Posts Tagged ‘Acoustic Guitar’
Usually you play rock guitar with an electric guitar but you can use an acoustic guitar for playing rock guitar as well. The acoustic can add more colour, tones, texture and moods to your music. This makes it more interesting for you and for your listener. You need to like what you play or else you will get bored learning rock guitar.
Acoustic Guitar Techniques
There are a few different techniques to playing acoustic guitar. The strings are harder to hold down than on an electric guitar. If you can hold down notes and chords with no fret buzz on an acoustic guitar you will find it much easier on an electric. It can help you build up your hand strength.
The noises an acoustic make are different to an electric. The most common one is when you slide from fret to another you get a whirring sound from your fingertips against the strings. It does add something to acoustic playing but if you can get rid of the sound on an acoustic you will not get it on an electric guitar.
The guitar is one of the most popular musical instruments today. The guitar industry is huge, and includes everything from cheap guitars you can buy at discount stores to custom instruments that costs thousands of dollars. Many huge companies churn out guitars using a factory model and assembly-line production techniques, which allows them to bring down the cost of the guitars while still maintaining a certain quality. A custom guitar, on the other hand, is made once, usually by one individual luthier, who hand-picks the wood and creates a unique instrument every time.
There is no doubt that factory-made guitars cost less, and their quality depends on a number of factors. It’s also true that custom guitars aren’t necessarily great unless they are made by a talented luthier using good materials.
For example, wood selection is one of the most fundamental decisions that goes into the production of a guitar. Large companies buy wood in bulk and will set some level of standard for the parts that will be used for each guitar. But wood is not a uniform material, so even in factory guitars each one can be different and sound different depending on the density and the width of the grain present in the particular pieces of wood used in that guitar.
Want to learn how to play the guitar? The first step is clear: You need a guitar to play! But while the question is clear, the answer may not as simple as you think.
Step 1: Acoustic or Electric?
Make this decision based on your needs. What kind of music do you like? What style of guitar do you want to play? These may or may not be the same. Learning guitar and listening to music can be completely different things.
So to decide, take a quick look at these lists:
Electric guitar: Rock, Pop, Alternative, Jazz, Blues
Acoustic guitar: Country, Folk, Bluegrass, Campfire songs, Christmas carols, Classical, inspirational
It might also help to decide in what setting you want to play. If you’re hoping to play in a band, and the band plays one of the electric types of music, then an electric guitar may be best. If you’re like me, however, and you’re playing guitar for the social aspect, then an acoustic guitar is easier to pull out of a closet or throw over your shoulder on the way to a party, and an amp isn’t necessary.