I have been told about some others but haven't checked them out. Glenn Tipton, Tom Scholz, Jesse Hughes, Tal Farlow, Greg Ginn, and Chris Rea.

I was always envious of the guys who learned to play when we were at school, but never did anything about it. So I’ve started during lockdown. Hoping to join an Open Mike night in one of our local pubs within a few years. Just hit 63 so hoping to do so before my 65th!

37 years old, started last year and am addicted! The first time I was able to sing while strumming was like Christmas, and got me hooked!

26 years old and fully obsessed. It’s coming pretty easy to me so ima keep going as far as I can! 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽

Started playing when I was 19, but not seriuosly because of University, so I quit at 23 and never touched a guitar for 20 years. Then I started seriuosly at 45, now I an 48 and I play 3 hours per day. During pandemic lockdown 6 or 8 hours per day. With exercise my fingers are much more quick and precise now then when I was 20 but playing only 20 minutes per day. Now I am attending a professional course in a real school not online, because it is fundamental that your teachers listen to you. Cheers and rock on.

I began playing 1 year ago when I retired at 65. I was most inspired by another KZfaqr named Lauren Bateman. She said if you improve 1% a week, at the end of a year you will be 52% better than when you started. I believe she is right. If I can improve another 52% in the next year I might just turn out to be a halfway decent guitar player. Keep practicing. You will get better.

Since I'm 19 years old and just found my love for guitars...the first entry really made me happy and gave me hooe because every guitarist I know started at 15 or 16

I'm 26 and I'm practicing like crazy trying to catch up to those who started as a child. Someday I hope to be in a video like this lmao

I’m a teenager just started playing a few months ago and finally realized last week what I wanna do with it. I wanna rock!! Im not going to hope to become a great musician I am going to become a great musician. 🤘

I played a little in school band as a kid. Then decided to buy a guitar to relax when I was 59. It’s fun and I practice about an hour per day.

Thanks for this. I'm so encouraged.

That was very interesting and informative, thanks 👍

The biggest mental block for me has been my age since I’m almost 55, having started guitar 2 years ago. I hit a plateau about 6 months ago, and laid it down. Just started back a week ago. Thanks for the “never too old” reminder! Just what I needed to hear!🤟✌️

I missed this one some how. Excellent video

Wow…. I just discovered your channel and it’s Electric!!! Because I’m 53 years old and always wanted to play Guitar ever since I saw Kiss.. Then Jimi Hendrix’s, The Beatles and Prince just Brought it home for me.. I noodled around as a kid and just got discouraged.. It wasn’t until Prince’s untimely passing that I went out and brought a Guitar and decided to give it another shot… I watched videos purchased programs and still hitting road blocks. Your channel opened up something new for me and I decided to put my all into it… Thank you for the Fantastic content… Inshallah and Peace.

I started learning guitar about a month and a half ago. I've just found your channel and binged a couple of your videos, absolutely love it man keep up the good work 💪

I tried learning the acoustic guitar when I was 22. Gave up shortly after. Tried again when I was 25. Gave up again after a couple of months. I'm trying it again. Next month will be my 26th birthday. I want a Stevie Ray Vaughan Series Stratocaster and a silver and black Stratocaster. Fingers crossed for better luck this time! 🤞

Great video!

I'm 49. Picked up the guitar last year. Still suck at it. Apparently, there is hope :)

Your english is so easy to understand for me. Always I had been looking for a video talking about this cause I feel old at my 26 for learning guita, but I happy to see I am not the only one. Gettings from México City and sorry for my bad english. I am learning yet too 😂🤘🏼

So...you mean there’s hope for us old guys? 😂 Seriously, this is what I needed to hear ... I love that I found guitar .. it’s given me a new focus after a very tough year. Thank you again for your posts. 🤘🎸🙂

One thing I wish I could go back and change is playing instruments. I played guitar at age 10 and drums a bit at 13. Now I’m picking up the guitar again at age 20 and feel like I’m learning to use my hands again

Bought a used stratocaster last week. It's not my first guitar, but my stepdad destroyed my first guitar when I was a kid before I was able to learn much. I just turned 39. Excited to start learning!

I've just started at 19 and feel old as fuck to start but it still feels right

Another wonderful video! I've always wondered why isn't there a video like this out there! Really good job on this and its always a pleasure to see your presentation! Also is it too soon to be requesting you to do a gear collection review? I reall like your seagull and fender strat!

Great video, very encouraging, like your channel! Keep up the good work, thanks mate!

Yes age is just a number, I still run, ride my bike, between 50-100 miles a week, and I'm at about the same stage as you with the guitar, I'm 67 :)

This is awesome I’m 40 and just started learning guitar during the COVID quarantine 9 months ago. I practice every day sometimes for 30 minutes sometimes for hours.

