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If you decide to keep playing the guitar, it is generally good to look into chords too, but melodies are a great thing to play on them as well :) Indeed you can! depending on how serious you intend to play the instrument of course. If you want to keep it fairly simple, you can stick to scales, riffs and melodies.

The guitar is believed to have originated in Spain in the 16th century, based on the guitarra latina, a late medieval instrument with a waisted body and four strings . The first electrically amplified stringed instrument to be marketed commercially was a cast aluminum lap steel guitar nicknamed the "Frying Pan" designed in 1931 by George Beauchamp, the general manager of the National Stringed Instrument Corporation, with Paul Barth, who was vice president.