Elizabeth Wardle Guitar Playing

Elizabeth Wardle states “If we understand writing as one tool among many through which knowledge, identity, and authority are continually negotiated, then we must view learning to write in new ways as a complex and often messy network of tool-mediated human relationships best explored in terms of the social and cultural practices that people bring to their shared uses of tools” (Wardle 290). Writing is a key resource in the fundamentals of guitar playing, and therefore must be implemented to grasp the full understanding as a literate activity. There is a vast array of levels of experience between guitarists. Each guitarist coming from a different background brings their own take to the melting pot of guitar playing. Through the use of an interview and poll, people with different levels of expertise were allowed to express exactly how they used writing to aid their guitar playing. That being said, every guitarist must become accustomed to the general accepted disciplines of guitar playing in order to write about guitar …show more content…
The poll was posted in a social media group called “Manly Jamdays” where experienced musicians at University of Central Florida go to play with one another. The poll had a total of seven respondents whom answered three simple questions. The first two questions were multiple choice. Question one asked, “What is your skill level in guitar playing” to address firstly where they belonged on the skill scale. Notice how no one called themselves an expert as I believe to be an expert in guitar playing is an impossible achievement. Majority of the responders stated that they were advanced guitarists, which was suspected as the poll was placed to musicians that are capable of jamming with one another without practicing