Q. any info is greatley appriciated , thanks CB
Answer
Well, that's not very specific, but I'll try. Actually, the guitar traditionally used in jazz is a semi-acoustic (hollow-body) guitar. As the name suggests, it's a cross between an acoustic and an electric guitar. It still requires amplification. The idea is to provide a different tone from an electric guitar. That said, a guitar is a guitar is a guitar. No matter if it's acoustic, electric or a hollow-body, you can play guitar with it.
As a style, jazz guitar is perhaps a little more difficult than styles like generic rock music. Chords beyond simple triads are be the norm and that means a little extra work. Also, an integral part of jazz is improvisation, so that's something to be prepared for. Playing fast is by no means a requirement like it is in some genres of music. Being able to accompany other musicians is something every guitarist should be able to do.
Well, that's not very specific, but I'll try. Actually, the guitar traditionally used in jazz is a semi-acoustic (hollow-body) guitar. As the name suggests, it's a cross between an acoustic and an electric guitar. It still requires amplification. The idea is to provide a different tone from an electric guitar. That said, a guitar is a guitar is a guitar. No matter if it's acoustic, electric or a hollow-body, you can play guitar with it.
As a style, jazz guitar is perhaps a little more difficult than styles like generic rock music. Chords beyond simple triads are be the norm and that means a little extra work. Also, an integral part of jazz is improvisation, so that's something to be prepared for. Playing fast is by no means a requirement like it is in some genres of music. Being able to accompany other musicians is something every guitarist should be able to do.
classical Acoustic guitar?
sense t
I was trying to buy a guitar, but i still need this imformation to made my final decision.
What is the different between a classical Acoustic guitar and a accoustic guitar?>
please help
Answer
They're both acoustic guitars, but a classical guitar is built to be strung with nylon strings and a "regular" acoustic guitar is built to be strung with steel strings. This gives them very different sounds. A classical guitar is mellower and sweeter sounding and is almost always fingerpicked -- suitable for classical music, some folk (although most folk musicians I know use steel-string guitars), and some acoustic fingerstyle jazz. A steel-string guitar is the acoustic guitar most commonly used in folk, country, bluegrass and rock, it has a brighter, crisper sound and is sometimes played fingerpicked and equally often played with a flatpick.
As I said, the two guitars are constructed a bit differently to accomodate the different strings used. Nylon strings exert much less tension and pull on a guitar's neck and body so the classical guitars can be built of much lighter woods with lighter internal bracing. This helps make the guitar lighter weight and a lot more responsive to the players' touch. OTOH, steel strings exert a LOT more tension and pull on a guitar's neck and body, so guitars built to use steel strings are much more heavily built with heavier and different internal bracing to stand up to the greater string tension.
This means you CANNOT put steel strings on a classical guitar! If you do, the guitar will be very loud and responsive -- for a very short time -- until the neck bows and the top gives way under the tension of the steel strings, and you wind up with a broken guitar. You also can't really put nylon strings on a steel string guitar either. You won't break the instrument by doing so, but the body and neck of a steel string is too heavily built to respond well to the lighter vibrations of nylon strings, so you'll wind up with a very quiet, "dead", unsatisfactory (IMO) sounding guitar.
Whether you get a nylon string guitar or a steel string one will depend on what kind of music you want to play and what kind of sound you want.
They're both acoustic guitars, but a classical guitar is built to be strung with nylon strings and a "regular" acoustic guitar is built to be strung with steel strings. This gives them very different sounds. A classical guitar is mellower and sweeter sounding and is almost always fingerpicked -- suitable for classical music, some folk (although most folk musicians I know use steel-string guitars), and some acoustic fingerstyle jazz. A steel-string guitar is the acoustic guitar most commonly used in folk, country, bluegrass and rock, it has a brighter, crisper sound and is sometimes played fingerpicked and equally often played with a flatpick.
As I said, the two guitars are constructed a bit differently to accomodate the different strings used. Nylon strings exert much less tension and pull on a guitar's neck and body so the classical guitars can be built of much lighter woods with lighter internal bracing. This helps make the guitar lighter weight and a lot more responsive to the players' touch. OTOH, steel strings exert a LOT more tension and pull on a guitar's neck and body, so guitars built to use steel strings are much more heavily built with heavier and different internal bracing to stand up to the greater string tension.
This means you CANNOT put steel strings on a classical guitar! If you do, the guitar will be very loud and responsive -- for a very short time -- until the neck bows and the top gives way under the tension of the steel strings, and you wind up with a broken guitar. You also can't really put nylon strings on a steel string guitar either. You won't break the instrument by doing so, but the body and neck of a steel string is too heavily built to respond well to the lighter vibrations of nylon strings, so you'll wind up with a very quiet, "dead", unsatisfactory (IMO) sounding guitar.
Whether you get a nylon string guitar or a steel string one will depend on what kind of music you want to play and what kind of sound you want.
Powered by Yahoo! Answers
Title Post: What can you tell me about the acoustic jazz guitar?
Rating: 100% based on 99998 ratings. 5 user reviews.
Author: Unknown
Thanks For Coming To My Blog
Rating: 100% based on 99998 ratings. 5 user reviews.
Author: Unknown
Thanks For Coming To My Blog
No comments:
Post a Comment