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How to pick the guitar June 4, 2010

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grade grade distinction is not to brand as the standard, depending on its use of wood. Here I am on three different grades of guitar to make a simple introduction.

1. Plywood Wooden Guitar

This is one of the lowest grade guitar, no matter what brand of guitar, it is in a popular grade. Of these guitars is white pine plywood panels, back and sides of plywood for general use hard wood constitutes a good number of the dorsal plate, such as: rosewood plywood, mahogany plywood and so on. The grade of the guitar sound general, but there is no development, and general to do an exercise. Its price from 100 to 1000 per month, some imported brand-name guitars and some even to a few thousand dollars, but in view of its nature or low-grade guitar. Distinction grade guitar guitar sound hole we can see some of the wood, the general office plywood guitar from the sound hole is very obvious to see the three sandwich, no sandwich is formed by the wood, so that we can identify the guitar grade.

2. Veneer guitar

this guitar is a mid-range guitar,tenor guitar, sound quality on it from the guitar much better than plywood, vigorous tone, texture and good for development. After that period of play the player, it is more sensitive to sound wood, the guitar sound better than new. Its panel is constituted by the white pine, white pine is the world's acknowledged guitar to do the best wood. Dorsal plate is mahogany or rosewood plywood form. General domestic prices of veneer guitar more than 1,000 yuan, while the prices of imported veneer guitar 10,000 yuan.

3. Independent board guitar (all wood guitar)

This is one of the highest grade wood guitar, usually with a guitar recital. It from the sound quality, tone and volume on the first two guitar is unmatched. It's panel is composed of white pine, some high-end Steinway panel to go through ten years or even centuries of natural air-dried, and then select from a number of wood in the upper panel as a timber out of the dorsal plate is usually caused by rosewood or mahogany constitute the world's best recognized of the dorsal plate is Brazilian rosewood, but it has a rare plant in Brazil to protect up. (Well-known brands such as MARTIN acoustic guitar acoustic guitar)

acoustic guitar use the Cotton Tree, stars, etc., the price is about 200-300 yuan enough, Steller's piano more affordable but not your sound is not bad. electric guitar with Squier on the Strate or Tele series, this brand of good ,750-800 yuan, 650 yuan less often false ~ ~ because of this very popular brand of guitar, performance ratio and the price of the electric guitar is much better

was the selection of beginner guitar

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not have the physical appearance of Malpractice, such as cracks, scratches, wear, loose, crooked (some curved neck This exception) and so on.

2 feel

First and foremost, do not fight product the same time, it should be for each product, one by one try. Strings can not be too high, the general 1 goods Department chord 1mm, 12 products Office 5mm below the other, there are, for example, whether the comfortable grip, Anxian have practical sense, sliding string marked fret when separated flu good piano, silk goods arc good, feeling weak, bad piano, will feel surprised a moment surprised a moment of.

3 Intonation

Methods: 12 items overtones, and product specification to be equal to 12 pitch, addition, tuning can be made with a variety of tests, such as products with a 3 4 = 2 strings are tuned higher , and then try again 9 3 string = 1 string sound products is high, and so on, 4,5,6 strings.

4 sound

several indicators, the first overtone easy to bomb, and the sound bright and clear, to test products overtone 5,7, 12 goods, and then the strings are broken ring, Second, longer sustain, especially in high-to-bit, rubbing piano, almost no sustain, on the out \

5 working

silk products such as grinding, even if smooth, no obvious means plate, the interior of the polished piano, whether wood thorns! These things not only check whether these indicators qualified by these features, and you can imagine to this brand De workers, what do Chin mentality is doing the furniture is doing music, Biaomian effort are hastily, then look no to place, such as wood selection, etc., you know what kind of fool he was.

