“Finding Quality Guitar Lessons can be Difficult and Frustrating!”
That’s why I have put together the collection of online guitar lessons and resources that you will find on this site. If you are a beginner at learning how to play guitar or if you are looking for a way to further develop your skills, I hope that you will find something here that will help you along the way. If you are a total beginner, I recommend you start with some of the lessons below and then either grab a self study guitar course or try private guitar lessons depending on your learning style. You will find my review of several courses and private lesson sources on the review page. Of course if you ever get stuck or need a few tips to help you get started just contact me and let me know.
how to evaluate acoustic guitars for quality, playing and buying
It’s pretty amazing, how people have been able to, over time, create and perfect masterful instruments made out of wood, bone, ivory, plastic and some steel, nylon or gut strings to produce one of the most beautiful-sounding instruments. . . the acoustic guitar.
For a beginning or intermediate guitar player, understanding the anatomy or the parts of a working acoustic guitar is important for many reasons:
- to help the player read and learn how to play from books, charts and videos
- to be able to communicate with other guitar players
- to be able to learn guitar from instructors
- to be able to teach others how to play the acoustic guitar
- to be able to “talk shop” with musicians and guitar technicians and more. . .
In this brief overview, we will discuss the Amazing acoustic guitar and all of it’s most common anatomy to aid the new player in becoming equipped. Additionally, if you are a beginner and looking to purchase an entry level or new guitar, this will help equip you when searching to buy the best beginner guitar that you can find for your budget.
You may start out wanting to learn to play classical guitar or you might want to learn classical guitar after you have gone through some other disciplines. Regardless, a lot of people including some very famous rock guitarists ultimately gravitate towards classical guitar instruction. Learning classical guitar will improve your playing no matter which discipline you ultimately prefer.
“Classical” usually refers to music that has survived time and cultures as works of beauty that never go out of style. This usually means composers like Mozart, Beethoven, Pachelbel and others but can also refer to music from the likes of Pink Floyd, Elvis Presley, The Who and others whose music has withstood the test of time. For our purposes here we will focus on the compositions of the old masters.
The most important aspect to learning classical guitar is the instrument itself. Not that you can’t play it on just about any type of guitar but you won’t get the sonic qualities of the music from anything other than a well constructed classical guitar. You’ll notice the difference in tone immediately if you try out a few bars on a classical guitar and then a standard acoustic or an electric guitar. When you learn to play classical guitar on the proper instrument you’ll learn to be aware of all the nuances and ambiance of the moods classical music seeks to convey.
