Should i even bother trying to learn to play guitar at 22

should i even bother trying to learn to play guitar at 22

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no just spend all day watching anime and thinking about having a gf I guess

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Leonard Cohen didn't learn guitar until his 30's. It's not too late user

>Leonard Cohen didn't learn guitar until his 30's.
Wrong. He learned in his teens and he was in a high school band.

You'll never be world class if you didn't start when you were young but most people who start when they're young also will never be world class anyways, so it doesn't really matter

just give up, loser.

If you really want to, none of the answers to that question should matter

How weirdly comforting user. It's true though, simply starting young isn't going to guarantee anything.

music isn't like professional chess- if you didn't start when you were young it's not too late for you

The correct answer.
My grandfather started learning when he was in his late 60's, there's never a "too late" point. However, the WORST thing you can do it start comparing your ability to someone else's. It never works out well and it just makes the process frustrating.
Enjoy it, and take your time with it

Age is literally irrelevant unless you want to be the best guitar player in the world where every extra year of practice really matters. You can become very competent, better than most guitar players, fairly quickly as an adult if you actually try. Even people that started when they were young mostly practised for like a year than fucked around ever since.

I started around that age, I've been playing for 2 years. Like others have said in the thread, you're at a massive disadvantage in the amount of time you have to make up to even get to the stage that musicians who have been playing from childhood are at. However, when you think about it, most of the musicians who were children were probably just farting about for most of it and gained the skills just through constant exposure.

I know a guy who plays professionally, has played guitar for most of his life and he isn't that good for the amount of time he's been playing. There's areas like fingerpicking where I'm a million times better.

So use the work ethic, discipline and dedication that having an adult brain gives you to make the most out of your sessions, practice a lot and you'll be surprised where you will find yourself.

I'm planning to do gigging in the next year, once COVID is over and things have settled.

In the blink of an eye you will be 30 with no discernable skills and wish you'd at least started playing guitar all those years ago.

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why not?
better to begin at 22 instead of spending the rest of your life considering whether or not to learn guitar but never actually starting.

Why would you want to? Rock is fucking dead and there's no point in wasting time learning an instrument. Just pick up FL-Studio.

Yeah you can literally learn to a reasonable level in like a year or two.

I don't understand what people mean when they say 'make it' and that you need to be playing since a child. Most bands are full of people who just grabbed an instrument and went out and gigged when they were capable of stringing a few songs together. They are hardly Nigel Kennedy style child prodigies.

>Just pick up FL-Studio.
All the best hip hop producers and electronic artists started in their teens as well. The same rules apply. You need to start making music at no older than 16 (and ideally somewhere between 10-13), or else you have no chance.

>there's no point in wasting time learning an instrument
the point is that it's fun. not everyone picks up an instrument to become the next big rock star.

No chance of what? Being some elite level world famous artist.

Well yeah that's like a room full of people on earth. And most of those will have loads of connections and social ties which make the musical skills less of a factor anyway. What a mental way of seeing the world.

no

Anyone who commits themselves to learning will eventually get good enough to play in a band

Just keep in mind that staying motivated and practicing everyday are in fact the real challenges

No, learn the banjer instead, son.

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I think people just always compare themselves to the best, like Hendrix or Wes Montgomery, and if they can never reach the heights of their heroes, then it disheartens them.

>No chance of what? Being some elite level world famous artist.
No, most famous artists are not that good. Remember most artists kind of just get popular by chance, and that's always been the case.

But it is 100% true that if you start making music for the first time past your teen years, you will never get that "lightning strikes moment" where you build a fanbase and start to become a professional musician.

if OP wanted to do it for fun, they why would he even ask this fucking question?

>But it is 100% true that if you start making music for the first time past your teen years, you will never get that "lightning strikes moment" where you build a fanbase and start to become a professional musician.
That's not true at all and even if it was, who cares? Do you make music because you want to make music or because you want to get 'big'?

>Do you make music because you want to make music or because you want to get 'big'?
Most people who make music want it to be heard by someone other than just themselves and their mom.

This.

Imagine thinking rock is the only thing that uses instruments. Anyways, COVID-19 is tearing down all your industries and bringing the world to a halt, so maybe now you'll realize these mistakes.

Listen user, if you haven't learned by now chances are it was never for you to begin with.

Look at what you always do now and work on making that into a character building hobby.

That's easily attainable unless you care about having a large fanbase for some reason