Who: Myself, Grandpa, and Family Friend
When: I finally learned how to play around my freshmen year of high school.
Where: There's not one specific place where I learned how to play because I briefly learned different places. My first encounter of learning to play the guitar was my grandparent's house, then mine, then at a friends.
Why: I've always been interested in learning how to play so by the time high school rolled around, I was able to motivate myself in learning how to play. There isn't a specific reason that caused me wanting to learn how to play. The guitar has just always interested me. Hearing my grandpa play and watching how happy he gets when playing was a small attribute to me wanting to learn how to play. It was also hearing musicians on the radio, hearing how they all have a different sound to them even if it's just a little different.
How: Playing the guitar has always caught my eye. I've always loved music! Singing was something I had done a lot when I was younger. My grandpa had a guitar in his office along with sheet music and a stereo and I would always play around acting as if I was performing for an audience. He would come in and sit down and sing some songs he had learned back in the Navy. That time spent with my grandpa and listening to him play, seeing him light up with how much fun he was having was what first led me to wanting to learn how to play, not just any instrument, but a guitar. When I was about seven or eight, my parents bough me my first guitar as a Christmas present. I remember how I would try practicing tuning it but never went much further than that. After my step dad got home from deployment, he had taken up a guitar class. When seeing how great his guitar looked, I kept telling myself how I WILL learn how to play. A couple years had past and I was home alone one day and had noticed the guitar while I was cleaning. I figured, why not play around for a little while since no one's home. I thought it was a "cool" instrument to play and could make myself sound different when I play. I started learning how to play, turning the guitar upside down since it was a right handed guitar. I would watch YouTube tutorials on how to tune your guitar. After getting it down, I would turn the guitar around and start playing with my right hand to switch it up some. Once I had got a couple songs down, I kept begging my parents to buy me my own guitar since I had outgrown my other. They finally did after a couple months of begging and I was on my way to learning more songs.
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