Kid Guitars
Kids Guitar Information
Posts Tagged ‘amateur guitar’
One of my favorite things to do is attend concerts and musical performances locally. While many people only attend big ticket events with ‘A list bands’, I enjoy the intimacy of smaller venues with other lesser known artists. Although the stage show of a big name bands are amazing, there is something special about witnessing lesser known musicians.
While many performers insist that they are amateur guitar players or musicians, they often display an impressive musical prowess. Especially with the litany of music available today, fame is not necessarily indicative of a performer’s skill or potential. Many musicians get started as children and guitars for kids are very affordable for the young performer. I love to watch a performer grow and that doesn’t always mean into the bright but ‘fleeting’ lights of fame. Some of the best songs never make it to the radio!
add comment | 0 Comments
My loving mother wants to spoil her grandchildren and she knows her youngest grandaughter has a special birthday coming up, (after all it’s not every day that a girl gets to face a new decade and turn ten years old!) My mother says that more than anything she wants to get something that her granddaughter really wants for her birthday. Since my father died three years ago her focus has been even more on the expected task of “spoiling the grandchildren”. We told her the other day that what our daughter wants the very most of all is a ‘really cool’ beginner electric guitar! Her initial reaction was, “I’m not going to get a crazy guitar for any granddaughter that isn’t very feminine.” However when I spoke to her today she says that if we pick out the guitar we think our daughter will like, then he will gladly pay for it!
Now my husband and I have the fortunate task of picking out the best kids electric guitar we can find. Since our older son has also played amateur guitar he has already given us some suggestions. I think this will be fun and as a family we can make this a project that we work on together. If only we could all be turning ten years old again. Yes it does appear to be true that youth is wasted on the youth! I guess c’est la vie!
Finding Your Passion Makes Life’s Journey A Little Easier!!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
posted by Guitar Family Man 1:02 AM
My very dear son will turn fifteen in October and I want to get him what he wants the very most, a beginner electric guitar! He has shown some musical ability from an early age and we supported him when he wanted to play the drums at the age of seven. We bought him a kids drum set and he literally beat the thing to death!! Now I want to support his love of guitar and begin looking at amateur guitars.
Instead of surprising my son, I will take him with me to pick out the amateur guitar he really wants! He is looking forward to this and it may take several outings to find the beginner guitar that we want the most. My goal is to help my kids find their passion because life is hard enough but the journey is made easier if you can do things you genuinely enjoy along the way!
My nephew clearly has musical talent. This has been obvious for many years now. From singing to any instrument he has attempted to learn, (i.e. piano, violin) he has excelled without much difficulty. For the past three years he has been ‘dying’ to get his hands on his own electric guitar. He has borrowed guitars form friends including a hand me down from me but the boy really needs his own beginner electric guitar!! I love his parents dearly but they don’t seem to understand the importance of investing money in an amateur guitar because the kid is so talented and his love of guitar is not just a ‘passing phase’!
As an uncle I must not “overstep my bounds” but my nephew and I are so close that I really feel like a big brother to him! If I speak with my brother I know he’ll back me if I buy my nephew a beginner guitar for his birthday in November. You might even say it’s a combined birthday/Christmas present. I want nothing more than the very best for my nephew and hope that he can be the person he was truly meant to be! I think playing guitar might help him be able to express himself in a way he never has before. We’ll see!
It seems as though every time I turn around we have another guitar player in the family. My husband, my father –in-law, my brother all have been bitten by the bug. There’s no escape! Now my ten year old son wants to get into the act. My first response was, “We don’t need any more crazy guitars in this family!” You have to understand that I truly say this in jest! I love my family to death and we are all very close it’s just at times I feel competitive with the guitar for their attention!
I met my husband as a teenager and at that time he was the lead singer along with my brother as the bass guitar player in a very popular band in our town. I thought he was next to God and I was never so happy when we first began dating. After we got married the band started to fizzle out but he continued to play here and there with my brother and his father at local events, coffee houses, churches, etc. They still play today and I do love to see their joy! (as long as they don’t forget about us!!)We are happy to purchase an amateur guitar for our son and hope that he will get as much joy out of it as his father, uncle and grandfather seem to. Time will tell!
My husband thinks that my son shows great aptitude to play guitar. Ever since my husband has been giving our son guitar lessons , he really sees great musical ability in our son. My husband has been busy pricing beginner electric guitars. This will come as quite a surprise and a rather special gift for our son’s upcoming fifteenth birthday. Yesterday at work I began a search online for fun. I think I may have found a beginner electric guitar that our son will like that is even more in our price range then what my husband has been able to find.
I tend to be the frugal one in the family and if I can find a good product for a better price I will. If our son wants to learn to play amateur guitar then I’m all for it just as long as we stay in our price range. I’m glad that this has been such a bonding experience between father and son and will more than likely continue to be throughout there lives!
