I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.
I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.
I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.
My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.