How long have you been playing music?

[stratamania]

How long have you been playing music?

Feel free to elaborate on the instruments you play etc...

I have got the ball rolling with 50 years plus...

 

[ptirman]

Since 1972 so 48 years. God.

 

[stratamania]

Since 1972 so 48 years. God.

Your catching me up. Where does the time go?

 

[Fat Pete]

Tricky decision between the 30 - 40 years and the hack option, but cut myself a little slack.

 

[stratamania]

Tricky decision between the 30 - 40 years and the hack option, but cut myself a little slack.

Cool  :icon_thumright:

 

[kucoyote]

13 years, but I started late in life.  One of those things I realized I always wanted to do.  I decided I better do it or just forget about it.  I surprised my wife.  She had no idea I had the interest.  Now three builds later and four guitars in my “collection”, she knows it is a major interest of mine.

Mike

 

[amigarobbo]

Depends how you define 'music'.

:turtle:

 

[stratamania]

Depends how you define 'music'.

:turtle:

How would you define it?

I use the generally accepted definition.

 

[TBurst Std]

With any regularity, started in 1975.
Instruments included all brass except trombone, all woodwind except flute, all orchestral strings, guitar, bass, baritone, mandolin, banjo.

 

[mayfly]

I used to think "when I've been playing for 20 years, THEN I'll have really paid my dues".  Now I'm over double that 


... and I still have the same problems when I play (poor meter when soloing)    Oh well - I've got a sh*t hot violinist in the band now for that sort of thing  :headbang:

 

[PhilHill]

Let's see, 66 minus 12. No, it's too depressing cause I still can't play that well. So, I build instead.    :turtle:

 

[Logrinn]

Since 73, so about ... er ... 47 years.
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FORTYSEVEN YEARS??? WHAT? CAN'T BE ....
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[PhilHill]

Since 73, so about ... er ... 47 years.
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FORTYSEVEN YEARS??? WHAT? CAN'T BE ....
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I know how you feel, somebody done sneaked a bunch of years in there while we weren't looking...... :dontknow:

 

[rgand]

I started over 50 years ago but didn't do anything for a number of years then started back up. Unlike Pete, though, I am a hack. :laughing11:

 

[PhilHill]

I used to think "when I've been playing for 20 years, THEN I'll have really paid my dues".  Now I'm over double that 


... and I still have the same problems when I play (poor meter when soloing)    Oh well - I've got a sh*t hot violinist in the band now for that sort of thing  :headbang:

Well, there you have the answer. Change your name to Django and change the band's name to "The Quintet of the Hot Club of Moosejaw."

 

[AleForce1]

I'm catching up from when I last left off playing guitar when I was a teenager.  @ 19 I went into the USAF and that took me on many journeys, then when I got out I had run to stand still and create a new careeer... 30 yrs later with my daughter in college I can afford to buy the good stuff and started to purchase guitar equipment (recently a Warmoth finally after looking at their ads in the back of magazines for years).  It's amazing how much I remember and how much I have forgotten over the years, but each moment I get to play my guitar(s) is (quoting Frank Costanza) "Serenity Now! Serenity Now!".

 

[Bob Hoover Ross]

Yep, 50 years plus...

Officially I started on flute in the 4th grade, so that woulda been 1968. But my neighbor when I was 5 years old was a professional jazz drummer and he gave me a pair of drumsticks which I apparently took to, so my grandmother bought me a practice pad the next year, and sometime over the next few years I eventually realized I was a drummer. So if that's the start date it's 1966. Didn't really become a serious [sic] drummer until high school, and I pretty much gave up the instrument after college, but it was a nice run for a while there. Flute only lasted 4 years, other than a few recording sessions I did in the late 1970s, and one free-improv gig I did in the early 1990s where I replaced the headpiece of my flute with the neck and mouthpiece from an alto sax and played "flax".

I started playing guitar when I was 11 in 1972, and started playing bass when I was 13 in 1974. Still playing those.

 

[stratamania]

Thanks all now I am wondering who is Frank Costanza?

 

[kucoyote]

Thanks all now I am wondering who is Frank Costanza?

Character from the sitcom Seinfeld.

 

[stratamania]

Thanks all now I am wondering who is Frank Costanza?

Character from the sitcom Seinfeld.

I have never watched it.