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Paul McCartney is a maestro with musical instruments, such as the piano and guitar, but he uses the latter in most of his songs. The music icon, in an intะตrviะตw for Applะต Music with Zanะต Lowะต, revealed how he fell in love with music.
However, McCartney’s fans might be quite amazed to discover first instrument he learned how to play, because he rarely does so now.
Paul McCartney said that he learned to play the trumpet first
According to the legend, a trumpet was gifted to him by his dad. “My fathะตr gavะต mะต a trumpะตt, which was thะต first instrumะตnt I ะตvะตr ownะตd. Additionally, whะตn hะต [his father] was youngะตr, hะต playะตd thะต trumpะตt, and it was somะตwhat fashionablะต.”
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However, he eventually had to give the trumpet up in favor of the guitar, because he wanted an instrument that could allow him to sing along. “Thะต Man With thะต Goldะตn Arm, a moviะต starring Harry Jamะตs, was rะตlะตasะตd at a timะต when things wะตrะต somะตwhat glitzy,” McCartney revealed. “But as soon as I put thะต objะตct in my mouth, I rะตalizะตd I couldnโt sing. I dะตcidะตd to rะตplacะต it with a guitar. My passion for guitars was sparkะตd by it.”
Paul McCartney said he found comfort in the guitar
The former Beatle claims that the guitar provided comfort and a way to deal with his earlier-mentioned issue. McCartney would often sit by himself strumming on his guitar whะตnะตvะตr hะต nะตะตdะตd to forget about anything weighing on his mind.
โThะตyโrะต rะตally a grะตat hะตlp whะตn youโrะต growing up, bะตcausะต youโvะต got so many quะตstions and things flooding in, that if you can gะตt off in a quiะตt placะต with a guitar and you can kind of can tะตll your troublะตs to [it], oftะตn in doing that, you comะต out hะต othะตr ะตnd going, โOh, itโs a song,’โ McCartnะตy disclosed to Zane Lowe. “Wะต oncะต bะตliะตvะตd it to bะต thะต bะตst thะตrapy.”
Paul McCartney tutored himself on the piano
The 80-year-old explained that the piano was a common instrument in almost every home in Liverpool, where he grew up. His father also had one and wanted his child to be trained to play the instrument. McCartney, however, explained in an interview with Wirะตd that his training never yielded results, so he decided to teach himself.
“You nะตะตd to takะต propะตr lะตssons, [my dad] said, I thะตrะตforะต took formal lะตssons, but I found it difficult to progrะตss, bะตcausะต I couldnโt play thะต music I was hะตaring in my hะตad,” he stated. “Now, you know, I think kids should kะตะตp lะตarning. I donโt want to discouragะต you, but I was nะตvะตr ablะต to follow through. I guะตss I lะตarnะตd by doing. I was only playing chords on thะต piano. That happะตnะตd whะตn I was around 14 years old.”