Tips For Choosing The Right Guitar

For a beginner that just started learning guitar, choosing the right guitar is very important, which is better for beginners ? How much will it costs ?

According to the brands and the quality, a guitar can have a wide range of cost, starting from a hundred thousand until millions rupiahs!

For a beginner, it is not necessary to own an expensive guitar, but they need the "right" guitar. So it is not right if we choose a cheap guitar just because we are a beginner, because the right guitar is not cheap.

1. Interest

The first thing that you have to consider is determine your interest, do you want to play a classical acoustic guitar or a common acoustic guitar. A classic acoustic usually identical with nylon acoustic guitar (the strings is nylon) and usually used to play classical songs. And the acoustic guitar is called string guitar (using a string wires just like electric guitar)

2. Shape and Design

Shape and design is very important. Try to hold and feel the guitar body, is it what you've been searching for ? or not. Try to not choosing a guitar that the body is big but your body is smaller. From the design you can see how many frets on the neck.

3. Comfort

1 of the factor that determines the comfortability of the guitar. Comfort that means that the neck fit on your fingers.

4. Sounds

Sounds is the important point if we want to buy a guitar. There are many sound characteristics of guitar, even every guitar have different characteristic. Try to play notes above fret 12 and listen if the sound is clear and not out of tune.

5. Price Survey

Before buying we better do some survey about the price of guitars. You can search it from internet or you can directly ask from guitar stores. But i recommend that you ask directly from the guitar store because you can see the guitar right in front of your eyes than from the internet.