Our son has always been the adventuresome type. He likes to walk just a little bit on the wild side but not far enough that he goes over the top or gets in trouble. For the most part he is a very good boy! He is VERY VERY funny and seems to be able to make himself the center of attention quite a bit. He really has this way of making me laugh to the point where if he is going to get in trouble he manages to get out of it by watching me break into a smile or giggle because I just can’t keep a straight face. This strategy however does not work with his father. I guess you could say that his dad is more of the disciplinarian and I am a bit of an old ‘softie’
Our son will turn fourteen just before school begins in September. He is obsessed with the rock stars of old, (even before my time), like Jimi Hendrix! He says he believes that a “Rock God” lives and breathes within him and he must let him out for some air! So he is seriously asking us to get him an amateur guitar for his birthday. He wants an electric guitar similar to a friend of his with the hopes that they can begin to put together a band! He has such stage presence that he might just be very good at this! My more pessimistic husband says, “I’m not buying no crazy guitar for his birthday!” I am trying to get him to lighten up and realize that this really may just be a passing phase and the more we tell him no the more he may push to do it anyway. It will take some time but I think I can work on my husband. Believe me, there’s never a dull moment in our house. I guess our lives would be pretty dull without the current rollercoaster on which we ride!
Some people choose to never develop a deep understanding of the acoustic guitar. That doesn’t mean that a person can’t have fun by just being an amateur guitar player by learning a few chords and practicing the technique of strumming. Fortunately, there are several styles of amateur guitars that a beginner player has to choose from. There are also a variety of guitar styles that come under the heading of “acoustic guitar”. There is Celtic guitar music that grew out of the folk guitar boom in the nineteen sixties. So, as well as folk music, there is the classical guitar which is classical music played on the guitar. Then there is Flamenco, the traditional music of the Gypsies of Spain, and the Bossa Nova music of twentieth century Brazil. There are lots of free guitar lessons on the internet and all basic lessons apply to the acoustic guitar. All acoustic guitar players will learn about chord families, strumming techniques, picking strokes, tuning your guitar and how to change the strings. It is very important to get your guitar playing posture correct. Your posture governs how you look and feel when you are playing.
Even though you want to learn for free, many people who have gone through the experience of teaching themselves say that taking several months of guitar lessons at the beginning is much better than struggling with the basics by yourself. If you are looking for free acoustic guitar lessons on the internet, Google is the place to start. Just do a search for free guitar lessons, or free guitar lessons with the name of your favorite music inserted somewhere. Google books has all the good books on learning acoustic guitar, and many of them have extensive previews. Your next stop should be Google video or YouTube for free video guitar lessons. As you go through the free acoustic guitar lessons on the internet, please remember to keep it simple. It can be tempting to get distracted by some interesting guitar lesson video that is outside your main area of interest, but as you are still learning, it is best to stick to the basics for now. You’ll be happy you did later.
My daughter is a great kid and we have loved being her parents despite all the difficulties “parenthood” can bring. You see our daughter has had a lot of challenges and difficulties that have at times have lead her down a rocky road. She has dealt with learning disabilities in both math and reading requiring special accommodations at school and a lot of tutoring. At the age of eight she was diagnosed with ADHD and we have spent A LOT of time with therapists and behavior specialists to try and give her structure and teach her behavior modification. It has been very trying but as parents we delight in her growth and progress and because of all of the struggles, her progress means that much more to us!
When our daughter was eight years old we bought her a kids electric guitar at the recommendation of one of her trusted therapists who encouraged us to have her learn to play an instrument. It was a wonderful suggestion as it not only taught her a skill but also helped to teach her the values of patience and the feeling of satisfaction of having learned to play a new song! Now as she enters the pre-teens, she is asking us for an amateur guitar, since she has outgrown the 31 inch guitar we bought her five years ago. I think it is a very valid request and we will look for a very good quality beginner guitar. We are in it for the LONG haul and no matter what we will do whatever it takes to enhance the quality of her life and therefore the quality of our family’s life. God bless!
My kids have a good life and even though money is tight we make the most of it. My daughter just completed her first year in college and I do what I can to help her out financially. She wants to go to graduate school to become a psychologist and I know she will be very good at this! My youngest son brightens up the whole house with his energy and his smile and is most content playing with his army figures in the sandbox outside! I should be so lucky! My middle son, Steve has struggled to find himself at times, I guess you could call it the “middle child syndrome”. He likes to hang out with his friends and play guitar. He has borrowed his friend’s guitars and did buy himself a used amateur guitar with his own paper route money that lasted maybe two years at best.
As Steve approaches his fifteenth birthday I have decided to bite the bullet and get him a beginner electric guitar. I think it is a good investment since he loves it so much and obviously will get a lot of use out of it. Even as I search for cheap electric guitars online I am surprised at the good quality and affordable guitars I am seeing! I have bookmarked a couple of sites for my son to look at. It’s really good to see Steve find a niche for himself.