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Learning to Play the Guitar

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The first day I went to my guitar class I was so nervous because I didn’t know anything of how to play or use a guitar. Good thing that I wasn’t by myself, my sister was there since she also wanted to learn to play guitar. When we entered the room there was no one, just the instructor. She welcome us with a happy and friendly “hi” and told us that her name was Elizabeth Ortiz. We introduced ourselves and she asked us to tell her a little bit about us and why we wanted to learn to play the guitar. My sister talked first, then when it was my turn I told her that when I was little, the guitar was the instrument that caught my attention. The first time I heard and saw someone playing the guitar was when I was 6 years old and at that moment I fell in love with that instrument. What I loved of the guitar were its melodies and rhythms that were coming out of it. I was also impressed of how fast the man was moving his fingers without any problem as he played the guitar. I was so fascinated that I told myself that in the future I would learn how to play the guitar. After we were done talking she taught us the name of each strings that the guitar has, and in reality the names were letters (E, A, D, G, B, E). It was cool because each one had a different sound that helped melodies sound beautiful. Mrs. Ortiz told us that because we are beginners, the acoustic guitar was the one that we had to use and since it was easier. We didn’t have a guitar that day so she let us borrow some of hers. She taught us (G, C, D7) which were some of the easiest chords, then she showed us how to put our fingers in each chord. It was a little bit hard because the ability of my fingers was slow. When I tried G it was easy, then she told us to change to C and when I made the change two of my fingers were in the wrong chords. I made mistakes many times, but the instructor told me that it was okay because it was my first time and that the more I practice it woul

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