What can you tell me about the acoustic jazz guitar?

Q. any info is greatley appriciated , thanks CB

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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?

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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

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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.

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What is the difference between playing acoustic guitar and 6 string bass?

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NickHighwi

I am an acoustic guitar player, but I have been looking at playing 6 string bass. I know the difference between the guitars, I want to know the difference between the playing style.

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Do you mean a full-scale six-string bass, or a bass VI like the old Fender bass VI or the Schecter Hellcat VI? A bass VI has a 30" scale, tuned E-e one octave below a standard guitar, and close string spacing. You can play it pretty much like a standard guitar but if you try to strum standard open chords on it, you'll sound godawfully muddy - much better played fingerstyle. Listen to old Ventures songs, and early Cream - Jack Bruce used one on the first album.

A six-string bass usually has a 34-35" scale and is tuned B-E-A-D-G-C, with that B way down where the bottom end of a piano keyboard is. I haven't tried, but it would be a nightmare to try to finger standard guitar chords across it and would sound like a thunderstorm rather than music to strum all six strings. You can play it quite effectively with any normal bass technique - finger, pick, or slap. The middle four strings are the same as a standard bass guitar, the extra two strings just give you more range and flexibility. They're popular in jazz settings especially where people want to play more melodic lines running up the C string. You can play them chordally but it's nothing like strumming along on an acoustic guitar. You really have to use bass guitar technique, there's not too much resemblance to guitar technique other than that it has strings and frets.

Can you use the same songbook for acoustic guitars and bass?

sara_w_smi

My dad has an acoustic guitar and I want to get him a songbook for Christmas. There is a collection of them called "Guitar Bibles" one of them specifically says "acoustic" and the rest do not. If I bought him one that didn't specifically say acoustic, could he use it?

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No acoustic books are for acoustic guitar (six strings)....not bass (four strings)...if your not sure ask the clerk in the store....if your buying this from the Internet....buy bass books for bass guitar...and acoustic books for acoustic guitars !!!!!!!! A lot of acoustic books have a finger style way of playing but this doesn't mean that it can't be played with a pick. If your buying in a store tell the clerk how your father plays and he will advise you as to what book would be best with his style of playing....if you don't know what your doing you might be buying a book that's for lead with chords over the top of the music notation, or one that's for classical, blues, or jazz. So if I were you I wouldn't buy this over the Internet unless your sure about his style of playing, and like I said, if your in a store ask the clerk....you didn't say if your father can read music...if not he'll need something called tab....that's a way of writing music for people who can't read music notation....some books have both music notation and tab....and then the chords over that....so be careful.... good luck, I hope that I helped you . !!!!!!!!!!

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