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The Best Acoustic Guitars Under 450 Dollars – 2022

April 16, 2022 by Klaus Crow

Most entry level guitar players start off with a decent low budget acoustic guitar, but there are also beginners and intermediates who might have a few extra bucks to spend and are aiming for better sound and quality. It could also be that you want to upgrade and move on to your next guitar and keep your first guitar for travel or backup.

A good quality guitar motivates and inspires to practice and play. Whenever I walk into the living room and my guitar catches my eye, there’s no way back, I just got to play it. That’s what guitars can do. You want a guitar that moves you.

Today we’re going to look at some of the best acoustic guitars under 450 dollars for 2022. This is a nice affordable price range where good things are happening and guitars really step up. These 8 beautiful designs are all impressive in their own unique way and great value for money.

Enjoy!

1 – Seagull S6

Seagull is a Canadian guitar company and sub-brand of Godin Guitars. It’s most popular model is the S6. The guitar produces a warm to bright range sound. Full, crisp, warm and dynamic. A great feature is the narrow headstock that will keep the guitar in tune at all times. The Seagull S6 is a well-manufactured, smooth-playing instrument with a lovely tone.

Top: Select Pressure Tested Solid Cedar
Back and sides: Canadian Wild Cherry
Fretboard Material: Rosewood
Neck: Silver Leaf Maple Integrated Set Neck
Finish: Semi-Gloss Custom Polished Finish
More info, Prices and Reviews for the Seagull S6

2 – Big Baby Taylor

Taylor is a leading guitar manufacturer that produces high quality guitars. The Big Baby Taylor is the biggest of their Travel/Small body guitar series. Bigger than the Baby Taylor and the GS Mini, it’s almost a full size guitar with its 15/16-size dreadnought.

Still, it does have the scale length (25 1/2 inch) of a full-size guitar which makes it look and feel like a grownup guitar, only easier to manage because of it’s smaller and slimmer body. Like the Baby Taylor, the Big Baby has an arched back that provides strength and contributes to its big tonal output. A great sound, awesome playability, a high quality guitar brand and yet affordable.

Size: 15/16-size Dreadnought
Top: Sitka Spruce
Back and sides: Layered Sapele.
Fretboard Material: Ebony
Bracing: Classic X Bracing
Scale Length: 25-1/2″
Tuners: Die-Cast Chrome
Pickguard: Tortoise
Bridge: Rosewood
Top Finish: Varnish
More info, Prices and Reviews for the Big Baby Taylor

What Scales to Play over a Song in a Major Key

By Klaus Crow 11 Comments

March 29, 2021 by Klaus Crow

There are so many songs and so many scales. So what scales do you need to solo and improvise over a song in a major key? And what chords can you find in a major key?

First, when a song is in a major key, it means it’s based on a major scale. The song usually conveys a bright, happy or cheerful mood. There are seven chords that you can derive from that major scale. We’ll look into that in a few seconds.

To be able to improvise over a major key you also need a major type scale. The two most commonly used scales are the major scale and the major pentatonic scale.
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Best Singing Lessons for Beginners 2023

By Klaus Crow 7 Comments

November 4, 2023 by Klaus Crow

top 4 best singing lessons for musicians

Most musicians love to sing along to the songs they play on their guitar or any other instrument. Some guitar players focus entirely and solely on their instrument and that’s perfect, but there’s also the breed who loves to sing and play their hearts out. Even if you’re not, you definitely want to read on.

Most of us are not naturally born singers, and even if you are, you can always use some help to improve your singing voice and work to become a better singer / guitar player.

A lot of musicians just think they don’t have what it takes and they can’t do anything about it. They just throw in the towels and accept they aren’t really the singer type.

But that’s where they are wrong, you can definitely work to become a better singer, a good singer, and some even become great singers. But good is good enough.

How great is it to play your instrument and sing to your songs with confidence. Singing along with your instrument adds an extra dimension to the experience. You now have two instruments (your voice is also an instrument) that complement each other.

Learning to sing also helps you improve your playing, because playing guitar is all about listening and aural skills and that’s what you develop with singing lessons.

The most common problems people face are “problems with pitch”, “the crack in the voice” when going from chest voice to head voice, “singing higher notes” and “losing the voice” due to using of the voice in the wrong way. Most people also don’t know there are simple and easy ways to start improving the voice in a real short amount of time.

Top 20 Easy Guitar Fingerpicking Songs For Beginners

By Klaus Crow 17 Comments

March 7, 2022 by Klaus Crow

top 20 easy guitar fingerpicking songs for beginners

Fingerpicking also referred to as fingerstyle, is one of the many guitar techniques that is part of the complete guitar skill set and incredibly fun to learn.

Fingerpicking is a technique where you pluck the strings directly with the fingertips, as apposed to strumming where you move your fingers in a sweeping action across the strings to play some nice and easy guitar songs in a more rhythmic fashion.

Fingerpicking Basics

There are some basic fingerpicking principles for how to place the fingerpicking hand. The traditional way to approach the strings is as follows:

Use the thumb for the Low E, A and D string (6th, 5th and 4th string)
Index finger for the G string (3rd string)
Middle finger for the B string (2nd string)
Ring finger for the high E string (1st string)

See image below:

how and where to place the fingerpicking hand

Make sure your fingers are curved when you place your fingers onto the strings. When you pluck the strings your thumb goes downwards and the fingers are going in an upwards movement. Now you are ready to practice some fingerpicking patterns.

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