I started today. Man, I suck. 55, prostate the size of a grapefruit. 50 lbs overweight and my KZbin channel reviewing knives sucks too. Let’s give this a try. Subbed.

I have arthritis in all my joints. I'm 69 years old and have been trying to learn guitar for several years now.

Are you practicing? You should be. What's new? I just found your channel. 😊

I just have campfire aspirations, even if it’s just a few chords that sound decent.

At the end of the day, as long as you pick up the instrument daily, you will get better. Consistency is everything. Don't get over welmed with all the noise. Simply pick the guitar up and start the marty music video and play.

Hello good people-Here's a good tip for ya-See how you're holding the guitar leaning way back? The will omit the strumming accuracy like "Strum the top (high) 4 strings on the D chord" It's not just the left hand...Getting the chords is vital, but strumming them well is what will make them sound good. Right hand is the "touch, the feel". Church AND state people! 🤔

Hope your still making videos cause you really inspired me

great stuff 😅🤣😂

I’m 26, turning 27 this month. I have the goal of starting a band. I’ve been playing for about a month and have made a lot of discoveries about myself. I always wanted to learn when I was younger, and played drums in my church band, but always was afraid of failure. I’ve been progressing fairly quickly, learned A minor pentatonic scale mostly but am struggling with it. But even with the frustration, I have been enjoying learning. I’ve been learning on my sister’s acoustic, and am saving up to get an electric. And I’ve put a lot of research into the instrument and the ins and outs. I want to actually understand the guitar on a deep level, and I’ve learned that I have more dedication than I could imagine.

For those who don’t know, the C Ionian scale is the C Major scale….

If you’re a beginner on any instrument, you have to expect to screw up till you get past the beginner stage..I’m a brass player who’s a beginner on guitar….

I started guitar about 7 months ago myself… after pleat bass for 30+ years so I have the rhythm for it, the problem is, I get more into lead parts and solos than the main riffs. It’s not like I can’t do riffs, just prefer the others, which is something else that you’ll have to deal with… Lead or rhythm. But it’s all good, I’m happy playing anything… keyboards are next!

Funny

After practice and experience with this guitar the player often develops a special appreciation for the guitar. The ear adapts to the sound of the at first unusual sounding chord patterns when played on the baritone. Soon the player grasps the grooviness, in theory. This takes time to appreciate.

Didn't Jeff Healey play guitar like that?

So relatable! I have a guitar for 20 years never played a single chord yet! So using it as an interior! 😂

As an older beginner myself, this video certainly strikes a chord with me (no pun intended ). Back in February 2016 (I was 47 at the time), I took up the electric guitar as an older beginner. Fortunately, I was able to find some excellent teachers on KZbin, where I was able to learn the rhythm part (lead guitar is too hard for me), of many mostly AC/DC songs. The guitar is a hard instrument to learn, but very rewarding and fun to play. Great video, greetings from Australia.

I know this is a comedy video ANDextremely tongue and cheek but I want to point out to have to stop playing guitar due to Arthritis is far from inevitable - there many things ya can do to guitar to make it easier to play Having said all that, if I was going to learn to play guitar, now, at my stage in life, I would probably stick to open tunings👍

I started playing at 15. By 20, my life was too busy and it just drifted away. I was not a good player by any stretch of the imagination. I played mostly punk, and grunge songs, and really only learned the riffs I liked. Couldnt name a note on the fretboard, couldnt transition between open chords. I could play power chords and down pick like a champ basically. 13 months ago I bought a new strat and started just messing around, seeing what I could remember. Then one day, I decided I wanted to really learn to play the guitar, and music theory along with it. I really committed to it and applied myself. Today, after those 13 months, I can improvise over entire backing tracks, understand and navigate the fretboard, play new.things I hear by ear. Your age isnt the primary factor in learning to play. Its a matter of your time and effort. Its is hard. Youll wanna quit, think youll never be able to do it, youll refuse to even look at the guitar some days. Persistence, patience and discipline are key. Certain things will discourage you. Bar chords were rough for me, and it took months to become reliably competent with. Breakthroughs are the drugs of playing guitar. There is no better feeling than conquering a technique or concept you struggled with, and your playing improves radically during these breaktheough periods. If you wanna do, do it. I was absolute garbage, had every excuse to why I couldnt do it, but I pushed through and it has been absolutely worth it. Its good for your mental health, keeping your brain active and learning, and it keeps your fingers and hands strong and agile. Get out there, grab that guitar and get to work.

