Acoustic Guitars

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.

Even though it may seem that acoustic guitars are magical, that's not really the case. The music produced is the magic, not the guitar. This is the same as when you were young and learning to use a pencil. After a time you learned to write very well and you soon were able to write essays, book reports and all sorts of things. Your pencil was merely the tool used to create your writing. This is what it's like with an acoustic guitar. The guitar is the tool that makes your music. Learning the guitar evolves in the same way. When you're in the music store you play around with a guitar, just as you scribbled with your pencil. You hear what happens each time you move your hands a certain way. When you start to learn to play an acoustic guitar you begin to feel at ease and soon your fingers begin to move correctly on their own. After a while the guitar becomes an extension of your hands and your thoughts begin to flow through it naturally.

Acoustic guitars have a kind of draw to them, but people who have never played guitar before are often amazed by them. It is often assumed that there is much more to the guitar than there actually is. The ability to produce music is almost mystical to some.

Some people may feel nervous with an acoustic guitar and treat it like fragile glass. So much so, that they forget an acoustic guitar is meant to be played. The music resides within you and is only heard when you actually play the guitar.

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.

About the Author:

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