Started with violin when I was in first grade. My teacher played piano and I would learn that just by watching her. Dad bought my older sister some cheap Yamaha keyboard thing and I pretty much stole it from her and started learning on my own, playing along to music on the radio. Hated reading music in violin class so I just started figuring out the notes by ear. Came pretty naturally to me. 6th grade, I got into the school mariachi band and picked up the big, fat bass instrument (guitarrón). Liked it enough, it was easy to learn, but around the end of 6th grade the guitar really started to grab my attention. 7th grade, dad bought me an electric guitar and I just started learning stuff on my own from listening to bands like Stryper and Whitecross (lived in a Christian home and non-Christian rock music scared the hell out of me). 9th grade, 1996, my buddy introduces me to Metallica.
Everything changes.
I'd spend hours after school practicing fast picking and trying to play along to songs like Battery, Master of Puppets, and Disposable Heroes. Anyway, that goes on for years. I find OCR in...2005? Decide to try and remix something myself and my first remix actually got posted. After this is when I started to work on my production skills while neglecting my guitar playing. I try to keep things even nowadays but it's tough. Sometimes all I want to do is mix. Sometimes all I want to do is practice guitar. Most of the time I just want to play video games. I've come a long way since my first remix but I've still got so much to learn.