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I'm bored!!!  Nine years ago I was involved in an accident that left me with neuropathy (daily I lose a little more of the nerve connections to legs and arms) and was ...

A life long dream  Hi! My name is Ian and I am 54 years old. The first time I realised I liked classical music was when I was about 7 or 8 years old, I went to see Mary Poppins,...

Never Give Up  I have dabbled in music since a child, but never to any serious level. I started with the organ, rhythm guitar, and then piano all as a child.

Put ...

A wedding story  I started guitar when I was 16. My mom bought me an old Kalamazoo (Gibson). Lucky for I could read music and my fingers were in shape (I played viola)...

An Accidental Classical Guitarist  During the 1960s, while attending university, I came under the influence of the big folk music revival, but got into classical guitar quite by accident....

A Life Long Experience  My father was a guitar teacher (jazz) but thought I did not have a real interest in the instrument. In a way I was the shoemaker's son that went barefoot....

i love guitar...  i love very much the classic guitar...i hope one day i can play classic quitar...thank you for learning....sorry for my english .....

A Dream  I always wanted to play classical guitar from the time I was a child. I lived in Venezuela in the 1950's and my parents didn't realize my desire to play ...

Just Starting!  I inherited a classical guitar that belonged to my uncle. He passed away at a young age, and when I was 18, my grandmother gave it to me as a gift.

It'...

Student for life  I was a child of the 60s and my older teenager brother was, like every kid his age, in a rock and roll band. So there were always guitars around, all electric ...

James Edward McCutcheon  I began experimenting with my older brothers $15.00 Silvertone Parlor guitar it was made by Harmony, painted Black with a faux orange tiger burst.

I ...

Instead of Sitting Around Moping  Like others posting here, I have wanted to play guitar since I was young. Lately, circumstances have found me living alone with no family close by. One ...

My story  About a year ago i finally decided to pick a guitar, And like most teenagers I got an electric guitar.

The sweet riffs and melodies of rock and roll ...

Classical music!  Hello,

I'm really glad I stumbled upon this site. I'm 21 and studying in the capital of my country. I've been playing guitar for two and half years ...

How much and What?  Not a story, more a thought:

All you musicians out there amateur or professional, when you "just play" music what do you play and why?

I realize ...

45 years later...  I've had the desire and passion to learn to play the classical guitar ever since I was a very young man.

I started taking lessons 45 years ago but ...

My Passion  I grew up in a musical family and had music as a subject in school with piano as main instrument.

Thirty years ago my husband bought me a guitar and ...

In my head, out of my hands  When I was in about fourth grade, my aunt died, and left me her acoustic guitar. The only musical experience I had at that point was a year of violin.

The ...

My story... not a happy one  When I was a teenager I wanted to be a drummer. I learned to play drums by listening to Sandy Nelson, Gene Krupa, etc, without ever taking a lesson.

When ...

Mike Hare  Hello, my name is Mike Hare.

I started playing guitar back in 1974, however it was not classical guitar that I started learning.

Back in the seventies,...

retirement wonders  I didn't start guitar until I was 69 years old. I was looking for something that would challenge me in several ways, concentration being one of them.

I ...

My Life With Classical Guitar  Although I am just about 19 now but I still remember the day I had my first experience with the classical guitar. It was the day my examinations for the ...

choir + guitar = classical guitar!  In high school, I decided to pick up my dad's guitar, and I always had a thing for classical music anyway.

Next thing you know, I discover "tabs," crawling ...

curiosity leads to discoveries  At first, I was curious about this instrument called guitar. The way they are being played and there is many frets and strings. I tell myself why not give ...

Harry New  I shifted to classical guitar after a spell on flamenco, which was my first interest. Through my interest in flamenco I discovered the Spanish composers:...

Thanks to Segovia  It was 1958 and my father was given something new to South Africa , a long playing record the first in the country and it was a Segovia Recital. I was ...

How Classical Captured Me  My first experience with classical guitar music came from an interest in the influences of Carlos Cavazo of Quiet Riot.

I was probably 17 or 18 years ...

addinall  Well, it's not much of a story, but at the ripe old age of 50 I decided to buy myself a Les Paul and a BIG Fender amp and to start guitar seriously.

My ...

False Start  In 1992 following a divorce, finding that I had time for a new hobby I bought a classical guitar and started to have lessons.

Realizing very soon ...

Bruce Boome  Way, way back at the dawn of time- well, 1959, I got a guitar for my 14th birthday. It was a "Valencia" arch-top jazz style guitar with an action that ...

Challenging but Wonderful - Classical Gutar and My Life  My story began long ago with my father who encouraged me in music. He was a bit musical himself and could sing with a gorgeous deep bass voice which I ...

