Kid Guitars
Archive for November 24th, 2009
When they are just starting out, many kids have a hard time focusing on the actions of two hands at once. This ability to multitask effectively will come with practice; in the beginning, it’s best to simply remind kids not to stop strumming. It’s perfectly understandable that most of a child’s attention will be focused on fingering the fretboard. After all, the right hand just has to strum along, right?
In fact, the role of the right hand is slightly more complicated than that and certainly more important than it would seem. In addition to strumming, the right hand must operate as a sort of metronome, keeping time with each upward and downward strum of the strings. If this motion stops for any length of time during the course of a chord change, all timing with kids electric guitars will be thrown out of whack.
The acoustic guitar is a popular instrument in our family. Both of my parents played and performed in our area. I have played off and on throughout the years and now both my son and daughter are expressing an interest to play. We are very delighted but also hope that they don’t have to play. With the holidays literally just around the corner we are really giving serious consideration to purchasing some quality childrens acoustic guitars!
We have some very good instructors in our family who have a lot of experience and will provide acoustic guitar lessons. We also know of some really good learn to play guitar books and DVD’s. It is all very exciting and I believe the love of guitar has actually brought our family closer together. I think it will be a fine Christmas!