I started playing guitar at the age of 11. I'm mostly self-taught as I grew in my teen years not until I was 14 did I see a computer connect to the world wide web for the forts time ever. Unlike now we never had any sources of knowledge, then it was only what you can find in books; sometime in the early 90s' I bought a VHS tape of Marty Friedman about exotic scales, that taught me so much that I use what he taught on that tape even today. When you are obsessed with anything, you will eventually become good at it. Luckily for me, it all very easy. I absorbed everything I found on books, taught myself to read guitar tablature and started becoming good that I started leaving the friends I began to play behind, and join other older guys much who were much better. But it was a dull time to be teenagers as there almost no platform for local musicians to showcase their talents. There would be infrequent shows here and there, and unfortunately, if you were a local band covering Hindi...