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I'm starting college next month, so it'd be nice to attain a new hobby during stressful nights and dull days.
I want to start learning how to play a guitar, but im not sure what to get!
I'm a beginner, i want an acoustic guitar thats not too costly (below 200$).
The nearest place that sells musical instruments to my residence is guitar center.
Answer
The first thing you have to do is to decide how you plan to play
the guitar. Playing just chords or primarily melodies?
Melody lines are mostly played one note at a time with very
few chord fingering involved in the playing.
Players that only use chords prefer the steel-string acoustic guitar
since it is set up with a slimmer neck than the nylon string guitars
where the neck is approx.2 inches wide and the string a little
more separated. The closer strings are easier for "chord" playing.
The nylon string guitar is also called the "classical" guitar.
This is the preferred instrument for guitarist that play classical
guitar music. Both types of acoustic guitars - nylon or steel strings -
can play any kind of musical style.
Steel(metal)strings are much harder in the fingers than
nylon strings and the majority of steel string players use a
"pick" to play instead of the bare finger/nail tips.
Nylon string players very rarely use a "pick" to play.
The strings are much easier to respond to finger-picking
without any 'soreness" to the fingers.
Steel-string bring out a brighter "metal-like" sound while
the nylon strings bring out a more "mellower" sound.
You should try both types and decide which will be the best for YOU
Don't go by other "players" opinion on this matter.
You will be the one playing the strings of your guitar not them.
In the USA steel-strings acoustic outsell nylon string guitars
by a large number. In Europe and South America nylon strings
guitars sells more.
Be aware that the vast majority of the guitars sold in USA with
a price tag under $900. are manufactured overseas.
They may carry well-known USA brands but they are not
"Made in USA".Similar instruments may carry a different "brand"
but very likely were made by the same machinery overseas.
Example:Takamine-Jasmine-Montana are made for the same
company with different labels-
Jasmine and Montana are identical instruments and carry
different price tags. Difference is Advertisement.
What then to do? Go by sound and overall playability not by
brand name. One last advice: Pick a guitar size like you buy a
pair of shoes. Not One-Size Fits All.
I know of many first time guitar buyers that "give-up" trying to
learn to play because the size of the guitar is either to large
(in scale length) or too big (in overall size in relation to their
physical body and arm size).
Scale-length is the distance between the Nut of the guitar
and the top of the saddle -little white piece inserted into the
bridge of the guitar- Simply this is the length of the part of the
strings that you will pluck when you play. Not the entire length
of the string. The longer the size the more separation
between the frets.
Pleople with a finger spread (form pinky to thumb)
of less than 9 inches should benefit from a short-scale-length.
Many companies describe their instrument is sizes such as 4/4 ,
7/8,3/4, 5/8/ 1/2 but except for the 4/4 that almost always have
a 25.6"scale length the other figures don't mean much until
you try two 3/4 size guitars as an example.
Their scale length will be shorter than "standard "25.6" but one
could be 24.0" and the other 24.5" inches.
Hope this information will be of help in choosing your 1st guitar.
The first thing you have to do is to decide how you plan to play
the guitar. Playing just chords or primarily melodies?
Melody lines are mostly played one note at a time with very
few chord fingering involved in the playing.
Players that only use chords prefer the steel-string acoustic guitar
since it is set up with a slimmer neck than the nylon string guitars
where the neck is approx.2 inches wide and the string a little
more separated. The closer strings are easier for "chord" playing.
The nylon string guitar is also called the "classical" guitar.
This is the preferred instrument for guitarist that play classical
guitar music. Both types of acoustic guitars - nylon or steel strings -
can play any kind of musical style.
Steel(metal)strings are much harder in the fingers than
nylon strings and the majority of steel string players use a
"pick" to play instead of the bare finger/nail tips.
Nylon string players very rarely use a "pick" to play.
The strings are much easier to respond to finger-picking
without any 'soreness" to the fingers.
Steel-string bring out a brighter "metal-like" sound while
the nylon strings bring out a more "mellower" sound.
You should try both types and decide which will be the best for YOU
Don't go by other "players" opinion on this matter.
You will be the one playing the strings of your guitar not them.
In the USA steel-strings acoustic outsell nylon string guitars
by a large number. In Europe and South America nylon strings
guitars sells more.
Be aware that the vast majority of the guitars sold in USA with
a price tag under $900. are manufactured overseas.
They may carry well-known USA brands but they are not
"Made in USA".Similar instruments may carry a different "brand"
but very likely were made by the same machinery overseas.
Example:Takamine-Jasmine-Montana are made for the same
company with different labels-
Jasmine and Montana are identical instruments and carry
different price tags. Difference is Advertisement.
What then to do? Go by sound and overall playability not by
brand name. One last advice: Pick a guitar size like you buy a
pair of shoes. Not One-Size Fits All.
I know of many first time guitar buyers that "give-up" trying to
learn to play because the size of the guitar is either to large
(in scale length) or too big (in overall size in relation to their
physical body and arm size).
Scale-length is the distance between the Nut of the guitar
and the top of the saddle -little white piece inserted into the
bridge of the guitar- Simply this is the length of the part of the
strings that you will pluck when you play. Not the entire length
of the string. The longer the size the more separation
between the frets.
Pleople with a finger spread (form pinky to thumb)
of less than 9 inches should benefit from a short-scale-length.
Many companies describe their instrument is sizes such as 4/4 ,
7/8,3/4, 5/8/ 1/2 but except for the 4/4 that almost always have
a 25.6"scale length the other figures don't mean much until
you try two 3/4 size guitars as an example.
Their scale length will be shorter than "standard "25.6" but one
could be 24.0" and the other 24.5" inches.
Hope this information will be of help in choosing your 1st guitar.
SImple and easy guitar (acoustic) melody for beginner? 10 Pts to best answer?
Jacques
SOme simple tune i cant play that many notes yet. Preferably without chords just the note.
Answer
Try Green Day's Good Riddance as an easy song.
Wild Thing is also very easy to play with a couple of easy chords. (You have to learn chords sooner or later)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1224569391699185492#
Also try "Smoke on the water"
http://www.heartwoodguitar.com/blog/2009/02/03/easy-guitar-songs-for-kids/
Try Green Day's Good Riddance as an easy song.
Wild Thing is also very easy to play with a couple of easy chords. (You have to learn chords sooner or later)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1224569391699185492#
Also try "Smoke on the water"
http://www.heartwoodguitar.com/blog/2009/02/03/easy-guitar-songs-for-kids/
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