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I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a while, could bust out a couple of songs, but I'm not very good at it.

You go with what you 'get,' and I get playing the guitar. It's a challenge because it's not an easy instrument to play. There are so many interesting sounds you can make out of it and so many different elements. I dig it.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.

I started playing guitar because of instrumental guitar music.

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

So I started to learn guitar right away.

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable.

My folks bought a baby grand piano and that's where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on the stereo.