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Reflective Essay On Guitar

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To begin with the investigating section of my personal project written report, I should state and explain clearly my goal and global context first. Therefore, my topic is to learn how to play guitar and my specific and clear goal is ‘To learn how to play classical and fingerstyle guitar to a level where I can play 3 intermediate songs, like the song “Romance de Amor”, and perform next year at Tri - M night. In order to set this clear and descriptive goal, I had to choose a global context which is Personal and cultural expression. In my personal opinion, playing an instrument is an excellent way to express something that is in one’s mind. I would like to indicate that one’s mind is strongly related to his or her culture and personal experiences or feelings.

I have been playing and learning 2 instruments: piano for 9 years and cello for 6 years. It’s quite obvious for me that music takes a really big part of my life. This is the biggest reason why I wanted to learn another instrument for this project. Also, I’ve always admired people who play guitar and thought …show more content…

In my opinion, playing songs applying the techniques and methods that I learned is extremely important to develop my skills. While I was doing my research on fingerstyle guitar playing, I found this secondary source (www.911tabs.com) created by anonymous people for the purpose of sharing individual’s music sheets of guitar, piano, bass, etc. Every type of music sheet of various musical instruments such as piano, bass, guitar, wind instruments and strings instruments are available there for free. A variety of levels, chords and styles is one of the most powerful advantages of this website. Despite of many benefits, I was able to find some limitations. I couldn’t find any tutorial videos of the song which was very important for me. To find the videos, I had to go to “youtube” but there wasn’t the same version of the

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