Gone from life but here in thought.  My story start's back in the mid 70's when I came back to Scotland after travelling half way round the world as a schoolboy. The first friend I met at ...

Al  My wife had the guitar sitting in a case in a back room for more than 15 years, when I approached her about the guitar I asked why she had never played ...

I didn't find classical guitar...classical guitar found me!  I "inherited" my first guitar from my brother, who really never did much with it. I messed around with it in my early teens, and by my mid to late teens,...

Classical Guitar - I started at age 11  It all began when I had turned my 11th birthday. My Dad had a damaged banjo and it was propped up in the corner of the living room. I never bothered picking ...

Like the Style  Just got my guitar with the mail this week, one I had bid on in an auction on-line (not advertising the well known site) Really thrilled with it, being ...

The long way around...  I showed an ear for music from a young age, and by the time I was ten my parents had tried pointing me at the xylophone and the accordion with nominal ...

Once More with Feeling...  I am trained as a vocalist. As the first instrument known to man I've always felt that the human voice was the most expressive instrument that music has ...

From Metal to Rock to Jazz to Classical back again.  I started out like every other guitarist trying to learn chords, and eventually songs by my favorite guitarists. Then I discovered, the local library where ...

How the flu changed my life  I was taught the piano as a child and studied music for a time before moving on to college. My background in music has always been classical, with a special ...

Ah, another musical skill!  I grew up listening to great music--from the cradle I listened to symphonic music, Pops and the great soloist and keyboardist of the 50's and 60's (Herb ...

Romulo Souza  I always wanted to learn guitar since I was a kid. Finally when I was 16 years old, I had my first guitar and like most teenagers, I wanted to play what ...

Classical Guitar  I first started playing guitar when my father gave me the tablature for "Blackbird" by the Beatles. I used my mother's Yamaha classical guitar from the ...

56 years young woman finally takes time for herself  I received at HiRo guitar from my parents over 40 years ago. I was very interested in the music of Joan Baez and Peter Paul & Mary. A couple lessons ...

One great tune  I was eighteen years old when I bought a tape of classical guitar from a bargain bin at the record store. I had always liked the guitar and learned House ...

An Instrument You Hug  I grew up in New York City, and I come from a musical family. I took clarinet lessons starting at age nine, and I played until I went away to college.

My ...

Trombone to guitar...  Not much of a story, I'm afraid... I am a classically trained trombone player, who suffered a jaw injury making it impossible for me to play any brass ...

Small-town music man  I began guitar on an old Stella when I was 16. I played trombone in school so knew how to read music. I learned by myself that summer with a Nick Manoloff ...

For Her  As a freshman at a private university, I had never thought of trying to play the guitar. I had always wanted to learn an instrument but I couldn't find ...

Pepe Romero had dinner at my house  I am a beginning student of classical guitar but it has been an influence in my life for years. My father was a professor of Spanish and a musician so ...

How i got into classical guitar  I liked spanish music and got a guitar teacher who taught flaminco and classical guitar and loved it. Then my family and I moved to Seattle where in 9th ...

Dr. Michael Tveraas   Arun Chandra, my best friend and school mate in high school, introduced me to classical guitar. We learned what we could listening to Julian Bream & others....

Segovia and Noad  Watching tutorial classes by these two were an exciting intro to the classical guitar years ago. After buying guitar books I was always stopped by the ...

Living The Frustrations of Not Being Blessed By The Muses.   College, 1970, University of Arizona. My roommate, a classical artist with Oboe and Guitar, spoke the language of music, it's theories, it's major and ...

First -- Love making beautiful music  I've heard it said that music is a "celebration of the soul". It always has been for me. My wife and I have been singing together in choral groups and ...

Susan Heffron  I picked up an acoustic guitar in fourth grade and developed a passion to play classical guitar in high school; upon hearing Carlos Montoya in concert ...

How I started practicing guitar  I was 13 when I saw a guitar in a instrument store, a handmade guitar, it cost only 89 dollars here in my country El Salvador.

My uncle who died 4 ...

'Broon's Bane'...My Beginnings.  I was 16 years old when I first started learning to play guitar. I wanted an electric guitar but couldn't afford one at that time in my life so, I had ...

Another student of Mr. Noad  When I was in high school a good number of years ago, my sister dated a guy in a rock band, he was the lead guitar. He and my sister found an old guitar ...

Bob Anderson  I'm back again to thank you for recommending Pumping Nylon . I recently purchased that book along with a sequel entitled, "Easy to Intermediate" , which ...

My dark past!  From age 14 to 40 something? I played drums in a semi pro 'PoP' club & pub band. Well several actually & when I got too old...fed up with humping all that ...

jaybee  I messed around on an acoustic steel string in my youth, learning chord patterns and strumming and even finger picking a couple of rote patterns.

While ...