What do you mean "I taught myself to play"?

I love the Question!

Anyway to answered it,what is meant by "I taught myself to play" usually means you learn how to play any kind of instrument by yourself for free.

Usually it takes time to be able to play before an audience.

It can take a year or maybe if you're good enough in less than 6 months.

Discouraged?

Well, who doesn't get discouraged easily.

Sure you'll feel like giving up after sometimes but there are certain things in live take makes you wanna continue to learned even though the road ahead is kinda rough.

Accepting help to improved oneself is a great way to improved.

I would gladly accept the offer.

So that's about it I guess :)

I taught myself how to play = I didn't have a formal teacher.

When you teach yourself, you grab anything that can help you learn, including jamming with friends, receiving informal instruction, teaching yourself music theory, etc.

Yes, I've been discouraged hundreds of times. Luckily for me, I have an addictive personality, and I can't quite quit the habit of picking the guitar back up and at least jamming out some crunchy power chords.

It took me about a year before I ended up playing with some friends, I think my first "band" was around three years in (lack of musical friends, mostly), I didn't actually start gigging until after I started smoking (then quit smoking!) pot, which meant probably three years after that.

Playing live is a total rush, especially when you're in the groove. Nothing quite like it. Very addictive, good times! Even if its an open mic, it's still a lot of fun.

I never, never turn down help, but I'm at the point where I know that I should've gotten professional help a long time ago, with it I would've progressed a lot further a lot faster. I've had to go back and reteach myself some of the fundamentals, when you teach yourself you don't realize that some of your habits are bad and will need to be unlearned in order to progress.... like playing fast, for instance. If you fret too hard with your fingers, it slows you down. Only fret as firmly as you need to, no more. No one ever told me that, it took me years to realize it. Didn't take much for me to unlearn, I've always had a somewhat light touch, but when I transitioned to electric from acoustic, I had to learn to fret even lighter or the notes would go sharp, I couldn't play as fast, etc.

Saul

Back in 1986 as a junior in high school, a guy moved into town from Wisconson (I lived in California at the time) and he had a Dean flying V. We liked the same kind of music and he showed me how to play Shook Me All Night Long and Back in Black and how to do a power chord. I took it from there. You could say I taught myself, but I have to give dude credit too.

I played in the church band within a year, and within 2 years was in a band that played local a few times and we had a small following. I since have moved to Arkansas (big culture shock) and it took me a while to meet some people. But now I play in an acoustic band and we take real heavy songs and change them to acoustic. We also have a few of our own. I don't know if it'll pan out but it's fun.

you could use a book and just not pay for lessons