Regarding the physical stuff, got the callouses back by banging on the old acoustic. Now grabbed myself one of those nice new cheap roasted maple neck electrics off Amazon and resolved to make the guitar as easy on _me_ as possible. That means low string tension, action and any fretting position that's easiest on my hand and wrist. If that means I never fly like Vai across the frets, so be it.

After the arthritis statement i'm thinking about piano

Started playing at 29 and put it down at 35 after getting frustrated with my lack of time and progress. Just picked it up again at 46 and started taking lessons. I’m finally starting to make progress! Thank you for this video.

Dude where have you gone…

Love this

The key for improvement is to stop caring. Sounds counterintuitive, but come think of it, you block your improvement by caring too much. I am 35, but I already see I've learned this lesson too late in life.

It's unclear, do you want the old farts off your lawn, too?

When I was ten and my older brother got to get a guitar and take lessons, I was immediately drawn to the instrument. But, mom thought the girl in the family (me) should play piano instead. I couldn't even reach an octave on the keys with my small hands (and still can't at 56), so that went nowhere. At 16, when I had a job and the money to get things for myself, I still wanted to get a guitar and learn. But, my hands were still small, my fingers short... and I was still a girl (I did not get a good reception in the music stores then... and it's still hit or miss now). At 16, I was discouraged at every turn - told my hands were too small and my fingers too short, told I could learn on a 3/4 or maybe even a 7/8 if I risked injury with some serious stretching and exercises but that I would never find a really quality instrument in that size to upgrade to later. I gave up. Flash forward 40 years, and they now DO make some quality instruments in smaller sizes. So, here I am, just beginning at 56. Yeah, I'm a little bitter, but I'm turning that into a stubborn determination now instead. Now, I've got a Squier Mini-Strat electric and a Luna Safari Vista Stallion acoustic, both 3/4 size, 22.5-inch scale, ready to go, along with the Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar Expanded Edition course. I start this weekend. "When" I've earned it, I'll haul this little Mini-Strat to a luthier and tell 'em to gut it and upgrade all the components to the highest notch possible. If that's not possible, I'll have a guitar built from scratch, 3/4 size, 22.5-inch scale, just for me - a retirement gift to myself. For 40 years, this world told me what I could not do. It's now my turn to talk.

I started playing guitar at 60, now 6 years later, still playing

Dude, just found your channel. Your vids are great! Why’d you stop? I need the time signature video! Haha. Really though, you’ve got a great personality for content creation… especially with us fellow gray(ish) bearded future Hetfields. lol

Tiresome & not funny

Additional silver lining to picking up guitar at "sunset"... just being old, the people you know start expiring. I inherited a mid-quality guitar from a friend who passed away last summer. I used to be a musician & teacher about a hundred years ago on "useless" woodwinds. I always wish I instead picked an instrument which was included on the music I actually listened to, but never gave it a shot. Since I'm old now, I no longer care a whit about other peoples' concerns too (i.e. "get off my lawn") and I'm trying to make something positive of my friend's absence by trying to turn his gesture of guitar gift into a worthy one. It's frustrating and painful, and yet it's also still quite fun. I have a few advantages since I had a pretty strong music background and I thank Dog for that. But probably the main one is an understanding that this is a long, slow road and the frequent frustration and downright disgust at my sound is something I've experienced tons of in my past. Thus I'm more inclined to keep on trudging than I would have otherwise. Anyway, I hope you're still playing & stuff. If so, it would be pretty cool to see you make a current video talking about (& hopefully demonstrating) how far things have come over the past year. I'd like to hear you talk about whatever surprises, both good & bad, and a story or few about struggles and victories you might have experienced in the past year. I would be surprised if you didn't go through a fairly long period where you didn't play at all and maybe came back to it. What thoughts did you have through that ? (just for instance) Good on you. Enjoying this video and I'll check out your other ones.

