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Bought my FIRST musical instrument tonight

Kyou Nukui

Kyou Nukui

music is amazing
I am 40 and never played any musical instrument before. I always thought "I'm not good at that and I wouldn't know where to begin anyway". :oops:
Then I watched the live performances by the K-ON! voice actors and they were really playing the instruments of their characters. :eek:
Okay they have a band, presumably the same professional musicians as we're on the soundtrack of the show, but several of the songs were just the voice actors playing all the parts without help at all. They were clearly beginners yet their performance exuded fun! :)

AND Yoko Hikasa, the actor who plays the bassist Mio, is right handed but she learned to play bass left handed to match her character.
I thought "if Ms Hikasa can do this then so can I!" After all, I am left handed. :D
Although I'm sure she had a tutor, lol.
So I bought a lefty bass guitar. It isn't a Fender but something reasonable to begin learning, I think/hope. It's only a Stagg but it's the same colour as Yoko Hikasa's.
I have absolutely no idea what I am doing! :oops:

I know I need a little amplifier, and instructional YouTube videos, and more data allowance than I usually have my phone. If I stop logging in to the forum you'll know I was practicing hard! :cool:

If you think that 40 is not too late to begin learning to play a first instrument then feel free to rate this thread hehe. :D

Anyone else started learning an instrument later in life? :)
 
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It's probably not meant what you meant by "later in life," but I started piano when I was sixteen, which in the classical world is definitely "later in life"! I didn't know what I was doing either! I learned from youtube on a little keyboard we just happened to have. And now I have a degree in it and am doing it as a career! :D Go figure!

LOL I made myself laugh because I really have no clue what "go figure" means, but it popped into my head when I got to the end of that paragraph.
 
Fino said:
It's probably not meant what you meant by "later in life," but I started piano when I was sixteen, which in the classical world is definitely "later in life"! I didn't know what I was doing either! I learned from youtube on a little keyboard we just happened to have. And now I have a degree in it and am doing it as a career! :D Go figure!

LOL I made myself laugh because I really have no clue what "go figure" means, but it popped into my head when I got to the end of that paragraph.
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Whoa that's amazing! :eek: I think it's a bit harder to learn new skills as the brain matures, even any time after childhood... but you are doing what you want and having success, and that's really great! :D
Thank you for your reply it is really encouraging. :)

Oh and you should always say and do what pops into your head! Well, mostly, haha. :)
 
Cool! I love bass guitar, it sounds really cool.
I play the saxophone.
When you get to the level that you are able to do so, you should try playing The Tempest on your bass guitar. I LOVE PLAYING THAT PIECE!!!! I don't know about the bass guitar parts, but the saxophone parts are awesome!!! Good luck.
(Sorry I'm getting a little overexcited here I LOVE musical instruments :D)
 
Horsegirl said:
Cool! I love bass guitar, it sounds really cool.
I play the saxophone.
When you get to the level that you are able to do so, you should try playing The Tempest on your bass guitar. I LOVE PLAYING THAT PIECE!!!! I don't know about the bass guitar parts, but the saxophone parts are awesome!!! Good luck.
(Sorry I'm getting a little overexcited here I LOVE musical instruments :D)
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Thanks for the encouraging words. I love the sound too. Bass is definitely the one for me. I get over excited too (and buy things I don't know how to use) hahaha
The Tempest by whom? The only The Tempest that I know is the one by Pendulum. I don't think you mean that one- no saxophone AFAIK, but it is a simple bassline so I might try that! :)
My favourite basslines to listen to are all way too difficult to imagine how ill get to play them,and my bass guitar heroes are on another planet figuratively or literally, but I have found a few simple songs to try.. once I figure out how to play anything at all. :oops:

Actually I'm still waiting for the guitar to arrive so I can only say that I will try one day!
I don't even know if I will ever be able to play anything or if I'll just pluck it for fun while I listen to the songs I like. Oh well, it's a step up from air guitar, haha. :)
 
Horsegirl said:
Cool! I love bass guitar, it sounds really cool.
I play the saxophone.
When you get to the level that you are able to do so, you should try playing The Tempest on your bass guitar. I LOVE PLAYING THAT PIECE!!!! I don't know about the bass guitar parts, but the saxophone parts are awesome!!! Good luck.
(Sorry I'm getting a little overexcited here I LOVE musical instruments :D)
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This is probably a silly question but it's the only tempest I know... are you referring to a Beethoven sonata!? :eek: That'd be amazing if it could be played on bass! o_O
 
I'm a late bloomer to my photography hobby... I was about 37 when I started doing it seriously, and before that I had rarely picked up a camera (there is a longer story, much longer)... Now I rarely go a weekend without taking photos in my mid-40's

I consider myself a late bloomer when so many people, even my age, describe a photography history going back to when they were young... Sometimes I feel like a rookie when I've only been doing it for just 10 years...
 
