Archive for the ‘Guitars’ Category
People just starting out in music and especially playing guitar face many challenging decisions before they even start to play. The question of what guitar should be their first guitar always comes to the top of the pile?To make the decision a little easier there are cheap electric guitars and cheap bass guitars. Even better than that are electric guitar packages, bass guitar packages, and acoustic guitar packages. Guitar packages incorporate everything you would need to start playing guitar, and the contents of these packages very well might answer other questions you might have, like what else so I need.
Because the price of these guitar packages are so cheap it makes it possible to own multiple electric guitar packages or bass guitar packages.
The lead singers and guys who play the electric guitars in bands seem to get all the attention, while the people playing the bass guitars seem to be invisible.I started playing bass guitar back in the mid 1960′s. I have purchase many styles of bass guitar packages through the years because I tend to single out the bass guitar before any other instrument in most bands. I have found that there are a lot of people out there that don’t even know what the difference is between electric guitars and bass guitars.
There were some bands in the early days of rock that let the bass come to front, it was like having a secret weapon. I owe my love to bass guitars to bands like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Blood Sweat and Tears and a studio band named the Funk Brothers.
Most people new to the guitar world opt to purchase electric guitars without even thinking about acoustic guitars. I guess in the world of rock it is more glamorous to them to own electrics rather than acoustic guitars.You Don’t Know What You Need Until You Don’t Have It
The title of this blog pertains to everyone I’m sure. Have you ever purchased something only to find out that you should have purchased something else to enhance that original purchase?This applies to the purchase of electric guitars and bass guitars, especially if you are new to the world of music. When you get your purchase home and take it out of the box you realize you need a case to store it in, or a stand to place it on when you are not playing it. How about that guitar amplifier or bass amplifier, did you know enough to purchase that at the same time?
Guitar packages come in electric guitar packages, bass guitar packages, and acoustic guitar packages, and are the solution to your problems. These guitar packs come with everything that you need, they even include things you would not have thought of, like guitar tuners and guitar polish.
I have played bass guitar since the mid 1060′s. I had purchased my first of what was to be many bass guitar packages when I was sixteen years old. I learned how to play by taking lessons at my local music store. From my teacher I learned the basics like playing scales till your fingers bled, and I even learned some songs,
If you play electric guitars, or bass guitars, or even acoustic guitars and you’re like me you dread the time when you have to change a string. Depending on the last time that you changed your guitar strings they all might need changing.
Expensive electric guitars as well as cheap electric guitars and cheap bass guitars all share the same weaknesses, they all need maintenance from time to time. What better time to give your guitar an overhaul than when you need to change the strings.
First thing is to check the neck with a straight edge to see if the truss rod needs adjusting. After you have done this and replaced the strings you might want to check your guitar for intonation. You check for this by tuning the open string then checking to see if the same note is present at the 12th fret, if they are not you need to loosen the string and raise or lower the bridge depending upon which way it is out then tune your string again. Checking all these things will keep your electric guitar in perfect working order, and who knows it might even improve your sound.
If you want to learn how to play electric guitars or bass guitars it helps if you have an idol. Even when it comes to purchasing the bass guitar packages and electric guitar packages you want to play you can use the influence from someone that you admire.Whether it was coincidence or influence from The Beatles, the early days of rock found the hollow body or semi-acoustic electric guitars used widely. At some point after the use of the stratocaster style electric guitar kind of took over as being the most popular.
For me I am partial to the j-bass and p-bass style, and of course the bass guitar that Paul McCartney made famous the vintage violin bass guitar. I found that having these different style bass guitars, and playing them both personally and on stage, that your sound is broadened by the contrasting sounds.
I chose these bass guitars because of my idols Paul McCartney as stated before, Jim Fielder of Blood Sweet and Tears, and James Jamerson of the Funk Brothers who were the body and soul of the Motown sound of the 1960′s.
Skiffle is the name given to music in the early twentieth century. It was mix of many kinds of music like country, jazz, folk, and blues. What made it different was that it was played with home made instruments.While it started in the United States it found its way to the UK in the 1940′s, and it’s a good thing it did. This music was the early influence of the most innovative and successful electric guitar packages ever to be assembled, The Beatles, So I guess you could say if it wasn’t for Skiffle music there wouldn’t be the rock and roll that was to follow.
While The Beatles honored us with the sounds from there electric guitars and bass guitars it was Skiffle music that implanted the rock and roll seed.
When it comes to electric guitars and bass guitars everybody’s a critic, especially on the Internet. Everyone wants to tell you that the cheap electric guitars that you are looking at are no good, when the opposite is actually true.
New York Pro Guitars and Stadium Guitars are what you would call cheap electric guitars. What makes them cheap is the fact that they don’t cost a lot, and they are not made by one of the high dollar guitar manufacturers. While this may be true the word cheap only applies to the fact that they don’t cost a lot. Many people have tried these electric guitars and found they are really quite well made. There finish equals that of a high dollar guitar, and if it;s an exact duplicate that you are looking for there are some people who purchased these guitars and replaced the electronics with that of a Fender and for a fraction of the cost have a high quality electric guitar.
The first thirty years of rock were the best in my opinion, and I think in most of yours. The early years there was a lot of use of semi-hollow electric guitars, like the Memphis Jazz made by Glen Burton Guitars.
Many of the bands had a distinctive sound, a sound that was identifiable just to them. The Beatles were at the top of the list, mot only were they first when it came to their electric guitars and bass guitar sound they were one of the first with outstanding vocal harmonies not heard since the late fifties with The Everly Brothers. Another distinctive band was Pink Floyd. Their electric guitar sound was and still is like no other, it’s like they were dropped off from another planet.