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Background: Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Stress is a risk factor for hypertension. Non pharmacological treatment that can reduce the stress effectively is music therapy. The purpose of this research was to identify the effect of acoustic guitar music therapy on blood pressure in primary hypertension patients in East Banjarsari Village. Method: This research used quasy-experimental two group pre-post test design, with purposive sampling. The samples were 40 respondents. For 3 days, 20 respondents listened to acoustic guitar twice a day and other groups 1 time a day. Pre-post therapy data were tested by dependent t test, while the difference in a decrease in blood pressure between the two groups was tested by independent t test. Results: There were differences in systolic and diastolic blood pressure before and after intervention in group 1 (p 0,000 and 0,001) and group 2 (p 0,000 and 0,001). There was no difference in a decrease in blood pressure significantly between the two systolic groups (p 0.647), diastolic (p 0.353). Conclusion: Acoustic guitar music therapy performed twice and once a day for 3 days can reduce blood pressure in patiens with primary hypertension