Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The Benefit Of Learning To Play Acoustic Guitar

By Jay Anderson

Most people accept the mystery and romance of an acoustic guitar. It can produce spicy and passionate flamenco pieces as well as soft laid-back tunes for a wide variety of beautiful sounds. While many people don't think about its wide range when they think about the acoustic guitar, almost everyone can appreciate the beautiful music from an acoustic guitar.

Do you ever wish you could play the acoustic guitar? Does walking past one in the music store window make you think about walking inside, picking it up, and then put one hand lovingly around the neck and caress the strings gently with the other, and begin playing a tune? Have you ever considered how much it would cost to take lessons? Or how difficult it would be to learn?

You can just imagine how your family and friends will be in shock and awe when your bring out your acoustic guitar and show off your new skills. You daydream of having the ability to play like your favorite musician but then shake your head and back on the rack the guitar goes.

Acoustic guitars may seem magical, but naturally there isn't really any magic in the guitars themselves. It's their music that enchants you. It's similar to when you learned to write during your younger years. After a while you mastered it and finally you could take on all sorts of writing tasks. The pencil was the tool used to express the thoughts, but you were the one who put it to use. It's like that with an acoustic guitar too. It's the tool you use to make beautiful music. And you learn to play an acoustic guitar in much the same way you learned to write all those years ago. First you just play around with it, like a kind of doodling, and eventually the feeling for it in your fingers just takes over. Soon the music is flowing right through your fingers and into the guitar.

For one who has never played the acoustic guitar, it may be somewhat intimidating even though it is a very compelling instrument. The music created on a guitar can almost seem larger than life. It seems amazing that anyone could produce such beautiful sounds from such a simple instrument.

Music is such an extreme expression of sound and emotion that it can be overwhelming to think that anyone could produce such beautiful sounds. This outlook can make people nervous with learning to play an acoustic guitar, but you need to remember that the acoustic guitar was built to speak this language.

Whether you frequently check out the acoustic guitars in the music store just to get the feel of them, or if you have got one standing silent in the garage or the attic, take the time to learn to play it. You will always be proud that you've spent time mastering the instrument and will never regret the time spent.

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