Saturday, July 12, 2008

Acoustic Guitar

By Scott M Green

Have you ever paused to listen for a moment to a musician gently strumming an acoustic guitar or performing a blazing, soul-stirring flamenco number? The sounds of an acoustic guitar invoke mystery and a feeling of romance for many people. Most people never stop to consider how versatile and wide-ranging acoustic guitars are, but virtually all of them can enjoy the beautiful music they make.

Many people, even those with no musical ability, daydream about playing the acoustic guitar. Just seeing one in a shop makes you want to try to play it, even if you don't know how,, just to hear the tones. Maybe you've even wondered about how much it would cost to learn.

You think about how fun it would be to play the guitar at family get-togethers or for your friends at parties. But then, you think about how difficult it would be to learn, or how much lessons might cost. Also, you wouldn't know where to find the time to learn how to play properly.

Acoustic guitars may seem magical, but, of course there isn't really any magic in the guitars themselves. It's their music that enchants you. It's just like when you learned to write during childhood. After a while you mastered it and finally you could take on all sorts of writing assignments. The pencil was the implement 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 implement you use to make 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.

Many who have never played acoustic guitar are drawn to them and may be a little star-struck by them. Sometimes, they may think the guitar is more than what it is. Being able to use it to make music seems magical. It is overwhelming to say that least that you may be able to create music, a powerful universal language.

The acoustic guitar's impressiveness can often lead to an attitude that causes people to approach it too delicately. They forget that guitars were meant to be used and that the power behind the music comes from the power the person gives to it.

If you really want to play guitar and find yourself checking out the acoustic guitars in all the local music stores or if there's a forgotten one sitting in your attic, pick it up and learn how to play it. You won't be sorry you did.

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