But if you buy mass production guitars you have the chance to play the market and see what’s available there. Well let’s say you already decided to buy a Fender Stratocaster with Lightning Strike Burst finishing, there are several ways to get one:

1. You can simply go to your local music shop and buy it.

The advantage of this method is that you will have the chance to see the products live and real. You will be able to touch it and try it to see if it fits your hands. Now about the price. Always remember that local music shop rarely sell anything “at cost”. So if you say something like, “I think I could get a cheaper price on this one somewhere (which is usually true), can you get me a cut price on this?”

Very frequently they will be able to take something off from price; or at least give you some free picks or free set of strings or at discount. You never know, but remember that it never, ever, hurt to ask. Also check out a lower advertised price on same item at a local competitor. Many of them will beat the price to get your deal.

2. Check out online retailers like ZZounds or Musician’s Friend.
Compared to local music shop, usually you will find better prices and better selections when you browse through these online retailers. Plus, you get the chance of reading the user reviews that we talked about earlier.

Pros:

• Better Price, Better Selection
• Many accessories available. You need picks, strings, cases, or fretboard cleaner, or perhaps an instructional video? You can have them here also.
• Free shipping, although you may have to spend on certain amount to meet the requirements or purchase a case to qualify.

Cons:

• Shipping charge applied if you don’t reach the minimum or buy any certain items as required.
• You can’t see the products until it arrives at home. If possible, I suggest that you played it before to get the feel of how it handles.

3. Check Craigslist and Ebay for Second-hand deals

In case you don’t know yet, Craigslist is a worldwide classifieds list from which you can find almost any merchandise imaginable (such as guitars!) for sale by individuals.

Pros:

• Wide selection of guitars and gears.
• Lower asking prices. Let me give you illustration on this. Supposed I want to sell my guitar on some local music shop, which then re-sell it to you as a consumer, I will get some money on it, but would be not as much as if I sell it directly to you. So as long as the guitar offered on craigslist is cheaper than you can get from your local music shop, then it’s a great deal for you (and the seller).
• You may don’t have to pay anything for it. No I’m not saying that it would be free at all, but sometimes people on craigslist are willing to accept trade for gears. A barter as you can say. I found a guy on my area who wanted to trade his 76 Chevy truck for original BB King series Les Paul guitar. Well you never know what people may be willing to trade for.

Cons:

• Beware! Especially if you play the buyer part. Since you don’t know the people you are buying from, so I suggest that you exercise due diligence before making any purchase. This is an online transaction, you won’t be able to see the products offered until it arrives, and you probably won’t be able to return it if later on you finds out that it wasn’t what you expected. If you have any doubts or something that seems too good to be true, don’t do it!

While ebay of course; is probably the world’s no 1 online auctioneer. Looking items in here will expand your search range to anywhere in the world. Supposed if you can’t find the one you’re looking for in here it may not be for sale. Buying a guitar here would probably doesn’t put you in your comfort zone but the deals you get here can be well worth it.

Pros:

• Selection is Unprecedented
• If you use Paypal for payment, there will be protection if there was some misrepresented, etc.

Cons:

• Since this is an auction, there is possibility that you would be outbid on the last second.
• Until the guitar falls in your hands after you’ve pay it, you will never know what’s the seller means with “a few small scratches”. Sure there are pics when you make the bid, but pics are definitely not the substitute for guitar you are holding and stare at it directly.
• Is there any savings if you buying from here? Well you have to at least pay for the shipping price, unless if it happens that you live near the seller location and they allow local pick up.

Buying a guitar especially if this is your first time, can be tricky, just take your time, ask a lot to your guitar player friends, and follow this simple guide, then you have a good chance everything’s went right. Good luck on finding your special one, and when you do be sure to browse back the lesson section to get you started.

My advice is if that you’re actively involved in “buying guitar” process and assuming that you haven’t grabbed best and killer price from family or friends, then I suggest that you’re find a good reason to buy a guitar that does not solely depend on its looks or because it’s extremely cheap. Too cheap for you to resist.

I understand that if this is your first time, you probably wouldn’t drop tons of money until you know that you’re going to like it. Just remember, just like anything else, there are cheap guitars that are good deals and there are cheap guitar that is just cheap over all. I mean they are just cheap and not worth to buy. And your job is to find the first one, they’re out there somewhere, you just have to know where to find them.

And everyone can do this research in their own different ways. As for me when I’m buying a guitar I’ll check out one of the online music retailer such as zzounds.com and browse through the list until I found something that interest me.

There two valuable functions doing this:
• Let you to see a view array of guitar selections; some that are not available in your local shop along with information about the specs and prices.
• You can read the reviews written by people who actually have played the instrument. By doing this you will have valuable information that you can give as consideration when you walk on into a shop.