Very good episode! Your relaxed demeanor is perfect for this dilemma.

Give up teaching your full of hot air

Very funny and helpful! I started back to learning here now in my mid 40s!

Allow yourself to be a beginner. I am a 75 year old retired engineer. I started taking up wood working and after 6-7 years I an make a pretty good piece of nice furniture that people actually want in their home. But it just took some time. To expensive to heat the shop on colder days in winter and wanted another challenge. I brought a Squire Telecaster, s small Fender amp and a distortion pedal as I am into classic rock some stuff I found too difficult when I started 6 weeks ago are beginning to flow pretty smoothly. I can actually play Enter Sandman almost decently and I see improvement every time I practice. It is okay to suck when you first start. You will find yourself sucking less before you know it

could't relate more. Started during covid lockdown aged 42. Went headfirst - 2 hrs minimum up to.6 hrs a day. So you could blame me when i say that since then i've given myself wrist tendonitis twice in fretting hand. I have hurt nearly all tendons in my fretting fingers at least once, and am now just recovering from bilateral tennis elbow. I think I've spent about half the time in last 3 years not playing because of these injuries! now going super slow, just 20 minutes a day. Not giving up and hopefully playing on a stage some day! I think for physically active older people you also have to factor all other contibuting factors to hand fatigue such as your job, other forms of exercise, and take longer breaks

Thanks for such an infomative video. I lost my other half last year in May. Decided to 'lessen" my grief 5 months later and the guitar is now my '2nd wife!'😂 Played a few chords when i was 16 but gave up because no one there to teach me and couldnt play even 1 song! Been playing everyday now learning from youtube and can now sing and play at least 20 of my favourite songs. I am now 68. Have short fingers so have to find ways to 'avoid' the difficult chords and licks. Been thinking of setting up my youtube channel to motivate myself and to let ithers know that we can still playbtue guitar with shortfingers! 😅 Looking forward to your wonderful videos. Am now ansubscriber.

the best advice ive ever heard, which you included here, is that the best guitar is the one that makes you wanna pick it up and play. just stick with it, it gets a lot more fun.

I loved this video.

Just found your video … And, love your humor & delivery! I’m 76 & brand new to guitar. I really appreciate the entertaining way you added a dose of reality to the journey. Many, many thanks!

😂😂😂 I love your sense of humour keep it up by the way I'm 46 and decided to learn guitar keep the humour coming it's great with the information your sharing All the way from the land of Oz ( Australia 🇦🇺) thanks mate new subscriber here 🐎🐴😎👍🇦🇺🇦🇺

Just picked one of these up last week. Love it! I'm actually adding 2 songs to the project I'm recording right now, simply so i can use the baritone.

Hell, I’m 71 and just started. I’ve played drums since I was 8, not great, but I play pretty good. I picked up harmonica at age 45 and play it better than most. But, I always admired guitarists. So, I’m still recovering from knee replacement and wasn’t going anywhere so, one day, I decided to start looking at guitars. I bought a Harley Benton Sunburst Les Paul. I figured if Duane Allman liked Lesters, who am I to argue with his logic? I love this ax, but, I don’t know any better. So, scoot over Derek Trucks, I’m comin through! I love your sense of humor, so, I liked and subscribed. Now, teach me sumptin.

My wife has both Ostio and Rheumatoid arthritis. Yes you can get both.

Thanks for this.

Your friend played the most beautiful pieces I have ever listened to on this baritone guitar.

Thanks sir for your motivation

You may have experienced them by now. But I'm the world record holder of being the longest beginner guitarist. I've been a beginner for 6 years now. I have two firefly guitars. 1 double cut P90's. And a les paul style. They are amazing well built guitars with goto tuners they stay in tune really good. 220.00 dollars shipped anywhere in America will get you one. But if you know nonthing about basic setup you would want to take it to a Luther. Once dialed in hard to beat for the money. Most people compare them to a 6 -8 hundred dollar epiphone. And yeah that's about right.

Re: Knuckle pain - Well, see now, Noob, to be a knuckle ya gotta be able to punch someone with it.

I really enjoy your videos. I hope you do more soon!