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Football is rubbish.
Guitar has always just been a hobby to me so as long as I can makes noises I kind of like that's enough.
But if I had to pick one, learn drums. I don't have good enough physical co-ordination or natural rhythm/time to be a very good drummer, but I think playing drums would really have sped up my ability to see a piece of music whole instead of over-focussing on the things that naturally attract my interest like voice and melody. I played bass exclusively for a number of years which helped with that, but drums would have been better.
More than anything, play with other musicians. Especially those better or different than you.
My band, Red For Dissent
Instead of spending years fantasing about becoming some kind of guitar hero (and not even really trying to achieve it).
I didn't play with other musicians until I'd been playing quite a while and, for some reason, playing along to records never occurred to me so I'd "learn" a song but the timing would be all over the place.
As a result I don't have particularly natural phrasing when soloing. If I'm improvising everything would start on the 1 and there'd be very little rhythmic variation in my playing. It's only really now that I'm breaking away from such mechanical playing.
Also, I think that if I'd appreciated the importance of timing sooner I could have put in the hours honing my technique working with a metronome when i was younger and had the time to do it. Finding time now to do, for example, picking exercises regularly enough to make any really difference is hard.
The only other thing really is that i wish i hadn't been so lazy about reading standard notation. We had recorder and keyboard lessons at school so I can read music but I've relied on tab so much that I've lost the skill.
But now I've retired I'm working to address that.
I swear, the concept of actually saving to buy things I couldn't afford out of one month's wages never occurred to me for about a decade after my first Saturday job at 17, and the amount I could have saved then as a single person compared to now with a wife, three kids and a mortgage would have been huge.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.