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Welcome to acoustic guitar For Beginners with Rich Maloof! Time to dust off your guitar and start strumming. You won’t be bogged down in this course by tedious exercises or music theory. Instead, we get straight to the mechanics of chords and strums so that you can pick up a piece of sheet music (or find some online) and start playing songs that you know and love.

As you click from lesson to lesson, check out the other elements in the video player. The Jam tracks, Text, and PDF’s all support the lessons taught on video.

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Waka Waka . Arranged and performed by Igor Presnyakov .
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I have a classical guitar right now and I’m looking into getting an acoustic with the steel strings and all that stuff. My classical guitar has 18 frets and 12 are open, so I feel as if it is too small. Am I right or is this guitar fine?

On a classical guitar, the neck usually joins the body at the 12th fret. That doesn’t mean the guitar is less than full size, but if you find you’re often reaching for those higher notes, you’ll probably want better access. Most steel stringed guitars join at the 14th fret, so you’ll gain a few there. You can also get either a classical or steel-string guitar with a cut-away, which lets you get all the way up the neck. (picture of a dreadnought steel-string with a cut-away: http://piccolosmusic.com/store/product/9198/Taylor-110ce/ )

Classical guitars do tend to have a smaller body than your average dreadnought acoustic guitar, although steel-string guitars also come in a variety of smaller shapes (e.g. the Martin OOO shown here: http://piccolosmusic.com/store/product/12402/Martin-000C-16RGTE-Aura/ ) The body shape mainly effects the sound, rather than the player, although the dreadnought shape may make you stretch a little if you have short arms.

The only thing you’d probably want to avoid is a 3/4 or 1/2 sized guitar, whose frets and strings are typically closer together than a full sized instruments. They’re good for kids, or if you want a more portable instrument. If you have average adult sized hands they may cramp your style. They typically don’t sound too great either.

Hope that helps.

Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) arrangement by Gareth Pearson on his CD “Urban Echoes Vol 1″ available at http://www.candyrat.com amazon.com, and itunes

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I’m 17. I’ve been playing my mom’s classical guitar for about a year now but I want to get my own acoustic. I’m really into jack johnson and similar artists. I can probably spend around 500 dollars. I went to my local guitar center and found a 350 dollar Seagull s6 that i loved. I also saw a martin dx1 there for 500 that was nice. Are either of these good choices for a first guitar? which one is better?

Either one will serve well if set up right. I assume you tried the guitars with relatively new strings on and well set up for playing.
I’ve heard reports of some finish problems and other things like rough fret ends on the low-end Martins, but this was a few years ago and one hopes they’ve cleaned up their act. I’ve always heard good things about Seagulls. Don’t know how big you are or if you want a body bigger than a classical, but I’ve tried some very impressive Korean-made dreadnaught body guitars. Look at Blueridge and Breedlove. These are mostly for flatpicking. If you’re used to a classical or think you might want to do more fingerpicking I’d look for one with a nut width of at least 1 3/4". That will be a big change from 52 mm or so for the classical, but that’s how they’re making them. Consider used, esp. if you know someone who knows guitars and can shop with you.

Good luck!

Steve

Fade to Black . Arranged and performed by Igor Presnyakov .
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Click the above link to check out our 4 DVD set titled “acoustic guitar TECHNIQUES” – its a killer 4 dvd set with over 8 hours of lessons and instruction to get your acoustic guitar playing to the next level.

This is part of a much longer lesson from the above dvd set where we teach you the technique of adding rhythmic chucking to your playing with open chords.

Many more lessons on the full on video instructional website at:
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He’s a Pirate ( Pirates of the Caribbean Theme ) . Steel srtings version . Arranged and performed by Igor Presnyakov . 2010 . The Netherlands .
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Beauty of Discipline, an original by Gareth Pearson on his CD “Urban Echoes Vol 1″ NOW available at http://www.candyrat.com amazon.com, and itunes

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In this video Guitar World’s gear editor Paul Riario demonstrates the features of the Blueridge BR-361 Parlour acoustic guitar.

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