What age did you start guitar?

viz

stratman3142 said:

richardhomer said:

stratman3142 said:

Just before my 14th birthday.

13 then?

14 if you round it to the nearest year

12 if you're superstitious

Perdix

Played a bit at school 14/15ish then nothing up until mid forties when I found my old Westone spectrum and Marshall lead 12 in the loft. Annoyed the hell out of my wife for a couple of months to the extent she bought me some lessons. Now 18months later I'm still annoying her but with a bit more variety.

Bellycaster

14 here too, there's a lot of starters at 14, I wonder if it was puberty, hormones and the thought it would make us girl magnets?

The answer was "No"

Jimbro66

12.

The eight string guitar-ish thing I was given when I was 5 or 6 doesn't really count (even though it probably sowed a seed), so 12 for playing a proper 6-string.

axisus

stratman3142 said:

richardhomer said:

stratman3142 said:

Just before my 14th birthday.

13 then?

14 if you round it to the nearest year

What, you mean like nobody ever does in the history of the world?

Tone71

21 decided to stop admiring and start playing, bought an acoustic and still play acoustic mostly, best decision ever.

cruxiform

13. I badgered my dad for a guitar and got a Kay electric strat type thing for christmas. Mainly learnt Sex Pistols, Who and Jam stuff initally then a friend played me Gary Moore's Corridors Of Power album then I wanted to learn to play like him. 33 years later and I'm still trying...

stratman3142

axisus said:

stratman3142 said:

richardhomer said:

stratman3142 said:

Just before my 14th birthday.

13 then?

14 if you round it to the nearest year

What, you mean like nobody ever does in the history of the world?

Anyway the question was "What age" not "What year". So I would like to submit that my original answer is valid. Although I suspect I'm going to lose this argument

mrkb

10, 15, 20, 32 and 40 - lots of dabbling and breaks as life got in the way! Been 7 continuous years now though and I feel happy calling myself a guitarist now!

Axe_meister

17 in 1987. A new kid joined our class a couple of years older having repeated a number of times.
Well he had a car and got all the girls and played guitar. I was good at maths/physics/chemistry so we formed a pact. He'd get me laid and teach me guitar I would get him to pass his final year. Unfortunately it took me another 4 years to get laid, but I did learn the minor pentatonic and got a lift into school everyday, listening to Hendrix, Cream and deep Purple.

proggy

I started out out as a bass player in my late teens and switched to guitar in my early 30's.

Garthy

richardhomer said:

8.

I should be a lot better than I am by now....

I was 6 when I learned my first three chords, and considering that time I ought to be a bloody wizard, but by 21 I was completely burned out and lost interest for years, and all that knowledge and experience left my head and fingers. As someone else said, it's so much harder the second time around.

breakstuff

Around 14 when I bought a Hondo Les Paul off my mate.Learned how to play a A,E,G and D chord and more importantly a bar chord..Roughly learnt the riff to Anarchy in the UK and I've been smitten ever since.Still not a great player,and I'm under no illusions that I ever will be but I still enjoy what I can do.

Hoof

14 in 1991. me and my sister badgered our parents for guitars for xmas after getting Mudhoney's Superfuzz Bigmuff and Nirvana's Nevermind. Neither of us got very far until my mate's dad showed me some basics (House of the Rising Sun, Apache) and how to tune the thing properly!
We also had one of those buskers "Play all these songs with 3 chords" books which was actually great. Being able to play actual songs and sing along was what stopped me from giving up. I didn't start learning scales until years later when I sort of hit the wall of what I could achieve without knowing any theory. I still don't know that much but I pick it up as I need to.

I had a Hondo Strat, my sis had a Tanglewood LP and we shared a Hohner amp.

TheBlueWolf

13.

I finally took up guitar after convincing my dad to buy me a nylon string acoustic, as a classical teacher had just started at school. I had about 8 lessons before figuring out Johnny B. Goode by ear and finding my niche.

I gave up in my late teens, then bought a Squier Strat in my early 20's.

I didn't really have any sort of plan for learning, just tried to copy songs and learn from others.

AliGorie

"

What age did you start guitar?"

I'm still 'starting' 55 yrs later. I've come to the conclusion - it's a long road - - -

jonnyburgo

19, was shit then and I'm shit now 25 yrs later. I don't care because I love it!

McSwaggerty

Bought a Columbus Bass for £27 when l was 15.....then a Gibson EB something after seeing Free's Andy Fraser, then a Precision when l was about 23...played in various bands until l was about 30 then chucked it and sold all my gear.....bad move, Bought a harmonica ...all l could afford at the time...then sang, played blues harp in a few blues bands until l was 42......
Bought my first guitar then and been at it ever since.
l am pretty shit, but enjoy it immensely.

olafgarten

16, I wanted to start before, but was too lazy to start a new hobby.

Roland

15. I dropped it for about ten years while we went through the marriage and young family years, but have been playing consistently since then. I'm hoping that my fingers, ears, and back have a few years' playing left in them.