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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: BoneMan]
    #7412605 - 09/15/07 10:00 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

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BoneMan said:
Anyone who's picking up guitar to look cool or get laid probably won't last 6 months on it.  It takes years to be good enough to actually impress people, including other musicians. 

For me its all about the buzz I get during and after a jam with other people that happened on the fly and happened to work out wonderfully.

18 is a great age to start out.  I started at 15, now I'm 22. In the last seven years I've gotten good enough to steal the drummer from a band that gigs regularly in my area, yet I had no band at the time for him to join.

Its really fun at first learning to play simple songs (for me it was Bob marley and Sublime stuff, easy reggae rhythms, no unusual chords, easy to sing over)

Frustration is inevitable, you just have to remind yourself that every minute of practice is making you better and better.  So when it gets too frustrating, you put down your instrument and pick up again tomorrow. It works if you love music.




:handth: Exactly! Very well put.


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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #7417869 - 09/16/07 08:43 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

My parents signed me up for piano lessons when I was in 2nd grade.

I picked up trombone in 5th grade...quickly dropped it....and then started playing guitar when I was 14.

I don't play a whole lot anymore, but once you get to a certain level of mediocre-ness, you can basically just start playing guitar again at any time in your life and still be pretty good. Which has been my route. It's just nice that after all those years practicing and getting better, even though I've more or less lost interest when I just feel the need to jam or sing corny folk songs, I'm capable of doing so without much effort.

18 definitely isn't too late. Get an acoustic (that way if you want to switch to electric it will be MUCH easier). practice alot until your fingers hurt beyond belief, then do the same thing tomorrow and the next day.

If you want to know how to read music, form chords, etc. (which definitely isn't a requirement)---it might be boring, but START learning it from the very beginning! Piano is awesome, but to be honest it's a lot harder than guitar, in my opinion. Or perhaps, guitar seemed easy to me because I already knew piano?


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Re: For those of you who play an instrument [Re: massromantic]
    #7421202 - 09/17/07 08:09 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

It is never too late to learn.

You need patience, and support can be good.


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