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    With the release of The Thrill of it All Sam Smith continues to impress audiences with his otherworldly vocals that gets the toes tapping and the fingers snapping. This album is a prime example of what Sam Smith is all about with its ¨dance and cry songs¨, as he says, and the variety of soul, pop, and R&B music. Sam uses these musical practices in all of his songs in the album, which are mostly about heartbreak and bouncing back, with the occasional sit back and drink song. The variety of the songs

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    life. I noticed myself generally more relaxed, and enjoying life more, because I wasn’t sweating the small stuff and gave everything a chance – people, things, places, whatever else. If I could say anything to my great-uncle now I’d thank him for the guitar and for aiding me in changing for the

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    I have lived in San Antonio, Texas my entire life. Most of my family, from my mother’s side, still lives here, too. Only two of my cousins have ventured outside of Texas. Everyone else either lives in San Antonio or surrounding cities. One of my cousins, who still lives in Texas, is attending Texas State University in San Marcos. He and I are the only two males from my mother’s family who have been to college, so we are each proud of the other, and we know that our family is proud of us.

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    in; she was standing their holding an old black worn out guitar case. I was now old enough to sign up for music classes at school, and was in the process of deciding what instrument I wanted to play. I was hoping to play Sax, Drums, or Electric Guitar. I open up the case disappointed at first to see it was just an old wooden jasmine acoustic guitar, but still stoked that I could now join the band at school. I thanked my Mom for the guitar, and picked it up; placing my fingers on the frets seeing

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    focused on persuading readers to consider purchasing an acoustic guitar from their company and what makes them better or different from other manufacturers, through use of appeals and grabbing the reader's attention even a subtle yet effective manner. The targeted

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    of the song has a texture that is average for the piece, which sets the overall jovial mood for the whole song. This mood is caused by the overlapping of instruments and the rhythm. The main melody is played by an electric guitar, which is then layered with the acoustic guitar. There is also an organ, drums, and some background chatter which hooks the listener to listen to the song and makes them want to join whatever else is going on. As the song goes into the first verse, extra percussion and some

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    Guitar Notes The book “Guitar Notes” by Mary Amato was about a guy named Tripp Broody and a girl name Lyla Marks. They both play a type of guitar. Leaving each other notes in the guitar case got them to grow a great friendship throughout the year, despite them disliking each other at the beginning. This book interested me because of the picture on the front. It was a white acoustic guitar with writing in pencil on it; it also had a cool black background. Right before the school year started Tripp’s

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    how rapidly changing society is, music has shifted through different stages quickly and thus has had the need for innovation. The electric guitar was born out of necessity to keep up with the musical trends of the 1920’s and has since been a powerful influence in driving the music we have today. Contemporary music has been strongly influenced by the Electric Guitar. It is staple instrument that is used in nearly every genre and within every time period of the last century. Arguably, the Fender Stratocaster

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    Best Guitar Strings

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    After breaking one of my guitar strings broke on my Fender Stratocaster, I decided that I needed to do some more research on my next set. Turns out that there are hundreds of different strings varying by everything to the coating to size. So I did what any human would do and googled "Best Guitar Strings". What I concluded is that there is **no** single answer! Guitarist tend to choose their string based on quite a few things: How they want their music to sound, whether that means using distortion

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    Essay on The History of the Guitar

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    The Guitar is a stringed musical instrument with six or twelve strings that is played by either plucking or strumming the strings. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. If an individual were asked to identify a guitar most people would answer the question correctly more so than they would if they were asked about another instrument. When people think about famous guitarists, they more than likely think of famous rock and roll guitarists and do not think about the many other famous

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