You can also do the reverse, for example you may choose the visit the local shop first, and find guitars that seems to be a great choice based on your desire and goals; then you can find reviews from online source written by actual users. I would suggest you to go to Harmony Central. I found this so far as the best.

Whatever it is, make sure that you always read up information about any guitar before you decide to buy it. That way you will at least minimize the chances of regretting the purchase later.

You should really-seriously thinking about it. Is there any particular guitar or style of guitar you would like to have? Asking some guitar players to point you to the right direction would be useful.

In General
In general, for most beginners taking formal guitar lessons, a standard steel-string acoustic guitar seems like a smart choice, since they usually require the smallest investment. You’re not required to buy an amp, cable etc just to make it works. For simple basic chords learning and simple picking patterns, these would do just fine.

In my experience, when I first started, I was learning from lesson series books my instructor using which consist of classic song such as “Happy Birthday etc”. I went through acoustic route and I was doing fine.

In fact by beginning with acoustic guitar you’ll be benefit in gaining strength and endurance at your fingers, rather than straight jumping to electric. Your fingers would develop incredible endurance and strength when using the acoustic guitar. You need to press a little harder than on electric.

But To Be Honest…
Still, no matter how good or important acoustic for my learning, I wanted to play the electric from the start.

And I know that it would be a better choice for some people. Let’s say that you’re learning from song to song basis rather than following the standard lesson book, electric will give you extra flexibility and range to deal rather than acoustic can handle. You can go from Happy Birthday song to Smoke on the Water.

Furthermore, as I said earlier that it would be a lot of easier to hold basic chords on electric than on acoustic.

But remember you have gotta have amps, cables, and all that stuffs.

Give it thought to make your decision, but don’t stress it too much, because if you ends up loving guitars as much as I do, then you’ll have both acoustic and electric guitars anyway. So take it easy.

For Non Beginners…
If you’ve been playing for sometimes then I supposed you will be able to determine on what you’re looking for in a guitar. But still, it wouldn’t do any harm if you ask around; who knows others would have better idea, do your research, and make sure you get what’s best for you and your goals.

If this is to be your first ever guitar purchase, then let me congratulate you for that. Your fun is about to begin. And if you already bought a guitar or two in the past, and you want to add one in your collection, you know that it’s always exciting thing to do.

But still you have to work with the excitement and not get carried away by it during the purchase. All I’m saying, no matter how excited you are on guitar purchase; is that whether you’re new or been playing for thirty years or so, when it comes to guitar shopping you need to be a smart shopper. You don’t wanna regret it later wouldn’t you?

And this guide will help you in buying axe into shape.

1. Buying a Guitar: What Do You Want?

2. Buying a Guitar: Research Tips

3. Buying a Guitar: Purchase Tips

You need a guitar! Well that’s obvious isn’t it?

But before you do that in case if you haven’t got one, or you considering to get another one, and since this is a beginner guitar lesson, let’s us start with anything you need to know about guitar. I’m sure most of you have already know what a guitar looks like, how it played, and what the sounds like. But for those who haven’t… Well, I really don’t know what to say to you. I mean common people, it’s guitar! How strange can it be? It’s not some short of super weird traditional musical instrument from out of nowhere. It’s a guitar!

Ok now, you know what a guitar is, but I’m sure not all of you know what type of guitar you have. In fact even some guitar players still don’t know the types of guitars! I’m not kidding! They’ve played it but still some don’t know what type of guitar they’re playing. So I think it would be good if as beginner we should know any of these materials:

• Guitar Types
  It’s just something you need to know about the types of guitars, like what its like, what kinda strings they’re have, what are they used for, etcetera, etcetera…
• Guitar Tonewoods
  As you know most guitars are made of woods. We’re going a lil’ physic here, in case you don’t know that a guitar sound is made of strings struck resonate by its wooden body. That’s why you’ll see a hole in its body, to resonance the sound and make it louder. And that’s why any woods materials a guitar made of should be impact on the sound quality that will produce. And you’ll be step ahead of any guitar players if you know about this stuff.
• Buying a Guitar
  Well that’s easy. But not as easy as it looks. You’ll deal with hundreds choices that will blur your mind. But this cover will help you where to buy a good guitar from.

Right, now that you have your guitar, it’s time to do something about it. It’s time you learn how to play it. And the first lesson a guitar player should have is to work on those weak and lame fingers. Remember, you’ll play guitars with your fingers. And there’s nothing better to train those fingers than chords. It’s a great way to practice.

So I would like you to try these particular chords first:

• Guitar Power Chords
  Okay these aren’t technically chords actually, but it showed up in any songs that requires guitar playing. I mean they’re everywhere. And you can’t call yourself a guitar player if you don’t know any of these chords.
• Basic Guitar Chords
  Now here comes the real parts, after learning those now it’s time for you to move on to the real deal. And these basic are the staple of any beginner guitar lesson everywhere.

