Is 18 too old to start learning guitar?

This idea is fucking stupid and is an unnecessary impediment to people learning and enjoying music.

You already know required theory and the basics of how to make music, the rest is just the rudiments of technique and the curiosity and the creativity required to play around and figure out how to make fun sounds come out of it.

I started on ukulele when I was 15 and 10 years later my ADHD-addled brain picks up a new instrument what seems like every other week. I've never sat at a piano or keyboard for longer than about 5 minutes in my life but if I play around on one that's laying around people will be like "I didn't know you could play piano?" and I'm like "I can't?". I just know how scales and chords work so I can just fiddle with it till it sounds good. I'm know for a certain and objective fact that I am exceptionally average at music, so I don't doubt in the slightest you will probably be better at guitar than me in a few months if you pick up.

tl;dr Don't be dumb, user. Just fucking do it.

No it's not. Zappa started playing guitar at 18. You can pick up a hobby at any point in your life and have fun with it. And while there is probably a point where you're too old to master something, the notion that you "grow too old" to learn something is pure bullshit, and you're still young enough where it wouldn't matter too much for guitar. If it was a foreign language, yeah you probably won't ever be fluent, but with guitar, you're fine.
>who's been playing piano my entire life
You're more than fine then. You'll probably actually be better than most guitar players who started when they were 11 after 6 months or so, if you actually practice.

if you don't start learning something within the first 30 days of your life, don't even bother. you will never be good. kill yourself out of shame

Guitar is easy as fuck so yeah you can. Just learn how to make a powerchord then just play what sounds cool

i started at 18 thinking i was too old to advance beyond cowboy chord bullshit and now i can pretty much play what's in my head and zip around without even looking at 24. you're fine. it just takes passion and consistency.

Yes it is. All the greats started as kids. Jacob Collier started playing when he was 4. You don't have what it takes to become great but you can probably gig around town. Not being mean just bring real

guitar is the easiest instrument desu you can get good enough to impress women and retards in less than a month

Either you have it or you dont. Good guitar is not about technical skill. Good guitar, or any other instrument for that matter, is all about execution of a creative idea. Just make some interesting noise with it. Fuck skill.

how the hell do you play the riff in Houses of the Holy?

the tabs I can find are just chords

Allan Holdsworth starting playing guitar at 17, so don't worry

Anyone can play guitar

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jacob's a hack and you know it too

Yeah dude. I took lessons when I was eight, but never took guitar seriously until 14. You have plenty of time.

I’m 18 and I Started 5 days ago without any prior musical knowledge, you already have an advantage

yes because all professional musicians making a decent living today are definitely at the level of musical ability of Jacob fucking Collier

gg nice memes bro

>tfw started at 25 a few weeks ago
I have no expectations other than to learn a few songs through brute force so I can justify having a guitar in my room. they're cool as fuck

call me a boomer but any time I heard Led Zeppelin come on, I can't not air guitar to it

keep going bro

Basho didnt start playing until well into college. go for it

It's only too late when you're dead and depending on your religion, that still might not be too late for you. If you don't go for it now, in a couple years you'll be hating yourself for not starting earlier so go for it. Can't turn back time anyway so there's just not point on dwelling on it. Having played piano you're already set up for success more than someone at your age who hasn't.

KEKEK punk all the way

Just do it. Once you get good at piano/guitar and have good rhythm learn any instrument is just matter of time (to develop the strenght and tecnique requiered to perform). You already can keep time and can make a song in Piano? Good, youre set to learn any instrument in just weeks

One time there was a band called The High Strung. At 30, they thought they were too old to start their first band. 10 years of song writing later, and the lead singer is now an author and wrote Bird Box and got paid hella money by Netflix. Maybe its never too late?

No, you just need to spend time on it