6 to see the most important timber

GUITAR is a timber. From the wood's color, texture, etc. to judge. Common wood used for piano and about Ash, Alder, Mahogany, Basswood, Maple and so on. Ash sounds clear and bright, often light brown lines are deep and big. Usually not too heavy. For example FENDER Stratocaster, Telecaster model. Alder Ash than light, rich sound, good low-frequency resonance. Is light brown with smaller lines. Stratocaster,flying v guitar, Telecaster Mahogany wood be very heavy, sweet, rich tone, evident in the low frequency. Usually reddish-brown with a black fine lines. For example GIBSON Les Paul, PRS. High price of wood is very expensive piano decision. Basswood is a light wood color and fair complexion almost no flights fine lines. IF clear his features. For example, Ibanez Jem series. b c rich mid-range piano and so on. Maple sounds clear and bright, very good high frequency performance. However, heavy weight, usually thin layer of paste on the Body (Top), will have beautiful lines. Common with Flame (Curly), Quilted, Bird''s Eye of several, or no special lines (Plain) of. Les Paul is usually affixed a layer of Maple Top Maple. Neck wood used as an impact on the sound. But because the neck would also bear the string tension, so common wood Maple and Mahogany. Because both the wood more easily deformed, can withstand higher string tension level. Especially the maple, the most commonly used as a neck. The mahogany is less likely to distort the merits, so some of the maple neck Fender behind a mahogany, is there to strengthen the role of neck. This neck also known as \Are generally common Fender maple neck, and Gibson on the popular mahogany neck. neck above, there is a thin layer of wood chips, the so-called Fretboard (some piano is the neck and fretboard with a piece of wood called a one-piece). It is the most direct contact and the player, because in there is a section of the \It sounds and feels a significant extent.

slowly pick when to buy, do not influence by the boss, no boss said his piano piano is broken, and will say that a good many cattle, and more value, ignore him, of course, satisfy the above conditions for all the strings may be small, not cheap, through their own purchasing power, and slowly down to bring down the bar, there are some piano, can be adjusted later to improve the previous situation, such as neck adjustment, bridge, piano, pillows, finger adaptability and so on. A multi-year production workers guitar truthfully said.

1, acoustic guitar and purchase of teaching materials related to acoustic guitar

just friends first need is your weapon:) often have many friends asked , what kind of guitar to buy it for own? First of all, I would like to be clear, you learn what the original intention of the guitar? Is it a whim? Or want to learn guitar, as its a skill (which specializes in music production, except the peer), then you can perform on stage (not necessarily a big scene). Many friends were like playing and singing a few songs directed at, or get MM to welcome and learn the guitar it ~~:)( this should be the majority, it is understandable, after all, there was support for dynamic go Well ~ ~ Ha ha) that I think, as the first class is just learning to play the kind of friends, you can buy the most popular piano, piano practice general we call price is usually between 150-250, also looks pretty good ~ ~ because the general type of piano there are many colors to choose, either there is a will for you ~ ~ I used to have a blue piano practice, the West II should have seen some old friends:) (because then money is not enough you can not afford a good piano, had to first on what, after all, a long way since); the second category can consider buying a piano in the high-end, and prices generally in the 400-1000 range, of course, better , and it depends on your personal economic strength, and if the event after not playing, and you can do at home decorating, friends, and also can be used to show off ~ ~ ~

Qin direction determined after purchase , is to buy a piano, the proposal should please knowledgeable friend to help you with buying, or the owner can recommend piano, it would be appropriate to buy their own piano. For starters, the piano in the election when 3 point to note is pure sound, light, comfortable feel if there are products that have hit phenomenon. This is a good or bad to judge a piano one of the main criteria to note when purchasing Chin Oh ~ ~ ~

After you buy the piano, is a textbook. If teachers taught, then generally do not buy, the teacher will recommend you what to buy or give you his own material; if self-taught, they can consider buying \of a textbook, and the price is 44RMB (I was in Shanghai Book City to see the price, I had bought when my teacher brought over from Taiwan, mainland China was not, hehe ~ ~ ~ price is also more expensive) If you feel that your words, you can buy Chuan's \~) As for what other better, we can consider their own, after all, learning guitar is your thing, a little heart can find a friend needs it ~ ~ ~

the following key for those self- written by a friend (usually guitar beginners to go through the learning process), of course, if the teacher can teach one to see, please share it all together ~ ~