Let’s move on then, after you’ve done practicing any of those chords, it should makes you familiar to hold your guitar. Next is to practice the movement of your fingers. Go ahead to guitar playing techniques page where you will learn what the different techniques are and how to tie them all together. Just take it easy. Your speed and technical proficiency will come in practice. Just keep on going.

See, the thing is, like all short of things, it’s up to you really. You can do it or you can’t do it. It’s really up to you then. I don’t know why many people failing in any guitar online lesson, guitar tutorials, or guitar courses or anything I don’t really want to know, but I guess it’s the feeling that you have to study everything in front of tutor to make it happen. You don’t believe that you can study it by yourself.

Now, I’m not saying that you don’t need any tutor in your lesson at all; you will still need proper guidance in case you found difficulties in your lesson, but all I’m saying is that you can do this. You can learn how to play guitar online. And you can make it! And I’m gonna help you with that. But again it’s really up to you and you yourself.

Ok enough chit chat, so what do we got in here? Well as you may guess, this is an online guitar lesson site, of course I’m gonna teach you how to play guitar. I’m not gonna say that you will be great and hot in an instant. I’m not gonna promise you to be as good as Eddie, swinging the guitar strings with electric drill, be as fast as super speed Yngwie or be as freak as Munky with 6 strings guitar and making all of that crazy noise after you follow my lesson here. I believe it’s gonna take a while before you manage to do that, except if it turns out that you’re some short of music genius or something.

Read again, guitarlessonbeginner.com!

It’s a guitar lesson for beginner, means that GuitarLessonBeginner.com will teach you basic things to play guitar. Even if you never had played or picked up guitar in your entire life (really?!), if you follow the lesson properly here, read every materials right, understands it, and practice practice practice; I’m sure even you’re be not as good as any rock stars out there, you will be able to play guitar properly! I promise you that.

Alright, everything was set. Let’s get going then!

STANDARD FOLK GUITAR

This is a very widely used guitar today. It may be played with the fingers or with a pick. It is characterized by a round sound hole and a more narrow neck than is found on the “classic”-type guitars. The narrow neck is easier to finger barre or more complicated chords on. Ball-end nylon strings may usually be put on this type of guitar; however, since it is made for steel strings, it will not produce a tone with nylon comparable to a guitar made for nylon. It is a good rule to stick with whatever type of strings the guitar was originally made for (i.e., nylon or metal). This type of guitar puts out considerably more volume than a nylon-stringed or classical guitar.

JUMBO FOLK GUITAR

This style of guitar is similar to the standard folk guitar except, of course, for the larger body. While the large body on this type is bulkier to handle, a fuller and deeper tone results from it. A fuller volume range can be obtained from this style of guitar than from a standard folk model. Some jumbo models come with a wide neck comparable to that found on a classic guitar.
This is advantageous to the player who devotes most of his playing to fingerstyle. Standard folk guitars and jumbo folk guitars are sometimes referred to as “flat-top” guitars due to the flat surface on the face of the guitar (containing the round sound hole).

TWELVE-STRING GUITAR

The 12-string guitar has a large body which is similar to a jumbo model. The neck is wider in order to comfortably fit all 12 strings. The guitar is played like a regular 6-string model since the strings are tuned to the same notes. On a 12-string guitar there are six sets of strings, two strings to a set. Each set is tuned to the corresponding set on a 6-string guitar; however, some sets may have an octave spread. While this style of guitar is excellent for folk and blues playing, it is bulkier and less mobile technically. It is not recommended, therefore, that a student begin with this type of guitar.

ARCH-TOP

This type of guitar gets its name from the curved (arched) top on the instrument. Both the front and back of this type of guitar are arched. Modern arch-top guitars contain”F”-shaped sound holes. The curvature of the front and back lend a degree of mellowness to the sound. The”F” holes tend to project the sound for greater distances than a comparable round-hole model. Arch-top guitars find much usage as rhythm instruments in dance bands and in country music. Most folk and fingerstyle players prefer the immediate full spread of sound found on round-hole models. Arch-top guitars have metal strings.

SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC

This is the type of guitar found inmost of today’s rock music. It is built for speed and amplification. The sound possibilities are endless, depending on the pick-up, tone, and amplifier combination chosen. It is usually cheaper and more practical to begin on a non-electric (acoustic) model.

ACOUSTIC ELECTRIC

This type of guitar is also found in much of today’s rock music. Again, the sound possibilities vary according to the electric components selected. Many jazz guitarists prefer an acoustic electric with a deep body. (Essentially this is an arch-top guitar with an electric pick-up mounted on it.) A mellow tone can result from this combination, but the type of electrical pick-up and amplifier influence this.

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