ever made!
Cathy
Amostagain
Cathy
>>
wise choice.
Michael James Richard Brown
in the RAF at Little Rissington. I was given a real TPOS (cheap and
broken) which was my first experience of guitar repair. When I got out
of the RAF, I swapped the guitar, which looked and sounded better (not
good just better) for a b***o. A few months later I traded the b***o
on my first new guitar (I now realize that a Vega was worth much more
than thr guitar that I traded it in on --- Ho Hum). When I left
England for the penal colonies in 1962, my father, because I had no
case for my guitar, swapped me for his beautiful classical instrument,
which is still the foundation stone of my subsequent collection. I
recently crowned the set by buying a Martin HD-28V, and ordering a
handmade Grand Concert Cutaway from a local luthier. When I get the
Grand Concert later this year or early next, I can't see that I will
be able to justify, even to myself, any more new guitars, although - -
- - - - - a brass bodied reso would be nice. It never really stops
does it. Michael B
Michael James Richard Brown
<kul...@cmt.anl.gov> wrote:
SNIPPED
> At age 55 I have the uncontrollable urge to start over again,
>which is why I've been lurking in this newsgroup for a few months. Time to
>buy a good acoustic guitar and rebuild those callouses!!
>
>
Joseph. Welcome back. The compulsion only hides, it doesn't go away.
Stop lurking ang jump in. Michael B
Ed B.
I started taking lessons, but found it very difficult at the time. I
didn't take serious lessons until I was in my teens, which was when I
started really playing. I don't play for a living, so its been on and
off ever since.
I've been playing every day since getting on this newsgroup a few
years ago, and I seem to HAVE to play the Collings an awfull lot. That
guitar just keeps me opening up the case all the time.
-Ed B.
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 23:04:39 -0400, "Cathy Cowette"
<cath...@ainop.com> wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar? It seems to me
>that the majority of people I've spoken with started at about age 15. Eight
>also seems to be a popular age, although, I think that is probably a bit to
>young. An 8 year old has not developed enough coordination and most of them
>don't understand chord and note relationships.
>I started at 8, but only because my uncle was determined that I was going to
>be a guitar player. I didn't really get serious about it until age 12 or so.
>
>Cathy
>
-Ed Bianchi
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Tom Reese
<cath...@ainop.com> wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, when did you start playing guitar?
I started trying to learn when I was 46. I don't know how old I'll be
when I finally figure out how to play.
Tom Reese