The Guitar

             The guitar is an instrument that was first seen to show up in 1800-1900 B.C. Clay pots with pictures of priests wielding instruments with a very strong resemblance to a guitar were found in the ancient near east. The guitar is one of man's oldest and most symbolic instruments. The guitar, in the opinion of many, is a major building block in music. The guitar is a major connector in the lego set that is music.
             When playing guitar the music should be built through feeling not through thinking. When truly playing the guitar it should be felt as an extension of the arm. When constructing a melody on a guitar it should come second nature, just as your heart beats or breathing in and out. The fingers should be a fine tuned machine; the final piece in building the song and finishing the product. Playing the guitar should be a feeling not a thought; it should be an extension of the arm.
             A guitar is an instrument that takes opposites pieces and plasters them together into a certain harmony. A guitar's strings are E, A, D, G, B, and E; from these 6 different notes over 10,000 different noisy combinations can be made, yet they can be put together to make a pure sound. Playing the guitar is an architectural form that takes nothing and makes something. In another light, guitar is taking complete chaos and turning it to organization; much like how different blocks are thrown on the floor, get picked up and placed into a certain location, and a certain figure is erected from the mess. The guitar truly takes chaos and noise and molds it into a melody.
             A guitar is an object that cannot be used negatively (unless you're a pro wrestler). All a guitar does is erect pure sounds, free from prejudices and discriminations. People claim music causes people to do drastic things; I think it's people that cause people to do something drastic. How can an inanimate yet very important object made of metal, wood, and n
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