So you 've decided you want to be a rockstar, eh? You 've decided that you 're going to join the likes of Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Stevie Ray and Slash as a rock n ' roll and guitar icon. Well, before you get too famous and lose yourself in either your music or drugs and alcohol, you have to get a guitar to begin with. It can be daunting to go into a guitar store and see millions of guitars, some for $200 and some for $2000. So which ones should you go for and what should you be looking at? Well I 'll do my best to lend you a helping hand in this oh so important first step. First of all you have to decide what you want to play, electric guitar or acoustic. I would recommend starting out on acoustic because most players do and it is usually
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So there are many types of electric guitars, however for your first electric you should be looking at solid bodied ones. I have found in my experience that the first guitar should really be dependent on what music you like. If you Slash or Jimmy Page for example a Les Paul style guitar is a good choice, if you like Clapton or Hendrix go for the Strat style and if you 're into Kirk Hammett or Tony Iommi anything with humbuckers is good (Sg copies, Ibanez, ESP). In my opinion I would say to get a strat style guitar except look for ones with an HSS setting. This means they have two single coil pickups, which are softer and more creamy sounding and a humbucker which is more for rugged rock. As far as amps are concerned there are a lot of good amps out there for cheap. You should look for amps that have a clean and a distortion channel as well as ones that have built in effects because it 's fun to mess around with them. Remember you 're not playing in a stadium yet so you don 't need a big amp, anything from 10-20 watt 's should do. There are two kinds of amps, Tube and Solid State. For beginner 's i would recommend solid state amps because as a rule they are cheaper and usually come with built in …show more content…
All other elements are built off of the Major scale. Knowing how the Major scale is built will give you a good start as a musician. In music, we talk about "steps" and "half steps", so let 's define these terms first. You 'll see why later on. There are seven notes in any musical scale. For C Major, this would be A, B, C, D, E, F, G. After the G, the pattern repeats. The 8th note is called an octave. Each individual note along the way is called a tone. Envision the fret board of a guitar. Each fret is a half step, regardless of direction. For this writing, we will abbreviate as follows: 1) When you see "5 / 3", this means 5th string, 3rd fret. 2) Open means that the string is sounded with no frets used at all. Example: Starting at a C (5 / 3), the tones in order are C(5 / 3), C# (5 / 4), D(4 / open), D#(4 / 1), E(4 / 2), F(4 / 3). These are all half steps. Now that that is all clear, we can look at a Major scale. The key of C is easiest due to it having no flats or sharps in it. This is unique and is the ONLY key like it in all musicdom. The format of a Major scale uses steps and is extremely simple. The format of every Major scale is: ~ whole step ~ whole step ~ half step ~ whole step ~ whole step ~ whole step ~ half step Now let 's use C Major as an example. Start at C (5 / 3): * whole step is From C (5 / 3) to D (4 / open) * whole step is from D (4 / open) to E (4 /
So there are many types of electric guitars, however for your first electric you should be looking at solid bodied ones. I have found in my experience that the first guitar should really be dependent on what music you like. If you Slash or Jimmy Page for example a Les Paul style guitar is a good choice, if you like Clapton or Hendrix go for the Strat style and if you 're into Kirk Hammett or Tony Iommi anything with humbuckers is good (Sg copies, Ibanez, ESP). In my opinion I would say to get a strat style guitar except look for ones with an HSS setting. This means they have two single coil pickups, which are softer and more creamy sounding and a humbucker which is more for rugged rock. As far as amps are concerned there are a lot of good amps out there for cheap. You should look for amps that have a clean and a distortion channel as well as ones that have built in effects because it 's fun to mess around with them. Remember you 're not playing in a stadium yet so you don 't need a big amp, anything from 10-20 watt 's should do. There are two kinds of amps, Tube and Solid State. For beginner 's i would recommend solid state amps because as a rule they are cheaper and usually come with built in …show more content…
All other elements are built off of the Major scale. Knowing how the Major scale is built will give you a good start as a musician. In music, we talk about "steps" and "half steps", so let 's define these terms first. You 'll see why later on. There are seven notes in any musical scale. For C Major, this would be A, B, C, D, E, F, G. After the G, the pattern repeats. The 8th note is called an octave. Each individual note along the way is called a tone. Envision the fret board of a guitar. Each fret is a half step, regardless of direction. For this writing, we will abbreviate as follows: 1) When you see "5 / 3", this means 5th string, 3rd fret. 2) Open means that the string is sounded with no frets used at all. Example: Starting at a C (5 / 3), the tones in order are C(5 / 3), C# (5 / 4), D(4 / open), D#(4 / 1), E(4 / 2), F(4 / 3). These are all half steps. Now that that is all clear, we can look at a Major scale. The key of C is easiest due to it having no flats or sharps in it. This is unique and is the ONLY key like it in all musicdom. The format of a Major scale uses steps and is extremely simple. The format of every Major scale is: ~ whole step ~ whole step ~ half step ~ whole step ~ whole step ~ whole step ~ half step Now let 's use C Major as an example. Start at C (5 / 3): * whole step is From C (5 / 3) to D (4 / open) * whole step is from D (4 / open) to E (4 /