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Which Your Guitar to Learn On?

There are three main types of guitar that you will encounter. They are:

- Classical Acoustic

- Acoustic

- Electric

Chances are that if you have asked someone if you can use their guitar for a while, it would probably be an old classical acoustic guitar or maybe a steel string acoustic.

These guitars are excellent to learn on because electric guitars require things like leads, amps, speakers and power. With acoustic guitars you only need a pick.

The other great thing about acoustic guitars is that you can't turn them up loud. When you are learning it is probably better to play on a guitar that isn't going too be loud, only loud enough so your ears can hear your errors and your good performances.

If you don't know which types of guitar you want to play on, ask yourself, 'what kind of music do I want to play?'

Pick a song that you like for its guitar sound. Listen to the guitar sounds and only the guitar sounds. Are they clean, soft sounds? Or are they harsh, heavy or distorted? Generally, acoustic guitars are softer and cleaner. Distorted, heavy sounds come from electric guitars that are plugged into amplifiers and effects units. Can you hear individual notes being picked or are the strings being strummed hard? The harder you play, the thicker your strings need to be. You need to know what style you want to play.

OK you have found a style of music that you like. Try and find out what the band video for that song is and watch it. There will probably be a section in there where the band is playing. In this part, look at the guitarist. Is he/she playing on an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar? What brand is it? What style? If you know the exact guitar from the video, you can ask to play on it at your local guitar shop to see if it suits you.

People play guitar for many different reasons. You need to understand what it is that you want to get out of the guitar. To discover your tastes in guitar music, listening to different styles and genres. Ask musicians at music shops about what kind of guitars different bands use, or ask them what kind of amps/effects those artists use to get that sound.

The answers don't have to be exact because they will get you thinking about what you need to buy to achieve the sound you are after.

For more information on achieving different guitar sounds, see our articles on basic guitar effects and guitar manufacturers and guitar models.

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About the Author

Britt Turner is an Music Teacher and Music Writer with over 25 years experience of Music Teaching. He has more information and resources for help you to learn music Fun, Fast and Easy at http://www.entertainbox.com/

guitar effects rig advise opinions?

Ok Here is my rig please give me advise.

Guitars Gib les studio to in this order Blues Driver, old dod chorus, tube screamer silver one, metal zone, ibanez delay, on the delay has to out puts one dry one delay. they go to two combo amps laney 50w all tube 1x12 and crate 80w gxt 100 hybrid tube 1x12 celestion amp.

I also have a roland guitar synth gr-30 unit that I am going to use on my strat copy that I am going to have to tie in somewhere.
yeah I now have the dod chorus to heavy metal hm2 to the ibanez tube screamer to the blues driver to the delay.

I am trying to get differnt overdriven tones with the differnt over drives.

there so many possbilities im still experimenting,

Mmmm, I like! I think you could give my 100w 4x12 Mesa Trem-o-Verb a run for its money. =)

Lately I've been expirimenting with putting the delay *before* the distortion.... I have a multifx ( Boss GT-3 ) that i've been playing around with, and I've found some interesting textures by putting a modulation effect, delay, and reverb (in that order more or less) before my overdrive/distortion.

Anyways, the only thing that I might do different is put the chorus before the Blues driver, but it does depend on how they interact, sometimes with those old DOD pedals driving them with distortion really makes them do crazy stuff.

I've been embracing a real simple approach to guitar lately, after years of running multiple pedals and pedal boards together... i'm back to using one multifx and sometimes a wah. I've also recently been playing around with two amps at once. It's a pain to try and make that happen, but it sounds amazing when you can make two amps switch at the same time.

Saul

Digidesign Eleven Rack Pro Tools LE Interface and Guitar Effects Unit @ FrontEndAudio.com