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How to Choose the Right Strings for Your Acoustic Guitar

Choosing the right type of strings for your acoustic guitar can almost make or break the sound and playability of your guitar. It’s important that you select the right type of string, but with so many options, it can be hard to know what type of strings to get for your guitar.

Here are some important things to keep in mind that can help you with selecting strings for your guitar. For now, we’ll just look at choosing steel strings for the acoustic guitar. I’ll also give some recommendations of specific types of strings to try out.

What Type Of Acoustic Guitar Do You Have?

The body style of your acoustic guitar should play a role in what type of strings you choose. The most popular body styles are dreadnought and [...]

Acoustic Guitar Tuner Reviews: Choosing the Best Guitar Tuner

If you are a guitarist, it’s a given that owning a guitar tuner can be quite handy, especially if you are just buying your first guitar. Did you know though that guitar tuners can range anywhere from $10 to $300 and upwards? You would almost think that any guitar tuner is the same, but apparently not!

Fortunately for the average guitar player (that’s you and me), we don’t need to come even close to spending that much. We still have a lot of options.

My Guitar Tuner Recommendations

Korg CA-30 Chromatic Tuner ($19.99)

Key Features

+ Highly sensitive internal mic

+ Tunes chromatically

+ Additional quarter inch input

If you need an acoustic guitar tuner, a highly sensitive mic is crucial so the tuner can pick up the string you are tuning with accuracy. Some tuners [...]

Best Guitar Lessons: Review of Online Guitar Lessons

I wanted to take time to review some online guitar lessons. It’s quite convenient to be able to receive professional guitar lessons online from right at home, especially, if the techniques and skills taught in the online guitar lessons is comparable to that of a private guitar lesson. Not to mention, you also save a ton of money doing online guitar lessons! But, it can be hard to find a good beginner guitar lesson online. If you want to take your guitar playing to the next level, but don’t know how, then check out these online guitar lessons for [...]

Buying Your First Acoustic Guitar

Buying your first acoustic guitar can seem kind of overwhelming. When you start looking you quickly realize that there are so many options to choose from, all of which have varying prices. It can be hard to know what the best deal is. Obviously, if you are just starting out on guitar, you don’t want to drop a ton of money, but you also don’t want to end up with an instrument that is bound to break because it is such poor quality. But rest assured, this doesn’t have to be as daunting as you might think! Here are some things to consider when buying your first acoustic guitar. [...]