Who plays music?

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(05-28-2021, 10:02 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: Never too late.

There definitely are more educational tools out now than when I started.

YouTube is a blessing to learn from and with the amount of players plus accessibility to local teachers should get you moving along.

I never had a teacher worth a damn in my vicinity when I started. It took meeting other players and learning bits and pieces from them to get me going.

I guess that's why I'm more of a humble player.  My philosophy has always been that you can learn from players at all levels.  Their approach might open your eyes to something you never thought of.  That, and no matter how good you are that you're always a student.  

I don't know if i ever shared this story but i bought my first guitar in '84 but didn't get anywhere near serious about learning until '94 when i happened to be in a CVS in Covington and saw an issue of Guitar World magazine. Started getting those every month and i would playe stuff from that every night from 11pm to 3am, since that was right around the time my newborn sons started sleeping through the night. I did that for two straight years. 

I still have 2 or 3 big boxes of those old magazines....i think. I may have thrown at least some of them out last year while doing some 'spring cleaning'. 

I've taken exactly 1 guitar lesson at Maschinot music--where i bought my first guitar--sometime around '90 or so and never went back.