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First, buy a decent guitar. While it's true you can learn the notes and chords on any guitar, it will be far easier and more enjoyable on a guitar that doesn't buzz and doesn't require 500 pounds of force to push the strings down. The Yamaha FG700S, at about $200, is one I recommend to many of my students. If that's too steep for you, Takamine Jasmine and Epiphone DR-100 guitars are around $100 and are fairly good guitars. Avoid cheap discount store instruments like First Act or Gibson Maestro.
Next, find a good teacher if you can afford lessons. If not, at least buy a good lesson series books like Mel Bay or Hal Leonard. I teach lessons and use the Mel Bay books.
The thing with learning guitar well is to not just jump into reading tabs and chord charts on the internet and assume that because you can put your fingers in the right place and strum that you have mastered the guitar. I start my students by teaching them the strings and how to tune their guitar first thing. Then we learn to read music and identify and play the notes on all 6 strings. We then learn the major and minor scales and how chords are built off of those scales. This leads us into learning a variety of chords. All the exercises and songs we learn reinforce those concepts. If you take a structure, logical approach it all makes sense and flows together. If you just jump into memorizing a bunch of chords you'll be constrained by your ability to memorize things. I find it much more enjoyable being equipped to make music than to simply play it.
First, buy a decent guitar. While it's true you can learn the notes and chords on any guitar, it will be far easier and more enjoyable on a guitar that doesn't buzz and doesn't require 500 pounds of force to push the strings down. The Yamaha FG700S, at about $200, is one I recommend to many of my students. If that's too steep for you, Takamine Jasmine and Epiphone DR-100 guitars are around $100 and are fairly good guitars. Avoid cheap discount store instruments like First Act or Gibson Maestro.
Next, find a good teacher if you can afford lessons. If not, at least buy a good lesson series books like Mel Bay or Hal Leonard. I teach lessons and use the Mel Bay books.
The thing with learning guitar well is to not just jump into reading tabs and chord charts on the internet and assume that because you can put your fingers in the right place and strum that you have mastered the guitar. I start my students by teaching them the strings and how to tune their guitar first thing. Then we learn to read music and identify and play the notes on all 6 strings. We then learn the major and minor scales and how chords are built off of those scales. This leads us into learning a variety of chords. All the exercises and songs we learn reinforce those concepts. If you take a structure, logical approach it all makes sense and flows together. If you just jump into memorizing a bunch of chords you'll be constrained by your ability to memorize things. I find it much more enjoyable being equipped to make music than to simply play it.
Good acoustic Guitar for beginners?
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Hi I Just started to pick up Guitar and and was wondering what is the bet Guitar can get for around 100-400 Dollars?
Also should i be looking for nylon or steel string ?
It will be my first Guitar so any tips are appreciated
Answer
For a beginner guitar player most guitar music teachers
suggest the nylon string guitar for two main reasons:
1:Nylon strings are much easier on the fingers - no pain -
new players can play longer practice sessions.
2:You develop finger dexterity quicker since you are not using a "pick"
The other side of the coin is that nylon-string (AKA Classical)
guitars are built with a little wider neck than a steel-string guitar.
Players that will concentrate on "chord" playing as back-up
tend to prefer the narrower neck of the steel-string acoustic.
Most players of this instrument tend to use a "pick" rather
than "bare" fingers (maybe because of the hardness of the strings?).
If you prefer to play the melody of the music instead of chords
then the nylon string instrument may be more to your liking.
It is a matter of individual opinion since both types of
instruments can be used to play any kind of musical genre.
Nylon-strings guitar produce a "mellower" sound and
steel-string produce a "brighter" sound overall.
Be aware that almost all lower-priced guitars (under $800)
are manufactured overseas - primarily in the Asian/Far East
Many of the instruments come out of the same factory
and therefore "Brand/Labels" mean nothing.
Go For "Sound" and "Playability" Not for Labels.
My experience in buying guitars is that beginning at about
$200.you could get a reasonable good instrument
(regardless of "brand") with a solid-top.
Guitars with solid-top project sounds much clearer
and tend the improve as the wood "ages".
It is hard to find a solid-top guitar for under $200 but there
are fairly decent instrument (sound-wise) under this price
with a laminated top.
The laminated top guitars are "sturdier" - can take more
"punishment" but their sound will never improve with age.
My first guitar was "laminated" and I keep it for "sentimental reasons"
I now own 4 solid-top guitars with cedar, spruce, and mahogany solid tops.
My guitars cost from $200 to $600 .The most expenisve:
The Alvarez MC80 is from China It is solid wood all around.
One good value in a $200 solid-top guitar comes with
a "Sunlite" label Model GCN 2000F
This is a Classical guitar built with a Torres system
of bracing, a rarity in guitars at this price range.
A good source for Reviews of Acoustic guitars is
Harmony Central at www.harmonycentral.com
Many brands and specific models are given
reviews by actual players.
I have used it to "eliminate" instrument models
with poor ratings and to find what the player
did not like about the guitar.
In the final analysis it is you that have to decide what is best for you at your present level of guitar skills.
I hope this help in your search. Good Luck and Enjoy your guitar
For a beginner guitar player most guitar music teachers
suggest the nylon string guitar for two main reasons:
1:Nylon strings are much easier on the fingers - no pain -
new players can play longer practice sessions.
2:You develop finger dexterity quicker since you are not using a "pick"
The other side of the coin is that nylon-string (AKA Classical)
guitars are built with a little wider neck than a steel-string guitar.
Players that will concentrate on "chord" playing as back-up
tend to prefer the narrower neck of the steel-string acoustic.
Most players of this instrument tend to use a "pick" rather
than "bare" fingers (maybe because of the hardness of the strings?).
If you prefer to play the melody of the music instead of chords
then the nylon string instrument may be more to your liking.
It is a matter of individual opinion since both types of
instruments can be used to play any kind of musical genre.
Nylon-strings guitar produce a "mellower" sound and
steel-string produce a "brighter" sound overall.
Be aware that almost all lower-priced guitars (under $800)
are manufactured overseas - primarily in the Asian/Far East
Many of the instruments come out of the same factory
and therefore "Brand/Labels" mean nothing.
Go For "Sound" and "Playability" Not for Labels.
My experience in buying guitars is that beginning at about
$200.you could get a reasonable good instrument
(regardless of "brand") with a solid-top.
Guitars with solid-top project sounds much clearer
and tend the improve as the wood "ages".
It is hard to find a solid-top guitar for under $200 but there
are fairly decent instrument (sound-wise) under this price
with a laminated top.
The laminated top guitars are "sturdier" - can take more
"punishment" but their sound will never improve with age.
My first guitar was "laminated" and I keep it for "sentimental reasons"
I now own 4 solid-top guitars with cedar, spruce, and mahogany solid tops.
My guitars cost from $200 to $600 .The most expenisve:
The Alvarez MC80 is from China It is solid wood all around.
One good value in a $200 solid-top guitar comes with
a "Sunlite" label Model GCN 2000F
This is a Classical guitar built with a Torres system
of bracing, a rarity in guitars at this price range.
A good source for Reviews of Acoustic guitars is
Harmony Central at www.harmonycentral.com
Many brands and specific models are given
reviews by actual players.
I have used it to "eliminate" instrument models
with poor ratings and to find what the player
did not like about the guitar.
In the final analysis it is you that have to decide what is best for you at your present level of guitar skills.
I hope this help in your search. Good Luck and Enjoy your guitar
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