any adult learners here?

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i've been messing around with dd's new half size acoustic guitar since the weekend and my callouses are coming along beautifully (incidentally, it always seems to work really well to motivate her to practise things if i steal demonstrate said item, worked a treat with her scooter too ) i started learning a few years back but haven't played at all for a while, and was pleasantly surprised how much of it came back. i've printed off an enormous chord chart and i'm slowly happily strumming back and forth between C, A, G, E, D although i'm still struggling with F (i seem to remember i got as far as bar chords last time before i gave up!).

just wondered if anyone else is beginning an instrument? i've never really played an instrument before, although i used to be able to read music well enough to play recorder. one of the things i love about learning guitar is tab - no need to read music!

dh bought be drum lessons for my birthday last year. i have been going to lessons fortnightly for a year now and i love it.

i used to play the violin at school, and i want to go back to it at some stage.

i have a full size kit and love it

dh bought be drum lessons for my birthday last year. i have been going to lessons fortnightly for a year now and i love it.

i used to play the violin at school, and i want to go back to it at some stage.

i have a full size kit and love it

lol @drum lessons - were they out of the blue or had you expressed an interest? do you have a very big house?

sounds fab, i bet it's great for working out frustrations! do you have any plans/desire to play with other musicians, form a band or anything? does dh play anything?

dh - no!

small house - but i am considerate to neighbours. i just do 10 min sets a couple of times a week.

would eventually be nice to be an old rocker and get band experience, my teacher asks me every week "in a band yet?" but im seriously not that good. the dificulty is that the kit is in my sons room and i have to respect that. the trouble is i dont trust him enough to respect my stuff - so when he leaves home (soon couple of years max) i plan to get a music system together - great speakers - loud - something more than you can plug into your puter ( tried that) where i can play along to a series of tracks out loud without having to cart a laptop up there or wear dodgy mp3 player.

there ae lots of musicians on here - a few pianists, and i think a couple in the brass section - and a couple of woodwind.

very talented these mumsnetters

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do you want to be in a band?

well i'd love to be good enough to play in a band but that's a long way off.

i'm curious about what drives people to begin an instrument as an adult - was it something you'd always wanted to do but never had the chance? just a whim? mid life crisis?

i think it was mostly the latter for me - i've always loved listening to music and i distinctly remember the disappointment of turning 28 cos it meant i'd never be a rock star (janis, jimi, jim all dead by then!) don't remember the exact trigger, but i bought an electric guitar on ebay and started learning from online lessons. acoustic's easier just to pick up and put down without all that plugging in though