I'm 37 years old and got my first guitar at the age of 9. I wanted a guitar because my dad's brothers played in a band and sometimes would sit out on the front porch of my grandmothers house with a 6 string and a bass and play Beatles tunes and classic rock songs. I thought it was awesome. So I asked my parents for a guitar for Christmas. I don't know the name brand of the guitar but I'm sure it was the cheapest one in the Sears catologue at the time. My progress with learning to play the guitar has been very slow. As a teenager I had few friends who played guitar and those who did have instruments didn't know how to play anything. Over time I managed to learn some riffs and started getting interested in rock music while at the same time my mom was trying to get me into the music scene at our church. Even though I was a 6 string guitar player my first experience in playing in front of an audience was at church but I played the bass guitar. I didn't know much about playing bass but I managed to put th