"Why 'Air Guitar' Is the New Karaoke"

Summary: This article starts with talking about how a guy called Craig Billmeier won a tournament on who the best air guitar player is. It's all about who can be the best to rock out as playing a air guitar. He won the first part of the tournament and and by that he got a free ticket to Finland to finish of the rest of the tournament. Also thought out the story explains what they need to do to win that competition.

Analysis: The article show how the influence of the guitar has created an imaginary act of playing a guitar and rocking out called the air guitar and how people made a competition out of it.

Reflection Question: How can something some simple be made into a competition. 


Citation: Couch, C. (2006, June 30). Why 'air guitar' is the new karaoke. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR . Retrieved from http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SFL2086-0-4692&artno=0000249740&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Guitar&title=Why 'Air Guitar' Is the New Karaoke&res=N&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=Y&ic=N

"Waukesha Guitar Legend Les Paul Dies at 94"

Summary: This article talks about that Les Paul, an inventor and a guitarist, died at age 92 and summarizes how he had the idea of making a guitar that amplifies from using pickups and an amplifier. Also it mentions some of the people he influenced to play guitar. Not only did he invent the electric guitar but he also invented a way to record music which is used in a studio. He got home objects and created thing like a microphone, by using his moms speaker from her phone and placing it in the end of a broom stick and connecting it to his fathers radio. He noticed that when hearing bands on the radio he couldn't hear the guitarist play with the acoustics guitar and he though it needed an extra boost. And that's when he came up with the electric guitar. As he was playing guitar more in the future he noticed that the guitar didn't need the soundboard with the pickups so he changed the design to a more solid body.

 Analysis: This contributes to my question of "How the guitar influence the world" by showing how a very intelligent inventor of technology was influenced by the guitar. He took an interest in the instrument and noticed some flaws in its design, that the soundboard was a good way to increase the sound but he thought that using the process of amplification it would be better to hear the sound. He was a young boy and he though and did all this things no one else though of. 

Reflex Question: How did such a young boy come up with such an influential instrument?


CItations:Walker, D. (2009, August 13). Waukesha guitar legend les paul dies at 94. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . Retrieved from http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SFL2086-0-4692&artno=0000295118&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Guitar&title=Waukesha Guitar Legend Les Paul Dies at 94&res=N&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=Y&ic=N

"Six String Heroes"

Summary:  This article talks about how a group of volunteer guitar teachers called "Six String Heroes" teach veterans how to play guitar. What they do is called recreational therapy not music therapy, although they say it mirrors what music therapy does. It helps veterans focus on what to play instead of focusing on what they went trough during their time in the war or what has happened to them like losing a leg or causing brain trauma.

Analysis: From this article you can see learning a guitar can influence a "cure" to veterans that had to go through the horrible things that happen in war and go through the agony of having lost a limb or just the sickness of waking up to the remembrance of a tragic event that happened while in the war.

Reflection Question: If the power of learning a guitar can help a veteran get his mind off of what happened during war. Which other type of people with problems can it help?


Citations: Gregorian, C. (2011, July 14). Six string heroes. Retrieved from http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SFL2086-0-4692&artno=0000316089&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=guitar&title=Six String Heroes&res=N&re