Why do you play guitar?

[Tick]

I guess the most honest answer for me is artistic creativity...I just play for the love of playing my guitar.

[DeanGuitarsRule101]

I'm both for live gigs, and music career... I couldn't decide, so I went for the music career one.

One idea... I want to be a famous guitarist, that plays live gigs, and get into the music career with friends. lol, is that too much to ask for?

[gdwerthm]

Mark,
I just turned 54,I had a fender Mustang and played guitar in a garage band around 1969-70
but never got serious and the playing fizzled out about 2 years later,sold everything.
In my 20's and 30's ,I loved rock,blues and other music that had a guitar in the sound and always said to myself "I am realy going to learn to play the guitar"
there was somthing that happend in my gut and soul when I heard a good blues riff or some rockin band realy laying it down.
But the drive to make a living , and find a wife to start a family was stronger
When I turned 50 I decided the time is now or never to learn to play. free time, money,and understanding wife,great kids, I went out and purchased a LesPaul Custom and a couple of Fender amps.
I play every day, mostly with my Tascam guitar trainer,
Now 54 I am ready to go to some Jam night's at the local bars,hopefully meet the right players to jam and learn the ropes.
That feeling in my gut when I'm playing is one hell of a drug and I want more.
Geo,
Chesterfield Mich

[ngullugwonga]

I just wanna rock!

[free]

I started playing guitar because a friend confinced me playing in a band because we could get free beer at a gig. so I started to learn to play the guitar
later on I found out that music is not only a great way to have fun and get drunk with friends in a band but also to express yourself . Cheers

[BlueThunder]

I went for the career in music. I started playing professionally at age 15 and played my last live gig at age 48 due to medical problems. Now that I am retired I search for new talent and invite them to record in my studio, i believe in [color=yellow]"KEEPING LIVE MUSIC ALIVE".[/color] I am very lucky to play a limited amount of guitar each day, so on my WILL DO list I learn a part of a song, a song, a new cord, play a mode a different way or something, anything that constitutes accomplishment in my trade. I still have so much to learn. In my time left here on earth I share my knowledge and experience and learn all I can.

Thanks Doug, for you commitment and dedication to teaching others all the components it takes to succeed in this business.

BlueThunder

[Doug Marks]

Thank you Blue Thunder. That was an awesome message. I know it inspired me.

[Loopy]

As a kid I remember listening to my brother's Rush and Zeppelin albums and wondering what that wonderful sound was. The sound of distortion and the sustain of an awesome solo made me want to find out what instrument created that noise. My brother bought a Cort flying V and forbid me to even look at it. When he would pull it out and play some of those Rush and Zeppelin tunes I was blown away. I couldn't believe I was hearing the same riffs I had heard on those albums. That's what did it. To me, playing the tunes of my idols and favorite bands was all I wanted to do. That was over 30 years ago, and I've loved the guitat ever since.

[frederick frigault]

i said others-- because i play guitar too understand the reason why some one could ever thing of playing what is been eard at a moment a more raw reason to be one step closer to understanding the mathematical equation of the interval that are played (finding every piece of a puzzle among some other puzzles try to get a giant picture made of tiny puzzle .......)

[R0kk0n]

I don't see an "all of the above" option...

[Wolfhead]

Chicks and free hooch...

[weldfish]

It's a way to get out of the house.

[GuitimeDennis]

I play guitar because I love it.
Ive been doing this for 39 years now..
I can play leads for eternity.... I just love to do it...I like to puzzle my way around.
Through the years Ive found that there is so much that the guitar can do for you..
I just got lucky that I chose the guitar at 5 years old..At that time I just liked to make melodys with strings.
Guitar playing is healthy, always something to learn and improve on..A great life lesson

[rrguitar]

I have thought about, "what if I became injured and could never pick up the gutiar again." It is a very depressing thought. It becomes part of you. Music is a beautiful thing, and it is always challenging and the thrill of the chase to improve never ends. I love it to death! If I live to 90 years old, I will still be playing it, and drolling over Randy Rhoads solos.

[mad gohan]

Nowadays I play because the guitar is the only thing I ever quit because I just didn't get it. When I was younger I bought a guitar, learned G, C, & D chords and my friends and I just started making music from there. Eventually I was able to learn to play the rhythm parts of songs from my favorite bands at the time through trial and error and my ear. I would kind of jumble these parts up, mix and match, add my own lyrics, and these were the songs my band would play. The thing is I had no clue how the guitar really worked, and I got frustrated that I couldn't play leads. Eventually I just quit, because I just couldn't put it all together.
Most of the things I've tried like skateboarding, sketching, turntablism, all came to me pretty easily. I just learned by doing and I could grasp the concepts and perform just by going at it and spending alot of time doing it. The guitar defeated me however.
I eventually got to broken to skate all the time, and I got bored with skratching, and I found myself just spending all my spare time with the PlayStation. I was going to buy the Guitar Hero video game, and I thought to myself, "That damn guitar beat me. Screw this game! I'm gonna get a real guitar and I'm gonna master it!"
I decided this time would be different. This time I would learn how to read music, I would practice the scales, I would take lessons. My ear is good. I can tune my guitar pretty close without a tuner, but I realized that what I was missing the first time around was the simple mechanics. I decided against paying for one on one lessons because I found that there are so many free lessons on the net. I had a feeling about the Metal Method when I saw an ad in a magazine. So I decided to buy it and give it a shot. I'm really glad I did.
The best part of the lessons in my opinion is the part when Mr. Marks explains that no matter how complicated something is it can be tackled if you just divided it into parts and learn each part on its own. With this concept as my creed, and the metal method as my first stepping stone, I have already surpassed the skill level I was at before I quit after just half a year of practice. I find this to be amazing because I was in a number of bands that played live shows over the span of five years.
Thank you Mr. Marks.