Whats A Good Acoustic Guitar For Beginners?
Friday, May 6th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
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What’s A Good Acoustic Guitar For Beginners?
By: John Sizemore
Investing in a guitar will be one of the biggest decisions you need to make when setting out to learn to play guitar. However, going out and buying a really expensive guitar is not necessary when starting out. You just want to make a good enough investment as to not get discouraged while learning and also to not “break the bank”. Well made guitars keep there value. So, it would be worth your while to buy something decent. As you start to progress you will then find that you want certain sounds and tones and you’ll then set out to purchase a guitar with considerable value. Let’s take a look at what to look for in a good guitar for beginners.
Yes! There ya have it! Yes! Learning guitar is hard. There are thousands of sites out there that tell you it’s easy. Heck! Even I’m guilty of telling people a time or two the guitar is easy, just so I could get them to try. If any of the sites out there actually told you how hard it is… You may not try and they want you to take their guitar lessons. I can’t tell you how many times I get this question. Not that there are really any stupid questions….. But, come on people! If guitar was really easy, everyone would be doing it. As Tom Hanks from A League Of Their Own said: “the hard is what makes it great”.
I know you’ve heard the saying “Practice Makes Perfect”? For the most part I believe this is correct. However, have you ever set out to learn something new but had no clue where to begin or how to learn it? Let’s take learning a sport for instance. Let’s say Basketball. Sure, you could probably just huck that ball up there and hope that it goes in . Or, you could have a coach examine your posture, the way you dribble and control the ball, how you shoot & then have him/her work with you on the proper techniques. So with practice you would get better and better at getting that darn thing in the hoop. Could you imagine trying to learn basketball from videos with no prior experience? It would be awful! Well, I believe learning the guitar is the same.
OMGosh! I can’t believe some of the advice other guitar players are giving beginner guitar players out there!? I was reading a thread in the 
There are so many ways to approach learning guitar. People have so many learning styles that one way might not be the best for everyone. You can start right out learning theory, reading music, playing classical guitar note for note or just learn to strum a few strums and learn from a “
