Today, I’m coming up in just over a week to my 70th birthday and still learning.
I started on here about 6 years ago, I had played on and off (more off than on!) for most of my life and never really achieved anything good, I couldn’t play very well at all! (I learned sailing when approaching 50, and standup paddle just before Covid)Īge is but a number, provided you want to do it and are determined you will achieve some of what you want. Below is a rare case I sing along with guitar strumming which I recorded around 8 months ago, the video is about some other tricks I learned these years as an old dog. I am not very interested in singing, so I usually record guitar playing with the original singing, not possible to unload to YT due to copyright issue.
Life has changed completely during this one and half year, but I believe guitar will stay with me forever. Now I am already 1.5 year into the guitar, currently at Grade 5/6 Blues, trying some simple pentatonic solo, and playing acoustic rhythm songs almost daily for fun. These are the two tools I would strongly suggest for every beginner. The Strumming Technique course made me feel very confident when strumming almost any songs. Besides the course itself, The Beginner Song App helped me hugely, in term of practicing, as well as getting over the lock down period - I literally played hundreds of songs in those months. After a few weeks searching around and learning some random stuff, I discovered Justin Guitar and that’s the best decision I have made. When the lock down started, there was a shortage of supply of everything, so I gave away the Yamaha to someone who needed it, but then thought maybe I could learn also. He is now grown up and residing thousands of miles away, not playing guitar anymore (maybe one day he will pick up again I hope).
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My son played guitar when he was in high school, and he had 3 guitars left at home, one Washburn acoustic, one Epiphone electric, and one cheap Yahama electric, plus a big Line6 Spider Jam amp. I started learning guitar last year at 54yo after two months into lock down and got anything to do at home. Based on my experience, you won’t regret it. That time is going to pass regardless so pick it up and get started. If you are browsing this topic because you are thinking of picking up the guitar, or looking for inspiration, don’t let the time it takes to learn a guitar hold you back. When I have a down day, I grab the guitar, start playing and invariably feel better, sometimes quite quickly. Playing and instrument has also been a help for me in dealing with the old black dog of depression. It’s introduced us to many amazing people and experiences. My wife has commented many times how glad she is that I decided to get serious about the guitar. Another one was learning fast chord changes and making sure I could do 60 chord changes from A to D in a minute, then E to D and lastly E to A. I typically now play the A as a barre chord with just my index but that first anchor tip made a big difference. Other important lessons were using the index finger as an anchor to move between A E and D. So I did that 3 times a day, typically while waiting for my cup of tea to steep, good thing I like it strong. That way the 15 minutes of practice wasn’t actually taken up with tuning your guitar, looking for your song notes, etc, but 15 minutes of actual practice.Īt the start I could only play for 5 minutes at a time because my fingers hurt so bad. Other lessons that made a huge difference were the one about timing your practice. Justin guitar is where I learned my first song, Blowin in the wind, the A E D easy version that used to be in his first songbook. Learn to play songs that people will sing along to. When I started 10 years ago I had a clear goal. Every day the guitar gets played and being relatively newly retired it’s getting often hours of attention each day. Now I’m so thrilled I stuck with it and am having a ball with it. I could only remember that you hold your fingers close to the fret, couldn’t remember any chords at all. Just under 10 years ago, at the age of 53, I saw a friend progress quite quickly and decided to pick it up again.
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Life was crazy busy then, single father looking after 4 kids, full time job, teachers obsessed with teaching scales and it all got too hard. I tried to learn 30 years ago and didn’t make it very far.
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