Acoustic Guitars: How To Buy A Good Guitar

When you are in the market for a new, used or special instrument, first, beginner, choice classic or upscale, top-grade classical, acoustic guitar, you need to know what kind of techniques, music and repertoire you will be wanting to play, pursue and master. What kind of style and playing technique will also play into the selection. Your skill-level and whether or not it is your first, second or stand-by instrument.
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Acoustic Guitars: Playing Tips For Beginners

Every time you pick up the guitar to play, tune and practice at least the standard tuning method, for all six strings individually, and then as a whole, octaves and chords. Use the electronic tuner or opt for piano cues, reference point type cues from another guitar or tuning fork. This way, you will be establishing good artistic habits and you will sound better too (even if you cannot play very well, at least you are in tune!)
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Acoustic Guitars: Tuning Tips For Beginners

Practice does make perfect and mastering the basics should be a top priority, whether you are receiving formal instruction or self-taught. Guitar-tuning is something you can really sink your teeth into. The better you understand and master it, the better your playing will be in the long run. Many a beginner will just simply give up, because no matter how hard they try, it still sounds awful, much of it attributed to the guitar being horrifically out of tune.
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Acoustic Guitars: Tuning and Getting Ready To Play

Having appreciation for the instrument, a will to learn and play, will often start with the mastery of actually being able to tune the instrument (assuming all the parts are assembled and it has a pair of strings already on it!) that is!
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Acoustic Guitars: Construction Influences Sound

We continue our exploration of guitars and how they are made, what makes them more or less valuable, pricy with this musing on material and something called plate bracing.
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Acoustic Guitars: Three Characteristics

Almost as important as the design of the guitar is the acoustics themselves, which is enabled and enhanced by the types of materials, design and relatively important manufacturing secrets and construction features.
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Acoustic Guitars: Fun Facts

With a tale that spans over four centuries, there certain is a lot of trivia, facts, myths, speculation, patents, accessories, models, types and iterations of the modern guitar around.
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Acoustic Guitars: A Short History

During the middle ages, you found guitars of different shapes, design, soundboxes, some with three, four, and five strings, even curved sides. Some claims to fame have the Spanish or Hawaiians, contributing to our modern people’s favorite instrument.
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Acoustic Guitars: An Introduction

There is a pure artistry in the design and sound of every guitar, not two of them will ever be or sound quite the same. They have a proud history, legacy and development throughout the ages, with many guises and faces throughout time. The acoustic, non-electrical, variety, classical, stringed instrument  has been coming of age in recent decades and centuries.
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