Do you play the guitar?

[Joker_]

I play the guitar

never played that game, what's it about?

[Lliam]

Yes. I got an acoustic guitar when I was going on 12 years old (1965?). A wonderful man gave me some lessons and taught me the basic chords at the bottom of the neck.

About a year later, I got my first electric guitar and amp. I played all the time and was in some kid bands playing Beatles, Monkeys and stuff like that.

The first guitar lead I learned was the long version of Light My Fire by the Doors. My technique was wrong but it sounded right. LOL

By high school I was half way decent. I had learned some blues-rock riffs from friends and by listening to people like Clapton and Hendrix. Then I got turned on by new bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep. Of course, I was influenced by a lot of other bands, too.

In high school and through my 20s, I was in garage bands with bass, drums and me on guitar and vocals. I could play Sabbath, Purple, Santana, Hendrix, etc. and later, UFO, Journey, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Heart and lots of other stuff. My fingers knew what to do and I could improvise forever.

I became known locally and my band (s) became popular at parties.

In my early 30s, band members had jobs and families, and the bands petered out. At some point, my guitar wound up in a closet for 20 years.

When I picked it up again in my early 50s, the muscle memory for playing leads was gone. I could learn leads but I couldn't just shred effortlessly.

My wife and I were members of a Unitarian Universalist congregation and I started playing a couple of songs every few weeks. I created arrangements and cobbled together the necessary musicians that might include drums, percussion, piano, bass, sax, more guitars, back up and harmony vocals, or whatever, to play a variety of popular songs, both acoustic and electric.

For about 15 years (2005-2020), I got paid to perform songs at a large, annual, St. Patrick's Day ceilidh. I would cobble together musicians - accordion, mandolin, bass, penny whistle, a second acoustic guitar, harmony vocals, and me on acoustic guitar and lead vocal to play a 1/2 hr set of Irish rebel and pub songs.

From about 2010 through 2019, I had a band with bass, drums, electric keyboard and me on guitar and vocals. We played a variety of music including some Tom Petty, Thin Lizzy, a few odd balls like Ghost Riders and Secret Agent Man, and some older rock and pop classics. No more hard core, arena-rock music. We had about 20 songs (1.5 hrs of music) down pat and were pretty good. We played some gigs in town and at the near by Air Force base.

Then the covid lock downs struck and everything shut down.

[ChiTown33]

Not very well.

[ChiTown33]

I once put out a hat and people paid me to stop playing.

[Sour-rose]

I have a guitar back at home. A blue beauty. But the thing about that and my piano... is my instructors just die. I don't know where they go, and I was a nice kid but they all just fall off the face of the earth. And I never got a lesson from them again. I had one for the piano and one from my high school... both just died. 🫠

[Curiosity2006]

You tell me XP

[FunkyMonkee]

I tried but my fingers are too fat for the fretboard and connect with other strings that I DON'T want to fret. Bass, I can deal with and I'm learning keys but my main gizmo is drums.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/RSLD3omONfw

[Adventurer23]

Yep. Electric and steel string acoustic. I have a classical guitar too, but I never play it. lol Same for my banjo. 😬

[Curiosity2006]

That's amazing! How long did it take you to master Electric & Acoustic?

[Adventurer23]

@Curiosity2006 Been playing since 1993 and I'm still working on that. 😂 I can hold my own, but it's more something I do for fun in my spare time. I just have fun with it. 😊

[Curiosity2006]

Three decades!! XD Keep on rolling! 🤘 ❤️ 🖤 ❤️ 🖤 🤘

[Adventurer23]

@Curiosity2006 Yeah, that's freaky as hell. lol It does NOT feel like 30 years! You always hear older people say the same thing growing up, that "time flies by like crazy". Well, holy crap were they ever right. lol 😨

[Curiosity2006]

💯/💯 True! Years could pass like Minutes! : P

[Skull_Anon]

No, I don't need any "Negativity" in my life 💀

Just kidding, I know to play just enough to impress others

[musicbrain5]

I certainly do! Been playing guitar and bass for 18 years now.

[summiter]

Never played it but I love the sound they make

[serious]

No, I don't and I don't know how to play it either.

[Nikki1989]

I am a trained pianist but started learning guitar a couple of years ago.

[Bricealan]

Not a guitar, but I do play a stringed instrument.

[Reem12345reem]

I want to learn it but Im procrastinating, since 5th grade , i still have the guitar

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Never played the guitar but I should of learned how do so.

[Massageman]

Used to for a year- rhythm guitar, not lead or bass.

[LiamJHayden]

6, 7, 8, and 12 string electric and steel and nylon acoustic/flamenco/classical, pedal steel.

[exitseven]

No but it is on my to do list.

[Sonorous]

Nah I prefer piano tiles

[CoolCatMar1]

I used to play one

[FauxGirlNikki]

yep! since 14 years old

[Simslover92]

No but I wish I did

[Belovedlex]

No but I would

[siseñor]

nopp

[TiaNour]

Once, but I had no idea what I was doing