2, Page Zi and scale exercises < br>
just received the guitar must be very excited about it ~ ~ ~ Well, now we should start our trip to the guitar. Many friends have asked, Page Zi What? In fact, the so-called Page Zi is actually \We must not ignore the Page Zai, he hands you the expansion of the board's feeling that, right-hand man of flexibility, grasp of rhythm is very important. Especially the electric guitar practice, and this is even more important. We normally say 60,80,120, or even 180-200 (figures represent the number of shot in a minute, the general practice with a metronome assisted) are practiced by Page Zai out, we usually start fingering is common practice 1234 , after a long accumulation, and then gradually increase speed, just to learn if friends, hope to do this exercise every day at least 30 minutes, which you hand ligament for expansion is very effective for. Maybe just the start of some boring, the hand is very acid, but if we continue to play a solid foundation, and that the future of learning is very helpful.

next is scale, and most beginners are all accustomed to from the beginning to learn the C scale is because of the nature of the guitar strings sound tone scale is C, 6 string for the bass 3, and then refer to board chromatic interval relations can be projected down ~ ~ ~ This is the beginners learned the first tune, and then later in turn learn G, D, A, E, F and other notes, scale exercises for your sense of hearing and beyond Grilled song writing is very important, 10 million and Page Zi as not to lose sight of the ~ ~ ~ but also for unfamiliar songs, but also the melody in the guitar pop to help understand.

3, chord and rhythm

folk guitar as an accompaniment of stringed instruments, of course, a chord. Here we do not speak chord theory, but is about practicing. Involves many friends in just chords, I felt fingers not open my hands, or noise when playing, sounds boring and so on. The former is the \The intensity of the latter and the An Xian, the location has a direct relationship. Efforts to expand the effort to practice can also be by Page Zi, the four fingers on the order of 4 to place a few minutes, or simply press and hold down a chord, plucked, up until the elimination of noise; other fingers Anxian of location should also note that, as far as possible so that your fingers can put up to, and that the vertical plate, according to the character spacing of the previous point, there is the sound the most full, mellow place, after the adoption of practice, it is not difficult to overcome the ~ ~ ~ Second, the early scholars encountered a problem is the first chord of the conversion, the two hands will often feel very confused, then you can only do chords to practice, and to switch between just two chords, and find the conversion of the shortcut such as the C switch Am, just move one or two fingers can do ~ ~ ~ The conversion method requires you to understand your a ~ ~ ~ in C Major, everyone must take some major chords exercises cooked CG Am Em F Dm E G7, so almost by capo can be playing and singing all the songs ~ ~:)

following us, that rhythm, usually when starting to learn, simple broken chords from the beginning such as T1213121, T 1 23 1, T12321, etc., these are the flexibility to help you practice right, and the location of the grasp of the string, remember the beginning of the right hand fingers in charge of their own where the strings, not confused ~ ~ ~ in the Saoxian right hand when the attention moves, not stiff, so the wrist of the arc-type movement, you can gently touch (or your friend may be because you release a lot of noise but are very critical to you Oh, in fact, not only to find place where you can and be proud ~ ~ ha ha ~ ~ Fortunately I had a lot of guitar roommate, we together, there is less, and anyway have a kind of incredible chaos ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~) there is playing with their feet to beat time when, the unsteadiness of the rhythm do not pay attention to continuity ~ ~ ~

4, singing and singing with the bomb with some essentials

many friends feel change in the chord and rhythm on both practice almost, very skilled, but to sing when they feel can not keep up, very confused. I would like, you can adopt the following solution to ~ ~ ~ First of all, make sure the song you want to bomb cooked, it is best to memorize scores, and this will naturally formed in the mind the process generally, and then just put your fingers what your brain is reflected to form a conditioned reflex, and sometimes we forget suddenly find chords, but continues to operate hand or is the truth ~ ~ ~ Second, at the beginning may slow down after such a skilled to the original speed, remember not to rush, many friends is because they feel themselves unable to sing with shells also give up, or go to the bomb lead guitar ~ ~ ~ so do not lose heart, insisted that victory ~ ~ ~ In fact, learning the guitar is very good, oh ~ ~ ~ As for the singing Well, we have to pay attention is to utilize breath, the sound had been erected, and not light with a voice, especially when sitting (usually taken to sitting playing and singing folk songs), so we must pay attention to the use of the breath ~ ~ ~ Another point is that we must dare to sing, daring to open, do not be bashful, song is used to express feelings, to resonate with others, and if this can be done, that goal is achieved:)