Always an inspiration no matter, what your age. This decade is when I'm really going to go for it

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I started 13 days ago at age 45.

It's very interesting! Also, I will have you take note that all of these legends are from long ago - nowadays it's much EASIER to learn guitar so we got that going for us, but it's also much TOUGHER to get known when you become good since there are so much more talented people. Not sure if this is still possible to make a living out of music while starting at 30+, but become good, or even great? Definitely!

I started at 23. At 15 I tried it right handed but I couldn't press on the low e string properly. I was left handed and parents couldn't find me a lefty as a kid. I finally found a left handed guitar and about 7 months in and I'm 24 now and can play a few songs and it's coming together finally! I was a late bloomer as a person myself too lmao

I'm only 19 i don't know much about music but, feel a special joy when listening or playing music, I would love to become a musician or something in the music industry too add my stuff but also it's a shot in the dark innit. So many people in the world with the same dream. Can work overcome talent? Eventhough with work comes talent.

i had a guitar as a little kid i couldn’t play it at all but guitar hero aerosmith and growing up on classic rock bc of my dad i wanted to be a rockstar and then i got older and i still had the interest as a teenager and now here i am 20 just bought myself a cheap guitar i can beat on to learn so it comes tomorrow and im like a kid on christmas

love you for making this hahaah you the best man

I tried practicing guitar at 18 but I gave up on it because it felt like chore rather than something to strive for. I tried again in my mid 20s but the guitar I had kept braking and going out of tune and I was too broke to take it to a luthier. I finally tried at 30 and I was starting to enjoy practicing but the bridge on my acoustic was about to snap off because I made the strings too tight after that I gave up on trying to learn.

This makes me realize I didn't start late. I started 2,5 years ago and I'm now 18y 6m so just when i turned 16. I feel really late because one of my very good friends started when he was just 13 years old, so a 3 year headstart, but I just have to practice harder to catch up to him!

Johnny Ramone got a Mosrite MK II guitar.. I got a Mosrite MK I guitar which is actually their top of the line guitar, and the pickups are way hotter on mine, like 13k! Sounds way better than the Ramones tone. This thing BLASTS, monster huge tone, like no other guitar I ever played. And it is a single coil vintage 1965 MK I model. Too bad everyone just used it for clean country and surf.. I love those styles, but it has so much more potential to rock out!

I'm 58 & have spent my whole life avoiding learning the guitar. Seriously! I figured, the last thing the world needs is another mediocre guitarist... I've always played music though. Learned trumpet for a while when I was a kid (until an accident wrecked my embouchure), played bass when I was a teenager (until I cut the tip of one of my fingers on my left hand), picked up a harmonica in my 20s & have played one ever since (occasionally for money). Then, when I was about 45, I started learning the clarinet so I could learn to read music, which led to me learning the flute & sax as well, which led to me starting a Diploma of Music (Saxophone) (until I crushed my left thumb in a motorcycle accident) Then, one day a few years ago, I was watching SpongeBob SquarePants (as yer do) when it dawned on me I could play a ukulele & accompany myself on the harp & play Mississippi Jug Band songs... So I bought a ukulele, which led to more ukuleles of different sizes, one of which was a baritone, which meant learning a whole bunch of new names for chords I already knew. Then I found out baritone ukuleles are basically the first 4 strings of a guitar & my world turned upside down! So, I bit the bullet & bought a guitar last Xmas & I've got to say, I wish I had done it decades ago! The way they are laid out constantly amazes me... I'm not saying they're easy to play but they are far more logical than one might expect. So, I'm hooked! I'm making noticeable progress & can now play all the Major & minor chords in all the keys, both open (where possible) & barred AND (thanks to KZfaq) am able to solo (at a basic level) over Major & minor grooves! Next challenge is Travis picking & then alternate tunings & slide... It's never too late! Although, I am a bit worried about losing an arm or something. After all, I've got a history of that sort of thing happening... ;) Thanks for an inspirational video!

I don’t even think 20 is too late. If you spent 5 years practicing, every day for at least 1 hr, you’ll get an awesome level and you’ll be only 25, really young still. I’m 26, started at 18, mediocrely practicing, and still got a very nice level, well, the last two years I really had to commit and start practicing very decently. If I had done that right off the bat I would be better, not doubt. But even when the first 4 years of practicing I was very lazy, and could still get a nice guitar level, I was able to catch up.

My name's wesley but I started this yr at 24. there's no hope for older Wesleys

Idk if that’s old but Iron Maiden first album was in 1980, 5 years after they started the band! And almost everyone was in their mid 20s.

