So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
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I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.
But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.
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 got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.
I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.
When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.
When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.