when did you start playing bass?

I started to play double bass when I was maybe ten. I played classical music for six years.
When I was twelve i started to play electric bass. Since I only played reading score (I don't really know what you call it. What I mean is looking at a lined paper with dots on) I never realy learnt to improvise. I was totaly stuck in the avista playing...
When I was sixteen I finally started taking lessons and learnd to play without the score.

 

I got my first bass 3 months ago. It was a 14th birthday present, the best birthday present I've ever gotten. So i was 13 when i said "hmm.. looks fun...i'll give it a shot", and 14 when i did.

 

1977, 24 years ago! at the age 0f 14

 

Picked it up when i was in 8th grade because of me then hero claypool, technique and speed was EVERYTHING! Then one day i found out the bloody thing had notes on it and i havent put it down since.

 

When I was 12, I started on drums because our church needed a drummer. A few months later, my best friend, who was a 10 year old bass player quit coming, so I switched to bass.

That was almost 23 years ago.

 

I started on Upright when I was 12, I picked up bass guitar when I was 14. I'm 16 now and wishing I had an upright also...

 

i started in february...and i love it

 

1972? Maybe 1973. I was 15 then. Picked it up again fairly recently after a 19 year break.

allan

 

I started when I was 13. I'm 14 now. It'll have been a year in 2 weeks.

 

1984 at the swinging age of 14. It's now a lifelong condition...

 

I started over the summer in July at 33 yrs of age...

 

Feb 21st 1987, around 4 o'clock.

 

I was born Yesterday, fell off the Turnip truck...
and started playing bass.

 

It'll be one year on December 25th

I had been wanting it for close to 6 months and my parents finally broke down and got me my fender p-bass. I'm still in love.

oh yeah and I'm 17.

 

End of 2000. That's when I picked it up again, after 'hanging it up' in 1987. I started playing as a teen in 1973 (or thereabouts). Slowed down while in my 20's, then picked it up again in 1982 - '87, when we had our 1st child and everything came to a standstill (as far as bass was concerned).

 

5 years ago in January

 

i started in may of my fourth grade year .... im in 9th now .... uh ... almost 5 years now. woo! almost five years!!!

started at age 10