Many people are susceptible to the mystery and romance of an acoustic guitar. It can produce spicy and passionate flamenco pieces as well as soft melodic tunes for a wide range of beautiful sounds. While most people don’t think about its range when they think about the acoustic guitar, everyone can appreciate the beautiful music from an acoustic guitar.

Do you ever wish you knew how to play the acoustic guitar? Does walking past one in the store window make you long to walk inside, pick it up, put one hand lovingly around the neck and caress the strings gently with the other, and begin playing a tune? Have you ever thought about how expensive it would be to take lessons? Or how difficult it would be to learn?

You think about how fun it would be to play the guitar at family get-togethers or for your friends at parties. But then, you think about how difficult it would be to learn, or how much lessons might cost. Also, you wouldn’t know where to find the time to learn how to play properly.

Acoustic guitars may seem magical, but, of course there isn’t really any magic in the guitars themselves. It’s their music that enchants you. It’s just like when you learned to write during childhood. After a while you mastered it and finally you could take on all sorts of writing assignments. The pencil was the implement to express the thoughts, but you were the one who put it to use. It’s like that with an acoustic guitar too. It’s the implement you use to make music. And you learn to play an acoustic guitar in much the same way you learned to write all those years ago. First you just play around with it, like a kind of doodling, and eventually the feeling for it in your fingers just takes over. Soon the music is flowing right through your fingers and into the guitar.

Many who have never played acoustic guitar are drawn to them and may be a little star-struck by them. Sometimes, they may think the guitar is more than what it is. Being able to use it to make music seems magical. It is overwhelming to say that least that you may be able to create music, a powerful universal language.

Some people may feel nervous with an acoustic guitar and treat it like fragile glass. So much so, that they forget an acoustic guitar is meant to be played. The music resides within you and is only heard when you actually play the guitar.

The investment of time and energy it takes to learn to play acoustic guitars will not be wasted, so dig out the one in the attic or purchase one at your local music store but either way you won’t be disappointed.