Luke Combs on Learning to Play Guitar at 21 and the Moment that Led Him to Music

I just sat on the porch when I wasn't at work , playing , playing , playing because I knew I loved to sing and I was like , well , I'll just learn how to play and then I can sing at like , parties for my buddies or whatever and taught myself all year . And then just kind of became obsessed with like learning how to play . And by the time I was 22 I'm back in school , I'm in Boone hanging out with my buddies .

Luke Combs on Learning to Play Guitar at 21 and the Moment that Led Him to Music

So I taught myself all summer . I just sat on the porch when I wasn't at work , playing , playing , playing because I knew I loved to sing and I was like , well , I'll just learn how to play and then I can sing at like , parties for my buddies or whatever and taught myself all year . And then just kind of became obsessed with like learning how to play .

Luke Combs on Learning to Play Guitar at 21 and the Moment that Led Him to Music

I mean , I , I was in , um , so her , so her husband was actually the band teacher . He taught advanced placement music theory , which was a new class in my senior year . I took that class and got , like , ad because it was like , all these , the kids that were the best at band and the best at chorus where , who was in that ?

Luke Combs on Learning to Play Guitar at 21 and the Moment that Led Him to Music

And by the time I was 22 I'm back in school , I'm in Boone hanging out with my buddies . I'm starting to dabble around with , like , writing my own songs because I was like , well , I could , you know , this would be cool . I like this .

Luke Combs on Learning to Play Guitar at 21 and the Moment that Led Him to Music

And , like , I , like , it's probably some sort of form of , like dyslexia probably to , to the truest extent , like , barely pass math . Have you tried to read music ? Oh , yeah .