A short first-person monologue by Lauren Bateman describing her love of the guitar. She explains that learning guitar let her understand how the instrument worked, enabled her to set her poetry to simple chord progressions, and ultimately gave her a voice and means of self-expression.
The thing that I love about the guitar is that I was able to actually write my own music. I understood how the instrument worked, and I just really love the sound of it. It is so beautiful. If you finger pick something, it's just a lovely instrument. But that was the thing that really got me about the guitar, was that I understood how it worked versus when I took my piano lessons and I knew nothing about the piano. The guitar helped me express myself because I used to write a lot of poetry, and then when I put a few chords together and I just put a few simple chords together and you've got a so. And I started putting my poetry to music and the poetry came alive, and it was a really great way for me to express myself. So for me, that's why I love the guitar so much, is because it gave me a voice when I didn't have one.
