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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Are ya kiddin'?!?! I wish I never stopped trying to learn to play during my 33+ year hiatus!
Had the Internet resources been available back when I was a teener or even later in life, I would have never put the git down.
I also regret not seeking nor taking the advantage to meet those of similar ilk! |
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Location: PDX | Oh yes, but i would've liked to have started earlier and then kept at it instead of taking a 35 year break.
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Location: Wichita, KS | Absolutely! My only regret is not sticking with lessons as a teenager. I had such a wonderful teacher, Paul Sparacella. I gave up the lessons to take a job stocking groceries. At the time, earning money for gasoline and records seemed more important. To think what I could have learned from that man... |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Well, I'm not a guy, but I AM old. And I don't even know who I'd be if I'd never learned to play guitar. It's been one of the greatest joys of my life. My guitar is my best friend. It's never lied to me, never betrayed me, always been there to comfort me when I'm down, to celebrate with me when life is going well, and to challenge me when I get too overconfident. Yeah, I'd do it again. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I also wish I'd started earlier and stayed with it. Like Greg, I stopped for many years I really didn't have a good excuse. If I'd have practiced guitar instead of watching TV, I'd be killer. I might be bored now though, since there's a bunch of old songs I still need to learn, but not many new ones that interest me. Maybe I'd be writing my own. |
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| Same, Same; wish I did not get out of it back in the mid 80's and give up. And then not wake up and get back into this until around the time I joined this group. About 19 years for me.....what a waste.....
Music is something I find a passion for that is unlike anything else. Family is Family and that can't be compared, but music is such a satisfying pastime. Learning holds as much fascination as performing.
I think I would be fairly accomplished by now if I stayed with it. So yeah I'd do it again. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Lol!
I echo iffy when he said: "I wish I never stopped trying to learn to play during my 33+ year hiatus!"
My hiatus (ie.: lost time) was 25 years.
Wish I hadn't chickened out, and had kept at it, and had become the spectacular guitar hero I oughta be...
But, I'm just me...
*sigh*
At least the kids still like me. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
Well, I'm not a guy, but I AM old. And I don't even know who I'd be if I'd never learned to play guitar. It's been one of the greatest joys of my life. My guitar is my best friend. It's never lied to me, never betrayed me, always been there to comfort me when I'm down, to celebrate with me when life is going well, and to challenge me when I get too overconfident. Yeah, I'd do it again. Hmmmmmm...methinks therein lies a tale... |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I'm still tryin... |
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Location: Vernon CT | The question for me should be: Should I have started sooner? The answer is still, YES. Always wanted to but didn't start until I was 46. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
I'm still tryin... +1 :D
I woulda done it SOONER! (started when I was 49) |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by AlanM:
Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
Well, I'm not a guy, but I AM old. And I don't even know who I'd be if I'd never learned to play guitar. It's been one of the greatest joys of my life. My guitar is my best friend. It's never lied to me, never betrayed me, always been there to comfort me when I'm down, to celebrate with me when life is going well, and to challenge me when I get too overconfident. Yeah, I'd do it again. Hmmmmmm...methinks therein lies a tale... |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by BT717:
The question for me should be: Should I have started sooner? The answer is still, YES. Always wanted to but didn't start until I was 46. 46?? There's hope for me yet! |
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Location: Chicago | Hell yes! I got hooked at 11. Still learning new stuff daily forty years later. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Oh yes!
I wish I knew then what I know now. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Started picking at 22; 56 in two weeks. No hiatus, but I only really play well enough not to embarass myself publicly.
Would I have started playing again? Absolutely. Would I do it the same way? Absolutely not. I would have taken real lessons, not scraps gleaned here and there. Don't get me wrong--I'm thankful for each scrap that came, because it helped further my development, but I'd be much more proficient and have more to show for the years I've put in.
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Slipkid:
I wish I knew then what I know now. Not me!!! I might of wound up like Al... 
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Posted twice in error.
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Location: East Tennessee | I'm glad I learned how but also wish I would have taken more lessons and learned to read music. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Began playing at 9, and it wasn't really reasonable to have started any earlier. With everything else going on in my life at that time, I remain grateful that I was able to start then. |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | I was 11 when I started to teach myself and life got in the way. Used to embarress myself on a weekly basis at church type seetings, coffee houses and such. Got back into it off and on just to keep the fingers blistered, and about 3 years ago really got back into it and started taking lessons. Now at 53, I've got gas (among other ailments, but that's a whole nother board)I take lessons, and still don't understand theory.
You bet I'd do it again and this time I would just keep on taking my guitar(s) with me! |
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| Originally posted by Losov:
Learn to play guitar, I mean. Yeah, why not.
I started at about 9 or 10 and never really stopped. Just something I've always done - pretty much every one I knew played something and jamming was a good time.
Not much innarested in the collector thing though; 2 or 3 good guitars is all I need.
The internet is a big change with so much more information being available; not just tabs but things like tunings - growing up in a South Ontario farm town you don't hear much about slack key..lol |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | If I had to do it again...
- I would NOT LISTEN TO WHAT ANYONE ELSE THOUGHT I SHOULD BE PLAYING (read Parents) and I would not have "settled" for guitars and equipment early on that was "sortof" want I wanted to sortof get what I was looking for.
- I would become a professional musician. Any time the thought of that came up it was again shunned as not a career, but just a hobby. |
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Location: Flahdaw | I don't know....when I think of all the hours I spent trying to learn to play a real guitar, when today, in about one hour I could be a "Guitar Hero" on a Wii, the effort hardly seems worth it.
Ahhh, but then the power goes out..... |
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For the Old Guys: Would You Do It Again?
