Common Beginner Guitar Questions | Miami Guitar Lessons
Hello! This is Dyce Kimura. I am a guitar teacher, giving guitar lessons in Miami and also on Skype. I’m doing this video blog today just to talk about some common questions that I get asked every day on the phone from prospective students that want to come in and get guitar lessons. The best Miami guitar lessons. I thought I'd just do a video to just address some common questions in case any of these pertain to you. So I typed up a few of these common questions. I'm going to read off one of them. Here's the first one; do I have to have my own guitar? The best Miami guitar lessons. Well, to take lessons, I guess you don't have to have your own guitar you're welcome to borrow one of mine; but I think it should be obvious to you that if you're going to actually play the guitar and practice you're going to want to buy your own guitar or borrow a guitar or have someone give you a guitar if you intend to get good at it because obviously you don't want to just play the guitar at your teachers studio you want to be able to play the guitar at your home, in front of your friends, with your band, with your loved ones, in your quiet time. So do I have to have my own guitar? The best Miami guitar lessons. No, you don't have to have your own guitar. Do I suggest you have a guitar to play at home? Yes I do, because then you can practice it and you can develop your own ideas and then when you work with your teacher you just check in with your teacher as opposed to every time you interact with your teacher it's like you haven't touched your guitar since the last lesson. So hopefully that makes sense. The best Miami guitar lessons.
Next question; which is better, acoustic or electric guitar? Often people will say which is better, the normal guitar or the electric guitar? And usually when people say the normal guitar they mean the acoustic guitar. I just want to point out that the electric guitar is not an abnormal guitar, so it's not like there is normal and abnormal like acoustic and electric. The best Miami guitar lessons. And also some people say that the acoustic guitar is the wooden guitar; I also want to point out that both the electric and the acoustic are all made of wood. So they are both wooden guitars and they are both normal. So getting down to this question which is better, the acoustic or electric guitar? Neither is better; they are both amazing. The best Miami guitar lessons. Which is better for a beginner? I would say for most beginners the easier one to start on is the electric guitar. And by the way, that's kind of our culture; a lot of people think that the acoustic is better or easier to start on. The best Miami guitar lessons. I am going to disagree with that conventional theme that a lot of non-guitars or even parents have. And the reason why is simply because it's easier; the electric guitar has a thinner neck, it's easier to wrap your hands around, the strings are lighter and it's easier to play. The best Miami guitar lessons. A lot of people have no idea how hard it is to actually play the guitar in terms of pushing the chords with the left hand. They don't realize until they are all up in their first lesson they are like, "oh my goodness this thing is really challenging.” The best Miami guitar lessons. And anything and everything that you can do to make it easier on yourself I think you should do. I mean, let's face it, learning how to play music is hard enough but to have a physical challenge of having a cumbersome guitar that is not making the sounds quickly and easily and pleasantly, that in itself is a huge challenge as well.
The best Miami guitar lessons. I've been able to witness a lot of people benefit tremendously by just starting on electric, it's a slimmer neck -- I know I'm holding acoustic right now ironically, but I'm talking about electric, it's a slimmer neck and it's easier. I will give you a good analogy for any of you baby boomers out there if you've ever typed on an old fashion typewriter (not the electronic ones) but the actually old-fashioned and you have to actually dig the key in and push the key in to make the key punch the paper and the ink stamps the paper and that's how you type; it’s very loud and forceful and cumbersome -- that’s like playing an acoustic guitar. The best Miami guitar lessons. the cool thing is when you just plug it in, when you add electricity you can type so much easier; as a matter of fact, I'm typing with my Mac and then I have a Bluetooth Apple keyboard and my fingers just fly on the keys, it's just amazing and it's even auto corrects -- that's great. The best Miami guitar lessons. Imagine that analogy is 100% true but with guitar. So there is kind of an old conventional thinking -- even a backwards thinking that if you plug it in