Tips on Choosing and Buying a Guitar

You've just decided to want to learn to play guitar? Or is learn them but still use the loan to practice guitar? You should immediately set aside the contents of your wallet to buy a guitar. However, as a potential guitarist, ideally you should have your own guitar. The question then arises, how can we know which is the best guitar for us?
    Yes, buy a guitar does require a special flair. Because the range of price and quality of the guitar is much more diverse than other instruments. Cheapest branded guitars cost about Rp 400 thousand, but a guitar hand-made work of a renowned luthier can reach tens of thousands of dollars! It is also necessary foresight to test / compare the quality of the guitars that we will buy. Therefore, it could be the case, a cheaper guitar even better than the more expensive. If we do not have this foresight, could certainly lose.
    The safest way of course is to enlist the help of friends who are more experienced in playing guitar (or better yet, a guitar teacher) to accompany the guitar you choose the most appropriate for you. Surely this can not always do it. If so, what may make, we must "hunt" alone. For that there are some questions you need to consider.
 
(1) HOW FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE?
    There is a story, a guitar student wants to buy a guitar rather bagusan, but his parents objected. "Ah, just like that guitar just doing must be expensive." It makes the child can be a guitar that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (even though they were able to buy a nicer). Ironically, the children have just bought the latest mobile phone series. The price? Millions of dollars. Situations like this can happen anywhere in the school musical.
    Quality of the guitar is important because it will determine your ability, both in terms of technique or musicality. Of course, we did have to adjust to the needs and abilities of our finances. If we are truly a beginner, it would seem an exaggeration to directly buy a guitar that cost tens of millions of dollars. On the other hand, do not be too stingy too. You certainly do not want to spoil the sensitivity of fingers, ears, and your musicality because of wearing a cheap guitar.
    It is undeniable, at various music stores branded Yamaha guitars still dominate, especially for beginners types produced in Indonesia. Prices range from hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on its type. If you are truly a beginner, it is advisable to choose a guitar of this type. But you should take the type that is slightly above, do not be too down.
    If you are already in advanced, proficient moreover, would have a more serious guitar. Music stores in major cities usually provide the types of guitars this medium. Its brands include Yamaha, Prudencio, Aria, and so on. It cost over two million to five million dollars.
    Well, for those who have been on the more serious, whether it be as an educator, player, serious hobbyists, or collector, they will require a higher level guitar class. From the semi hand made to a truly hand-made. It is this class that price range could reach tens of millions of dollars, even over a hundred million dollars. They are rarely sold in music stores in Indonesia. Most owners of these class guitars purchased abroad or over the internet. Some are bought from the old owner. Usually the teachers can get information about the guitarist who wants to sell or buy. Sometimes, we can also order it through the music store here.
    What are the advantages of these expensive guitars than the guitars for beginners? It's just like the question, what is the advantage of a hi-fi devices are sophisticated and expensive than a mini compo? After all, both for listening to music? Or, what is the advantages of a Jaguar than a deer? After all, both the car and walk?
    One thing is for sure, in terms of physical, guitars for beginners usually use plywood for the body material. While the nicer guitars using wood. This greatly affects the sound quality. You should try and compare yourself to understand it. Any wood guitar will sound better the more frequently when played. While plywood guitar sound is so-so saja.Yang where your choice, depending on the needs and the contents of the bag. You know best.
 
(2) How physical condition?
    Inspect all parts and make sure no parts are loose or off. Shake-shake to find out. If there is no sound nothing, means safe. Check the round head of the guitar strings, functioning or not. See also the soundboard surface conditions or the front and back of the guitar, if there are cracks or scratches.
    Next, check the neck (neck) guitar. Make sure the conditions are straight, not curved. How, lift buttocks guitar to the front of your face. Keep the front side of the guitar level with your eyes. From there, straighten your gaze toward the head of the guitar. If the neck looks curvy, look for another guitar.
 
(3) AS the sound quality?
    Wrong with the neck, setting was the guitar. You can ask the store to help staff tuned. Play all the notes on each fret (thin metal strips on the surface of the neck of the guitar), and in all all the strings. Make sure all produce the right tone, not jarring, or vaguely contains other tones. All notes are ideally produce the same volume when plucked with the same power. There must be no weak notes in volume, while not in the next fret tighter. For checking this one is done ideally friend who understands the guitar, or at least understand the music, especially if you are totally blind music.
    Also make sure none are broken note (buzzing). The sound is generally appear uncomfortable when the strings hit the frets when vibrating. The reason could be because the frets are too high or because the action (string distance to the surface of the neck) is too tight / less tenuous.
   
(4) MATCH WITH YOUR FINGERS / CONVENIENCE?
    Conditions nice guitar, his balance was all, no one discordant tone, then what else? Try playing. If not, try pressing the fret and the notes ring. Do it on the other frets. Do you have to press very hard in order to produce a clean tone? Or just hit the light right?
    The more weight you have to press, the sooner our fingers tired while playing. Obviously we would prefer a guitar that does not have to be pressed too hard. Besides being more convenient, the fingers can move more swiftly. Convenience left finger is determined by the action. About action, it is advisable to choose a guitar that his action is not too tenuous. Therefore, the more tenuous, the greater the force required to press the strings left finger. However, the selection of the level of action is sometimes also depending on taste guitarist. Since some are like the action a little higher to get the strings a more responsive bounce.
    String type can also affect the comfort of the finger. The type of hard-tension strings would require more finger strength to push than normal-tension. About strings, have already been discussed specifically in the previous edition. If you intend to replace the strings, never replace the nylon strings with metal strings. Therefore, the voltage of the metal strings is much larger than nylon strings. Nylon acoustic guitars are not designed to withstand the stress of it.
 
(5) IS COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR TASTE BUDS?
    This is somewhat subjective. But it could be something like this: all of the above questions can be answered properly was, in other words you have found the ideal guitar. Strangely, you can not like it. There is something that causes you less comfortable with this guitar. Do not force. Try another guitar. Unfortunately not if you've bought but never touched. That is why, there is an opinion, it's like looking for a guitar to mate!
    What if we could also find the ideal guitar? Try asking shop staff issued stocks setipe from the warehouse. It often happens, though of the same type and price, two guitars can have very different qualities. We will never know if you do not compare them. When all the stock has been tried and still no good? The first option, find the type that a higher class than that. Surely when the funds exist. If not, you are forced to look to another store to find it again.
    Whatever you're looking for guitar classes, the above requirements apply. Of course, the more expensive types of guitars, growing requirements. In the upscale guitars, the harder and most subjective judgment about the character of the sound is just like in humans. For example, there are a number of characters that are often used: bright-cheerful, graceful-authoritative, heavy-dry, soft-light, and much more. The explanation is hard to describe with words. Just to hear the sound of the guitar directly concerned we could understand it. Which is good? Everything is up to the interests and tastes. Congratulations search for "mate"!