Guitar -Task 2
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GRAP1043 Design Studies 3 Industrial design
Mod mania- (Life of the Guitar) Task Two
Su Ek Teck
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Guitar is a most popular musical instrument in the world. It has the ability to appeal a potential of music to responses in people. Guitar comprises of a body with a rigid neck to attach with a six number of strings. Guitars are usually made of various woods and steel strings or nylon. Some of modern guitars are constructed of polycarbonate materials, and other materials of metal. Guitar can produce a sound of rhythm and melody to make people feeling good and relaxed. It will usually make us feel good and affect our emotion and mood. Generally guitars are made up of two types of guitars which are two primary families of electric guitar and Acoustic guitar. Besides acoustic guitar are similar instruments as well as classical guitars because two of the guitars are produced by the vibration of different string which are nylon string and steel string. And, a classical guitar is usually played as a solo instrument using a wide-ranging finger pinking technique. In these two instruments of the sound is produced by the vibration sound of the strings. However, in a guitar, it is accomplished by using a soundboard and a resounding cavity and the guitar’s body is hollow. The soundboard has a larger surface area to display a larger volume of air and producing a beautiful sound through the guitar. In addition, there are many types of guitars which are Yamaha, Ibanez guitars, Alvarez, Washburn, Takemine, Gibson Fender, Jackson, Guild Martin Ovation, Alhambra and Cordoba. Most of the popular guitar is Yamaha because it had has great quality of its instruments making a wide variety of acoustic and electric guitars. Most of the Yamaha guitars are copies of popular American models and most people would buy it because it had such as a nice smooth body and it had a great sound of it with different model.
An additional of the guitar is a great way for people to play around it and people will enjoys the sound of guitar. There are different ways to learn guitar in the school band or people would learn their own way to practice in home. Some people have a great sense of listening for music, rhythm and melody to learn by their own. When people think of the songs in the video or CD, they would know the beat and flow of a song that musician played and they will play the guitar following by the sound of the song and learn with it. This is a skill that anyone can develop further through playing music over time but some people have more of a talent for it. To learn lots of songs on guitar, people would spend a lot of to develop their skill and people will give up to play the guitar because it will make their own finger more painful because when people play with the guitar, they need to push hard through the finger s produce a huge sound of melody.
Similarly, there is a community which is people always learn guitar lesson from Youtube.com. People would always share the comment on it and sharing their own learning in their community. For example, there is beginner lesson for teaching people who don’t know how to play guitar and learn the skill from it. It is great way to help people learn the skill but it is hard to get the feedback from video because people wouldn’t tell you feedback and what skill people’s need and the person up to which level. Unless, people will has a talent for skill to learn the guitar.
Being a successful guitarist or innovative musician is about the playing skills through that are an essential component. It is also about what people want to play and how people intend to influence by the guitarist or song. Guitarists had their own style to play through their own experience. For instance, B.B. king was a world famous guitarist who only played well- chosen notes in song and David Gilmour is world-renowned guitarist, his skills and style was complex faster than other great guitarist. Any guitarists will have different experience can play with the same music but there had different skill.
Furthermore, I was learning an instrument of guitar. I learnt the guitar from by self through the internet and I usually found the song of the note or chords and keep practices every day. Too, I felt very hard to learn because I don’t have any talent with it but I still never give up and spent more time to learn it and complete it in two years ago. I was using my own method to learn guitar and my own style to modify my own situation to change the guitar skill influence by the guitarists.
To summarise, the guitar is a great process for people to modify the method of their own and learn their own method to apply in on guitar. Likewise, being a successful guitarist has to practice more and create your own ability of guitar skill. Though a group of communities you would learn a lot as well. From the point of my view, we can compare the guitar to eating. Eating is our need and activity. We eat when we feel hungry because it makes us feel good. Also, guitar is our need and activity as well because we play when we feel enjoyable because it makes us feel happy and relax able. Guitar is great instruments make me feel happiness and it could help me to modify different way of music or song by my own.
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100314064125AAV9iEZ
