How did you start learning guitar ?

[nfan12]

I was around 13 or 14 if I remember correctly, it was that time when I started to listen to heavier music thanks to my friends who liked bands like cradle of filth, dimmu borgir etc. But that wasnt really for me, I did start listen to hard rock instead mostly ozzy osbourne. That's when I knew I want to play a guitar.. and voilá my dad bought me nylon string acoustic (that I still have and it's one of the best nylon string acoustics I've ever played  ) and off I went.

I had some lessons for a year.. mostly I learned how to read sheet music and how to play some tunes from Finnish artists that I usually hated from the bottom of my heart. So after that one year I had enough. I played every now n' then for one more year but I didnt take any lessons and music just wasnt fun anymore. So my guitars destiny was to go in the deepest corner of our house and cather some dust.

It took me about 2-3 years to get into playing again.. and I really started to play again when I was around 18years old.
That's when I started to practise 10hours everyday like a fuckign madman and I loved it.. I played ozzy, BLS , Children of Bodom tunes and scales ... And then I turned 20 and my wife came along and our kid and school and now I dont really have time to play. Usually only 1hour/day and that one hour I have is usually during night around 10pm and then I'm already tired as fuck and I cant play for shit. But I will never give up my guitar 

Very nice story!

[wyldechild]

Very nice story!

and touching  please send me money I'm poor

[nfan12]

and touching  please send me money I'm poor

[Rampton Hospital]

and touching  please send me money I'm poor

 

[goold.godson]

I used to do classical guitar, and hated it. And sadly I didn't play again for years. Then for lulz I got out my guitar one day and tried playing something - I taught myself to read tab, and then I was off and running. It just escalated from there really; I played it for a laugh and found I totally loved it when I was allowed just to do what I wanted, and it became a freedom of expression for me. So that's why I carried on

i used to do classical guitar too and i hated it too . my father always wanted me to play guitar but i was more interested in drums so one day he said that he'd buy me a drumkit and pay for some drumminglessons if i started doing the guitar again. i somehow ended up playing bass 3 weeks later it helped that my cousin was starting playing on guitar too and the two of us have always had "my dad is bigger than your dad" conversations. we're always better than the other one at everything and we're ALWAYS right when we argue so that got me having interests in learning to play the guitar. but i've always liked playing my 5 string lakland bass better than any other instrument . i am able to play guitar, drums, bass, piano and the triangle () .

[pawnshop-guitars]

Wow, a multi-instrumentalist. How hard are triangles to learn? I've always been too intimdated to pick one up

[goold.godson]

ok once you already know how to play guitar; how hard is it to learn Smoke on The Water? that's how hard it is to learn to play the triangle

[ThorThunderz]

I would say, i first started playing guitar and bass after going to a metallica concert (atmosphere was amazing).
Years later and here i am, im in my own band called " Asylum ".. Our main influences are pretty much
Guns n Roses, Alice in Chains, Iron Maiden and some newer stuff lik A7X and Buckcherry, We are actually auditioning
for a record contract. But yeah i mainly focused on Vocals then I went to Metallica ( My first huge concert besides Puddle of Mudd ) and watching Robert play bass was pretty crazy so i decided i wanted to play.

[Dr. Jack Daniels]

I first started playing after I saw The video of Nightrain played at the ritz '88.  The way Slash ripped through it made me want to play. 5 years later I got enough money to get a guitar for my 15th birthday. I guess you could say that I play because of Slash 

[ronws]

I'm going to make myself feel really old. Oh well, damn the torpedos and full speed ahead.

I first picked up a guitar in the fall of 1974. My grandparents had a Silvertone classical guitar that only had 3 strings on it. I started, without any lessons, picking out the arpeggio in "Who'll Stop the Rain" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

A few weeks later, we moved to Texas. My mother gave me an old student folk guitar she had. She couldn't afford lessons. All she could afford was a set of strings and Mel Bay's Book of Chords. And I taught myself. I also taught myself to read music, to sing, to play lead. I taught myself how to sing from a book called "How to sing olympically" by Graham Hewitt.

Anyway, here's the song that got me started.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA

I started really working on my voice in 1988, to discover that I was a tenor.

Here's the inspiration that led me to work on my voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-AYAv0IoWI

Yeah, it was an inspiration to me. The perfect song, even if they borrowed the chord progression from "I'd love to change the world."

Though my bass range is sketchy, I am a solid tenor with reaches into castrati.

Above all, I love music and I am glad to have this forum to share my passion and am thankful that you accept my offerings, from time to time. There are times when I wish we could gather for the motherfucker of all jam sessions and I bet we could rock the world.

Thanks to Gott (no pun intended) for this thread, Bumblefoot, Pawnshop, and Justin, and other too numerous to mention.

We're all drawn here by the hard-driving, fresh, soul-fresh and honest feeling of rock and roll. From the youngest here at 14 to 17 years of age, to me, 45 (and scaring the hell out of 46, born 3-19-1964, if you must know).

In the words of KISS, "God gave rock and roll to you, gave rock and roll to you, gave rock and roll to you..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1yvQV7J47o

By the way, in that video, drummer Eric Carr was suffering from advanced stage cancer and still did the shoot. Now, that's rock and roll.

Hooraw ...

[Peaches]

You're a TENOR!? Oh my LAWD I'm so jealous.


I'm stuck with the normal baritone range


but haha you don't get to have a deep voice like I doooooo.

[N.I - GNR]

For me i just bought a guitar out of the blue when i got dropped from my job and had that last big pay check i went straight out and bought myself a strat ! from there a had no clue what to do with it  i didnt want the hassle of going to lessons cause the only tutor in town was i complete idiot and was so old he probibly could have died during a lesson knowing my luck    i learnt via internet for a while mostly on justinguitar.com  great website with loads of great videos to help your learning !  but what helped me most was teaching my tabs theres no limits after that 

[Euterpe]

I got a drumset

 

[Dont Cry Axl]

when i was 9 i got a guitar and the school supplied me with lessons and i was very focused....until i changed school.
Then last year i started playing it again and got into it, now i have lessons from the school i have now lol

[cn'd05]

thanx everyone!! after restringing my baby,i will now go play the shit out of it!!