What Inspired You To Start Playing Guitar?
Bear Rose
Sep 23 2010, 10:17 PM
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I'm interested to see what was the reason or inspiration of why everyone here started playing guitar. Here's what started me:

In 7th grade I changed schools, and so I had to make friends with a whole new group of people. Well, the ones that I started hanging out with were all guitar players and all they ever talked about was playing guitar. So, I wanted to fit in as well, so the summer after my 7th grade year I started taking lessons. So, really the reason I started playing guitar was because "all my friends were doing it".

After I started getting into it though, I noticed that I absolutely loved the way certain guitar solos sounded. The solo for "No Rain" by Blind Melon, and the guitar parts in "Yellow Ledbetter" by Pearl Jam, and numerous Slash solos really stirred my emotions. Something about the sound of them just spoke to me and I wanted to play like that. I later discovered that the sound that I loved was the sound of a major scale guitar solo. Most rock, blues, and metal players use the minor and minor pentatonic, but the major scale is so beautiful to me and that is easily what I play the best solos in!

So what was it that caused you to decide to start playing guitar?

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Storm Linnebjerg
Sep 11 2013, 10:57 AM
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I used to play a lot of football when I was 13 years old. Had training 5 days a week and a match in the weekends. Unfortunately I injured my knee, completely ruptured my ACL and had to have surgery, but that had to wait a bit, plus it took them 7 months to even figure out what was wrong. In the meantime I had gotten into Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and so on, so I asked my mom if I could get a guitar, and much to my surprise my parents said yes. I played a lot for some years, and then I put it away for some time as I felt a bit too stressed about other things. I'm finally coming back to feeling like practicing a lot here 11 years after I got my first guitar.

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QUOTE (Caelumamittendum @ Sep 11 2013, 09:57 AM) *
I used to play a lot of football when I was 13 years old. Had training 5 days a week and a match in the weekends. Unfortunately I injured my knee, completely ruptured my ACL and had to have surgery, but that had to wait a bit, plus it took them 7 months to even figure out what was wrong. In the meantime I had gotten into Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and so on, so I asked my mom if I could get a guitar, and much to my surprise my parents said yes. I played a lot for some years, and then I put it away for some time as I felt a bit too stressed about other things. I'm finally coming back to feeling like practicing a lot here 11 years after I got my first guitar.


I've been into music since I can remember. I too had put away my guitar playing for many years. Last one was when I was 24 and now I'm almost 40 and have decided that it's something that inspires me and I really enjoy it. It's one of those things, where I can switch off and be in my own little world.

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QUOTE (Kalkilla @ Sep 11 2013, 12:08 PM) *
I've been into music since I can remember. I too had put away my guitar playing for many years. Last one was when I was 24 and now I'm almost 40 and have decided that it's something that inspires me and I really enjoy it. It's one of those things, where I can switch off and be in my own little world.


Definitely. I used to have a pretty good practice regime down of 2 hours a day of various stuff for some 2 years or so when I was around 15. Then I went on to not play for several years and though I've been down the road before I'm back to square one, and it doesn't feel exactly like riding a bicycle. Now making myself a promise to practice for a year and then save up for a new guitar might inspire me to keep going. laugh.gif

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