{ESP/ING} La búsqueda de la guitarra/The search for the guitar 🎸☺️

Hi hive friends, how are you? I hope that very good. On this occasion, I have the privilege of sharing a somewhat more personal post, I want to share with you how my experience was, how I managed to learn to play the guitar.

Many of us approach an instrument out of curiosity, or because it simply catches our attention. In my case, I was curious at first, but that curiosity turned into passion.

I vaguely remember a conversation I had with my father, in that conversation I had asked him for a guitar, my father asks me, an electric guitar? I told him no, he just wanted a guitar to practice on.

Thanks to him I can enjoy this fun instrument. When they gave me my guitar I was very happy, but it had only one problem, it was missing strings, it only had four strings and playing a little on those strings another one broke and you can imagine. No one knew where to buy guitar strings so I had the guitar in storage gathering dust for quite some time.

Until one day I decided to listen to a heavy metal band. After listening to the band I was quite amazed by the expressiveness of the musicians and the staging, it should be noted that throughout the song, the guitarists played with a single string of the guitar.

And I thought about playing like them, so using the string I had, I lowered the tuning to an A, and that way I learned a few songs by the band.

In this way I was able to develop a certain speed and resistance in my fingers, since it is clear that I was looking for things that were more difficult to play.

For a long time, I only listened to classical music, then with the discovery of rock and heavy metal, my musical tastes have been expanding more and more, realizing that classical music has a certain relationship with heavier music such as metal. . Although they seem completely opposite musical genres, both have certain similarities in technical and theoretical complexity.

When my father finally bought me the strings, giving me such a precious gift, it is when I get serious about researching chords, scales and new techniques to be able to be a complete guitarist, in my search to find the sound that I wanted for my guitar I find myself with a very interesting genre.

Flamenco which has a wide range of rhythms and techniques that are very fun, making me fall even more in love with the sound of the guitar.

The advice that I can give you if you are learning this instrument is to search, investigate, it is not necessary to have a teacher by our side or be in an academy, not necessarily, it is the interest and for that there are no shortcuts or secrets to progress with this instrument, it's just a lot of practice and a lot of study.

Well, that's what a guitarist is, a seeker, a seeker of his own authentic sound that identifies him and that's where I find myself.

Thanks for reading friends until next time.