Horsegirl said:
The Tempest I'm speaking of is by Robert W. Smith. I don't really know much about it, I just love playing ito_O
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Thanks I will give it a listen. But you already helped me find another The Tempest that is really worth trying soon because it seems very simple. :)

Sherlock77 said:
I'm a late bloomer to my photography hobby... I was about 37 when I started doing it seriously, and before that I had rarely picked up a camera (there is a longer story, much longer)... Now I rarely go a weekend without taking photos in my mid-40's

I consider myself a late bloomer when so many people, even my age, describe a photography history going back to when they were young... Sometimes I feel like a rookie when I've only been doing it for just 10 years...
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That sounds a bit like my bike motor mechanics hobby. I had never studied engines before a few years ago and have now built up my own custom engine and made it run. I believe these things are probably a lot easier than music though because they can be explained more easily in text, and then performed in stages and/or slowly, whereas playing music requires keeping up with the beat! I am expecting it will be difficult but I'm going to give it a go. :)
 
Fino said:
:D Go figure!

LOL I made myself laugh because I really have no clue what "go figure" means, but it popped into my head when I got to the end of that paragraph.
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It is another way of asking the rhetorical question, "Who knew...?"
Kyou Nukui said:
Anyone else started learning an instrument later in life? :)
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Here is another famous guitar student...

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I dabble in the melodica.​
 
I never learned to play a musical instrument at school, mainly because the teacher was a sadistic ***hole who really had it in for me, and then my parents never encouraged me to learn. I had to play a recorder for school, and they couldn't stand the sound of it or my trying to play it, and I also hated the sound of it and the sound of the class trying to play it together. If I had had a different instrument, I might have had more success.

When I was about 30, I decided to buy a guitar and learn to play it because, although I have always really loved music, I felt that I was somehow 'incomplete' because I couldn't play an intrument. But I didn't make much progress with it; I have no natural talent and my coordination in my hands was never that great, and I gave up after about a year.

It's never too late to learn though, and I wish you good luck with it.
 
I've played the keyboard for over 30 years·

Self taught as well, although they did try and teach us at school.
 
Progster said:
I never learned to play a musical instrument at school, mainly because the teacher was a sadistic ***hole who really had it in for me, and then my parents never encouraged me to learn. I had to play a recorder for school, and they couldn't stand the sound of it or my trying to play it, and I also hated the sound of it and the sound of the class trying to play it together. If I had had a different instrument, I might have had more success.

When I was about 30, I decided to buy a guitar and learn to play it because, although I have always really loved music, I felt that I was somehow 'incomplete' because I couldn't play an intrument. But I didn't make much progress with it; I have no natural talent and my coordination in my hands was never that great, and I gave up after about a year.

It's never too late to learn though, and I wish you good luck with it.
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Thanks. :D I hope to learn a bit, but I have no ambition to make music, just to play along to songs at home really.
I too "feel incomplete" as I Iisten to music all the time and love to hear good basslines (Dub Side of The Moon for example) so I think it odd that I have zero musical ability. :oops:

Mr Allen said:
I've played the keyboard for over 30 years·

Self taught as well, although they did try and teach us at school.
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Everyone seems to, or I perceive they have been playing forever which always put me off. Like no one AFAIK ever picked up their first instrument as an adult. I think I would have loved to learn thirty years ago, might even have got good at it; but heck, better late than never. :)
If worst comes to worst it'll make a cool wall ornament! :rolleyes:
 
It's never too late to learn new things :) I live to learn. Good on you for trying something new. I hope you have a lot of fun with it.
 
It’s is never too late to have fun!
What makes you think you have no musical ability??? Maybe you have a little seed of ability just waiting for water and sunshine to grow!
Go figure expression is, to me, like...You do the math.
I’m really excited for you. Bass is pleasant to the ears and you can feel it in your chest if it’s loud enough.
 
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