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Everyone here in the comments seem to be pushing 50 years old. And im over here worrying about it at 26 😅 I guess I've got a 25 year head start and that gives me hope

Luke I played guitar as a teenager not very well I've been playing guitar for 16 years now im 74 im on U tube I do jam nights in hotels in Sydney you have a lot to learn you can't rush it

I always looked at it like you can sit on your hands and do nothing or take into affect that you breathing, so just do it age gonna come no matter when you start

Thank you.

Thats inspire me to restore my guitar

❤ great didint know T Móvel Ford. I remember of Joe Baiza ano starter to practice when 27, qnd even thought for little bit known in alt. music he is a jazz guitarrst

I started practicing at 17 and have been practicing every day for like 5 months now. I think if I just keep practicing and have patience I will be able to play Spanish Fly by Van Halen in like 2 years.

Quick question. Would you recommend a in person lessons or a app based teaching method. I

nice to hear some late starters :) it would be real nice to see and hear some female ones too!

53 and started learning for the first time. 😂

"One's enough": You know it, brother.

I bought a guitar when I was 17, but my mother accidentally broke it. I have never touched a guitar since. I am 27 years old. I bought another Yamaha guitar. I like metal music.

Chuck Berry did NOT start playing when he was 29.. He recorded his first singles and albums at age 29.. he started well before that, but still kind of late.

I’ve been practicing at least an hour a day for 13 months. I’m still terrible also 40, have high drive, zero rhythm. Lol seems hopeless. If I can’t strum a song by two years, 800 hours of practice I’m gonna find something else to do

Believe it or not Frank Zappa didn't start playing guitar until he was 18. He started off on drums and could read and write music and understood melody and composition but did start on guitar until age 18. This info came from a Zappa biography I read.

How is Wes Montgomery starting late, at 19 years old?

What was the Chuck Berry autobiography called?

Two of these four artists started at 19 and 24 - which is not old by any reasonable definition - that should tell it’s very hard to find recognisable successful artists who started later in life. You can be the first one but you should know that the odds aren’t good

In all seriousness this is encouraging. One of my recent dreams has been to make it big, of course not really because what I really want is to become an accomplished guitarist, and that's what I mean by big. Not the fame. Sounds discouraging.

Wait a second, how come I wasn't on the list? :D I didn't know that about Chuck Berry, just figured he was a music bad ass his entire life. Adding the other guys to my Tidal list to check out. Interesting reads about the others you listed in your comment. It would be interesting to find some "midlife" old farts like yourself that "made it" :D I'm only 46, so I'm still a spring chicken, though my neck feels 89 years old this week :/

I'm a 64 year old man and it is harder to play when you're older don't have the muscle memory capability you do when you're younger because when I was younger I started playing and it was easy but I didn't pursuit cos I was too busy playing the drums

I started playing when i was 14 and i stopped when i was 24. I pick it back up when i was 35 and stopped at 35. I"m 51 now.

Alright, i'm 45, and going to start tomorrow... coz it's midnight here in my country...

It was Lionel Hampton ( Pictured) with Wes Montgomery not Leo Hampton

I always loved music but kept telling myself my entire life that guitar isn’t for me as I had a failed attempt to learn classical guitar as a very young kid. Last year I spent a few months living among semi-professional musicians and befriended a band. That inspired me to finally start learning at age 36 around 5 months ago. Never before in my life did I get obsessed with something that much. My goal is to be able to play pub gigs with a band within this year. Getting there 💪🏼

The younger you are when you start to play an instrument the better you'll be ar a younger age probably takes about 20 years to get really good,start T 13 you'll be kicking ass at 25 some people are Prodigy some people can do it quicker

I've played for 26 years but i'm only 35 and still can't find a band

Dude the fact that your list held many African American guitar players really blew me away. I just didn't expevtbthat at all and I can't even explain the impact that just haf on me as a black, self taught guitar plater in America. To be historically acknowledged and included and not overlooked like they didnt exist 👏🏾👏🏾💯Everybody on the list were new to me so I'll be looking them up to learn more but that just blew my mind so i gmhad to comment lol. Thank you.

Crap im 52

Joe Walsh of The Eagles picked up the guitar while he was in college. He wanted something to pass the time while doing his laundry.

I'm 15 thinking I'm too old damn

early 20s is late?

All but the old guy they didn't start late lol being im 46 and just now started ..misleading title lol

Armed, robbing gangster....to music man. I'm seeing a pattern. Of fairy tale.

To much talking in the beginning

I picked up a first act guitar at 18 and I just couldn’t get the hang of it and it was painful too. I definitely plan to try again. I’m 32 now.

u just repeating what u saw on that online article, i saw it too, cheap video. exact same list

Great video!