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Learning to Play the Guitar As I look back on my experience of learning to play the guitar, I can recognize the stages that my guitar playing ability has moved through, though I was unaware of my progression at the time. My guitar playing skill developed with very little conscious effort and as I progressed from one level of playing to another, I was just as surprised as my friends and family were. From the very first time I picked up my mom's guitar, I had a very big desire to play it. But as big as that desire was, I never actually thought I would ever be able to play it. I was in sixth grade when I first pulled my mom's guitar out of the closet. I would sit with my fingers on the strings at random positions, listening to the sounds it made. I didn't even know that there were such things as chords or harmonics, and the concept of tuning a guitar was completely over my head at the time. For a couple of weeks, I had the guitar out and would experiment with it. The curiosity soon died out due to lack of improvement so I put the guitar back into it's case and again it sat untouched for years. It wasn't until I first went to a summer camp that I became re-interested in learning to play it. Shortly after I moved