Too old for learning to play guitar?

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I am 16 and I have thought about for 4 months now if I should learn to play guitar because I really want to actually, but I still want to wait until after the new year just to be sure if it's the right thing for me.
But am I too old to begin to learn play the guitar?
I have a friend who has been playing for 3 years now maybe and it would be fun to begin playing with him sometime, even though it's only simple tunes

Never too old!

Go buy a $100.00 fender squire and turn it into one of these...

How to make a GUITBASS<--click

You'll be playing guitar tomorrow!


..... sort of.

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No, 16 is not too old. I wouldn't say there is an upper age limit, though you won't get very good if you start a week before your death.

Heavens, no!

My dad started learning at around 52-53.

I don't know what to say other than: go for it.
And even if it is simple tunes (I can only really play chords), that's something.

Thanks

And like your name is it from somethingaweful or the goonswarm/fleet?

I started when I was 16 and I've become a pretty advanced player since then. It is definitely not too late, go for it!

Oh, good heavens! Nonsense- go for it, while you are excited about it! How old will you be for the rest of your life if you DON't try learning guitar?

I was already in college when I learned guitar, banjo, drums, and bass.

I was turning 40 when I learned fiddle.

Enjoy!

I'm 19 and I just started learning.

So yeah.

Sorry to say buddy but you are too old! By the age of about 15, your hands will have fully developed and produced a hormone called gemmanin, which connects the contracted finger muscles to the veins, and once this happens you won't be able to stretch your fingers out which is required to hold out chords. <source Wikipedia>

Serious don't get a squier. Get an Ibanez Gio....hands DOWN best guitar beginner or otherwise for under 150. No Joke, I have played for 12 years, and I play a Gio right now because my family has my other guitars or they need to be re-sautered. The action is very smooth, and they are very smooth. It compares to my 300$ schechter

Squier strats are very rough and not easy to learn on. Telecasters might be easier though

Yeah... don't get a squire to really learn guitar. DO get a squire to convert into a guitbass (this would ruin a good guitar).

The guitbass is just something to play when you get frustrated practicing proper guitar. They are a lot of fun though.

I started at 22. 16 is definitely not to old. The major things you need are motivation, patience.... and obviously a guitar.

I have been taking lessons for about 4 months now and I am 53. My teacher is an incredible guitarist in a very good band and writes his own music. He just started 3 years ago. He is 23.

I got my high school diploma when I was 30. I got my 3rd bachelor's degree when I was 44, my first when I was 37. I was on the street and homeless when I was 13. But now I have a great career, a home and two grown children who are nurses and one in college.

You are the perfect age to begin. You will never be too old for anything unless you limit yourself.

Don't let fear define you. Conquer your fear and define yourself.

You're never too old, I learned when I was 14.

Too old to begin? You're too old to begin only when you're dead and buried, Reindeer.
So stop fretting, find a six-string, and get busy playing.

But I have stretched fingers since I was 14

No.

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