All Greate Guitarists Have Played Sinse They Was 9 Years?, Is that true or not? |
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Jul 23 2008, 03:17 PM
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QUOTE ([email protected] @ Jul 23 2008, 04:01 PM)  Hi eweryone here on GMC! Ihave a quistion. Some people say that if you want to be a greate guitarist you will have to had played the guitar sinse you was about 5 - 10 years old. is that true? Some say that when you are a child you learn it in a way an addult cant do. and therefore you will never be WERY good at the guitar if ya dont play it as child and then keep on playing it. I am 22 years old so i sure hope (and think) its a lie. there has to be some greate guitarists out there who first started paying when they hit somthing like my age and maby even older... right? Also i wantet to say thanks to all the people who answered my last topic "left wrist hurts" here on GMC it realy helped and im back in acktion again  No, it is not true...there are multiple examples of great guitarists who started out playing guitar relatively late...besides if you practise well and effectively you can in one year reach the level of somebody who has been playing for 5 years ineffectively. The temptation to play the stuff you already know over and over again is for many guitarists too big you know  That's why many stagnate strumming power chords and in their playing in general after so many years...that's what I mean by learning ineffectively for instance But keep in mind that you are never too old !!! 
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Jul 23 2008, 04:16 PM
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so did I !and if I was thinking that it was already too late I wouldn't have started off in the first place
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Jul 23 2008, 04:28 PM
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I heard that Steve Vai started when he was 17.
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Jul 23 2008, 05:59 PM
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kirk hammet started when he was 16... it was in rolling stone recently
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Jul 23 2008, 06:01 PM
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QUOTE ([email protected] @ Jul 23 2008, 04:01 PM) Hi eweryone here on GMC! Ihave a quistion. Some people say that if you want to be a greate guitarist you will have to had played the guitar sinse you was about 5 - 10 years old. is that true? Some say that when you are a child you learn it in a way an addult cant do. and therefore you will never be WERY good at the guitar if ya dont play it as child and then keep on playing it. I am 22 years old so i sure hope (and think) its a lie. there has to be some greate guitarists out there who first started paying when they hit somthing like my age and maby even older... right? Also i wantet to say thanks to all the people who answered my last topic "left wrist hurts" here on GMC it realy helped and im back in acktion again Dude, don't worry. it's all about how many HOURS you've played, not years. Well, and what you've been playing the more you improvise and sing, the more you learn. QUOTE (sigma7 @ Jul 23 2008, 06:59 PM) kirk hammet started when he was 16... it was in rolling stone recently He haven't learned much
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Jul 23 2008, 08:04 PM
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It's not really important how early you start, it's how big the desire to advance is, and how much hard work you put into it. Not that I'm saying it doesn't matter at all, but I think it is more important to develop a healthy musical aspirations, and the sooner you develop them, the better. It is well known that child's brain develops sense for pitch and melody quicker, but also a child doesn't have a whole brain developed anyway, so it cannot think on a larger scale about music.
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Jul 23 2008, 10:49 PM
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Zakk Wylde was 16, I believe.
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Jul 23 2008, 11:12 PM
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I couldn't even reach a power chord when I was nine!
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Jul 23 2008, 11:15 PM
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Well its good to start early!!! But than again with proper motivation you can achieve anything...I think Flea started playing bass when he was 18 and he's pretty good..Also I think Mark Knopfler started to play really late ??
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