The Guitar Magician

Learn to Play the Guitar

Can you learn to play the guitar? Of course you can! Young, Old, man, woman, girl or boy. You can learn to play the guitar and you
should! If you feel you have no musical talent at all don’t worry about it. Familiarity itself will increase your ability.

One of the best ways I know of to learn the guitar is TO USE IT !. Thats right…touch it, feel it, hold it, strum it, tune it,
play it, clean it, restring it, play catch with it, whatever you can anything but USE it.

Almost every interview or article I have ever read dealing with a guitarists work, eventually leads to the subject of “Tone”. And rightfully so.

Definition
Tone [French. ton; German Ton; Italian-Spanish tono]:(3) the character of the sound achieved in performance on an instrument (The Harvard Dictionary of Music).

In other words it is the way the note sounds, the quality of the sound, the color that it has, the pleasantness or harshness or fullness, the brightness or bite that the note might possess. It is what makes you either like it or hate it.