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What guitar did you learn on?
Posted on 12/21/16 at 8:56 am
Posted on 12/21/16 at 8:56 am
I was just thinking about what I got for my kids vs what I learned to play on. I learned on a Yamaha G-50A Classical. Huge neck with strings that felt like they were an inch above the frets. Nylon strings...I was 12. It was essentially like teaching a kid to drive with a dumptruck.
The Yamaha belonged to my dad, and he traded it in for a Fender acoustic which he later traded for a Martin D-15.
What did you guys learn to play on, and what was it like (looking back on it now)?
ETA Pic (not the actual one...but identical)
The Yamaha belonged to my dad, and he traded it in for a Fender acoustic which he later traded for a Martin D-15.
What did you guys learn to play on, and what was it like (looking back on it now)?
ETA Pic (not the actual one...but identical)
This post was edited on 12/21/16 at 9:00 am
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Posted on 12/21/16 at 8:59 am to madmaxvol
A Squier Affinity Strat. I regret not holding onto it.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:10 am to madmaxvol
A really bad one
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:12 am to madmaxvol
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What did you guys learn to play on, and what was it like (looking back on it now)?
haven't "learned" yet.
first guitar i had was a MIM Standard Strat (recently sold it)
also have an Epiphany Les Paul Tribute Plus
and an American Standard Strat
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:23 am to madmaxvol
Les paul and an applause acoustic
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:25 am to madmaxvol
Mine was a Yamaha also but it was a steel string acoustic. I don't know the model. It was pretty serviceable and I used it for a long time. I think I gave it to somebody else who was wanting to learn guitar.
The tradeoff between steel strings and nylon is that on a steel string, the neck is more narrow so that helps with smaller hands but the steel strings are harder to fret cleanly and hurt your fingers until you develop callouses. Either way, it's a tough learning curve at first.
The tradeoff between steel strings and nylon is that on a steel string, the neck is more narrow so that helps with smaller hands but the steel strings are harder to fret cleanly and hurt your fingers until you develop callouses. Either way, it's a tough learning curve at first.
This post was edited on 12/21/16 at 9:28 am
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:36 am to MountainTiger
Alvarez AD60. I still suck but upgraded to a Blueridge BR160.
My son has a first act acoustic which sucks. So I restrung it with classical strings. Amazingly it actually tunes. But not for long.
He will soon (Christmas) get a Squier Strat.
Soon I will be buying my first electric. Looking at an Agile Les Paul copy thanks to someone on this boards recommendation.
My son has a first act acoustic which sucks. So I restrung it with classical strings. Amazingly it actually tunes. But not for long.
He will soon (Christmas) get a Squier Strat.
Soon I will be buying my first electric. Looking at an Agile Les Paul copy thanks to someone on this boards recommendation.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:43 am to madmaxvol
Air
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:44 am to madmaxvol
A black strat-copy "Applause" (Korean made Ovation) that had a piss-poor floating bridge that kinda sorta worked like a FR, only didn't keep in tune. The action was terrible because the neck was twisted like a candy cane.
The wiring harness was garbage and it would feedback something terrible whenever plugged in and volume was up. The tone was SOOOOO bad, it sounded like a cow mooing throughout the lower register- Hence her name, either "Elsie" or just "the cow"
My poor Pop paid 200 bucks for it from Zeigler's...but this was 1986.
The wiring harness was garbage and it would feedback something terrible whenever plugged in and volume was up. The tone was SOOOOO bad, it sounded like a cow mooing throughout the lower register- Hence her name, either "Elsie" or just "the cow"
My poor Pop paid 200 bucks for it from Zeigler's...but this was 1986.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:48 am to madmaxvol
My brothers les Paul at 13, Alvarez acoustic. He showed me how to play open G, I literally could not put them down and still can't , I'm 51. My first guitar was a peavey T15 and a back stage plus amp. Marks music in Denham , that's way back folks.
Ps: open G sounds as good today as it did the first time I played it , lol
Ps: open G sounds as good today as it did the first time I played it , lol
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:48 am to LSU alum wannabe
My Alvarez acoustic is awesome, picked it up at a pawn shop in BR about '04-5 for a song and a dance.
My step-daughter just bought an acoustic fitted with a Strat neck...it isn't a Fender body, but not a Frankenstein either, and it was cheap on Ebay. The action is so low it plays itself.
My step-daughter just bought an acoustic fitted with a Strat neck...it isn't a Fender body, but not a Frankenstein either, and it was cheap on Ebay. The action is so low it plays itself.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 9:57 am to 19
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My Alvarez acoustic is awesome, picked it up at a pawn shop in BR about '04-5 for a song and a dance.
I still kept mine. It is tougher to play than my blue ridge. So I break it out to toughen up my fingers. Like weighed bat. Makes fretting the blue ridge feel like nothing.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 10:03 am to LSU alum wannabe
Yeah, I've played some of them that were just painful to fret, and that's with (wow) almost 20 years worth of calluses. I was amazed when I first picked it up that it was an Alvarez.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 10:31 am to madmaxvol
My first was a 1969 red Stella Harmony. I gave it to a college girlfriend when I upgraded to an Alvarez.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 10:33 am to 19
I've been dicking around with it for 2 years now. Still a total newb really. Index finger has a cut right now as a matter of fact.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 10:35 am to LSU alum wannabe
Yamaha CJ7 I think, one of those acoustics produced in the late 70s.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 10:36 am to madmaxvol
Generic brand classical guitar. We put steel strings on it for a good bit of the time - I left it in Kosovo.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 10:48 am to madmaxvol
The first guitar I had and "played" was a cheap magazine guitar with classical strings. That was around 8 years old. I picked up my moms old V-6 Ventura around 12 or so and taught myself how to actually play. I still have that Ventura and actually had it refurbished a little a few years ago. The reason I quit playing at the younger age was because I was taking lessons and I remember my teacher would just have me play the chords for house of the rising sun for an hour while he played riffed off of it. He was an old hippy burn out.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 10:54 am to madmaxvol
A Lotus acoustic that my paran gave me. He brought that and another guitar to the camp and wrote down the fingering for all the major open chords on a piece of engineering paper for me to learn.
Still the only acoustic I have owned nearly 20 yrs after the fact.
Still the only acoustic I have owned nearly 20 yrs after the fact.
Posted on 12/21/16 at 12:05 pm to madmaxvol
1993 inca silver tele. still have it and play it daily.
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