Guitar lessons
Guitar lessons review - After watching a great blues guitar performance,
one of the most common questions that comes by the audience is 'what
kind of guitar is that'? This reflects a common misconception about a
musician's performance, basically that it's the instrument and not the
guitarist that is responsible for the music! Never mind all the guitar
lessons and hundreds of hours practicing!
Guitar lesson - Every guitarist dreams of owning the best quality and
most expensive guitar, and somehow imagine that this will improve their
talents. Naturally it helps to use a very good guitar, but a good
musician will get an impressive sound out of any guitar, more or less.
It's pretty safe to say that you can purchase a reasonable quality
instrument for a few hundred dollars nowadays, and for the vast majority
of purposes, it's OK. The difference between a guitar costing 500
dollars and one costing 2000 is quite small.
Guitar lessons - Of course, it all depends on the instrument, and there
are always exceptions either way. For instance, Vintage market a parlor
guitar which costs well under $200 which was given the 'Best Acoustic
Under $1000' award by Acoustic Guitar Magazine a few years ago. On the
other end of the scale, I visited a friend who owns no less than five
top end Martins of different ages, and none of them were that 'special'.
It also depends on the use you put the guitar to. If you play
acoustically to a really appreciative audience, then the tone and
harmonic content are very important for the complete sound. However, if
you use the guitar amplified by a pickup inside the guitar or located
under the saddle, then the more delicate features of the construction
intended to improve the acoustic guitar sound are just wasted.
The best advice is to spend over $200 and less than $800. You will
surely get something in between that will suit your style. Look around
carefully, and consider a good second hand guitar, as long as it has
been looked after. It's a bit of a hit and miss business - sometimes you
win and sometimes you lose. The older Harmony and Stella guitars didn't
have a steel rod inside the neck, and tended to split at the joint
connection the neck to the body. This became very evident when
guitarists decided to change their gut strings for steel, often with
disastrous results. The extra tension produced sometimes broke the
guitar in two, and seemed to depend upon the quality of the
construction.
