Kid Guitars
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When my husband gets excited about something he goes all out and I mean all out! He recently told me that after having a heart to heart talk with our young on regarding what he wants most for his birthday. After a thoughtful but very enthusiastic pause, he replied with a REALLY BIG smile that he wanted an electric guitar! My husband said “cool!” and immediately went to work to find the best and fanciest kids electric guitar in town and online! The ever practical part of me said “Wait a minute buster!” And so I began my search for cheap childrens guitars! Now please don’t misunderstand cheap doesn’t necessarily mean low quality.
After a period of time of going back and forth with my husband we finally found a good quality and very inexpensive childrens electric guitar! I am all for supporting my children as long as we live within our means. My husband and I will probably continue to battle over finances but I am glad that in time we are usually able to work things out! At least in this situation everyone is satisfied!
We haven’t had to work too hard to get our kids interested in hobbies. They have tried all kinds of sports, (from baseball to soccer) and musical instruments (from piano to kids drums). Recently our seven year old daughter came home from school and said that she know what she wants to do with her life, she wants to play electric guitar like her idols, the Jonas Brothers. Oh God! Tell me this is just a phase! My husband thinks this is great and assures me that it’s all in fun. He said that he recently saw a childrens guitar that was heart shaped and thinks our daughter might like something like that!
Our little girl is so enthusiastic and her love of guitar is no different. We will take our daughter shopping soon for some beginner electric guitars! Last night we looked at some childrens electric guitars online and bookmarked some sites that we really liked. Our daughter can hardly contain her excitement! Her birthday is next month and that should be plenty of time to pick the best most affordable beginner electric guitar for our rock star wannabe!
I am so glad that my family is healthy and happy. After that the rest is just icing on “the sweet cake of life”. Life is hard and when good things happen it just really seems like a blessing after all! Last week our daughteer celebrated her thirteenth birthday and never was she so excited then when she came downstairs and saw amateur drums waiting for her in the family room! The look of joy on her face was well worth all the money we spent (which actually wasn’t as much as I had anticipated!)
Now she plays and plays and plays. We are happy about this and for now seem to be tolerating the noise as well as can be expected. Our younger son seems to be getting quite a kick watching his older sister play and now is starting to hint that he wants to play electric guitar. He assures me that we can find some cheap electric guitars online as his friend Billy, (who practically lives at our house) got a really cool kids electric guitar for Christmas. We may have to mull this one over for a little while. Our younger son’s birthday isn’t until June so we do have some time to save money and look around. With five kids one does have to plan. Anyway, we are blessed to keep putting another sweet layer of icing on our cake!
Last month we bought our son a kids electric guitar. He couldn’t be happier than a pig in mud! As I mentioned in an earlier post, all of our children love music and do play instruments, our daughter plays the piano and the flute and our older son plays the drums but now says that he too wants to play guitar but not electric guitar. He wants to play acoustic guitar like his buddy Tad. So I guess now we will go guitar shopping yet again.
I think we will look at some discount acoustic guitars as I saw some online and they seem to be quite affordable and very good quality. Our oldest son has been a really good student and will be graduating high school this year. He will be going off to college next year and we want to reward him. He and Tad hope to go to the same local college and play amateur guitar together in a trio with another friend of their’s. I know this will make our son so happy and he will learn to play guitar quickly as he appears to really have some musical ability. This is really very exciting for the whole family!
It is sometimes quite fascinating to look at how sound is created and maintained in a guitar. In a plugged-in electric guitar instrument, sound is created when the strings are strummed or plucked and the vibration from the movement is picked up by a magnetic device called the pick-up. The sound is amplified with the use of an amplifier which is connected to the guitar via a guitar cable. Electric guitars have two or three pick-ups that come with a pick-up switch that can be controlled to determine which pickup is active and many discount electric guitars are purchased today for the eager beginner. The sound can be further manipulated and modified by turning the volume and tone dials (or knobs) of the guitar, the tuning knobs, as well as knobs of the amplifier. Most electric guitars have three knobs or dials for controlling the volume, treble and bass tones which are produced by the built-in electronics of the guitar
Basically, a pickup is made of a long copper wire that is wound or coiled around one or more magnets. When electricity passes through the copper wire, the magnet/s in the middle of the coil detects the movement or vibrations of the metal strings. Electrical impulses travel through the wire inside the pickup due to these vibrations, and when attached to the amplifier, the impulses create the sound heard from the amplifier. Today, modern single coil pickups produce less noise than their early counterparts. The tremolo bar allows the player to quickly and easily alter the pitch of the strings, lowering or making the sound higher as the strings are being played. It is usually placed just below the saddle of the guitar. The tuners are found at the headstock of the guitar and are used to tighten and loosen the strings. The standard tuning for electric guitar is EBGDAE but other types of tuning such as Drop-D are used depending on the preference of the guitarist and the kind of music played.
My daughter has been wanting to play the drums like her older brother and sneaks in his room to play them any chance she gets. This of course doesn’t always meet with approval from her brother. Our daughter says that we have to get her a drum set like her brother’s for her upcoming sixth birthday. I think we will get her some childrens drums instead of an adult sized drum set. I know this will make someone very happy as she has a birthday coming up on the 12th of April.
Her very gracious brother may even be willing to give his sister a few pointers. I think we can get some children’s DVD’s to help with some instruction. When I was my daughter’s age I fell in love with the guitar and have pretty much been playing both acoustic and electric guitar ever since so I do understand her passion! I am looking forward to April 12th just as much as she is!
My kids just LOVE their aunt Betty who has spoiled them rotten ever since they were babies. Aunt Betty spoiled me too but her doting has increased incrementally since I was a little girl. This makes me happy but I just hope that they don’t develop any sort of sense of self entitlement. Aunt Betty knows that our middle son Adam has a birthday coming up next month. Adam of course was not a bit shy to inform his beloved aunt Betty that he wants a really cool electric guitar for his birthday just like his friend Eddie has! Aunt Betty is more than pleased to do this but doesn’t have a clue where to get this guitar.
My husband says that because Adam is only eight we really need to get him a childrens guitar. My husband says that he has been spending his lunch breaks researching childrens guitars online. He says that he has bookmarked some sites for me to look at and will order one that Aunt Betty can get for Adam’s birthday. I think Adam will be really pleased, (especially since the guitar will have come from Aunt Betty). I must admit that it is quite fun to live vicariously through my children!
I have never seen a kid more happy in my life to receive a guitar as a gift. We got him a kids electric guitar for his birthday last month after months of cajoling from him claiming that this would be the perfect gift. We had given him the good news last month that we would get him an electric guitar for his birthday and told him that he could help pick it out. I must admit that it was fun looking at all the different kinds of kids electric guitars. Very surprisingly we found one that we all agreed on and that doesn’t usually happen!
So now he plays and plays and plays. I am glad about this except that the noise can be a bit much at times. We just recently got a ¾ guitar case so we can protect this precious guitar. There also seem to be quite an array of guitar cases for kids. We are glad to see our son so happy and know that he will feel even more a part of the family as his brother plays the drums and his sister plays the piano and the flute. Who knows, maybe we will even start our own family band!
My mother is such a wonderful grandmother and I love and at times even envy all of the attention she has given her many grandkids. She is aware that her grandson Tad, (my oldest and quite musically ambitious son) wants a new electric guitar in the worst way. We got Tad a kids electric guitar when he was just seven years old and now at fifteen he has become very eager to reach “Rock God Status”. Tad will be sixteen in April and I just told my Mom what he most wants for his birthday. She wasn’t surprised but also can’t always quite comprehend what Tad loves so much about those crazy guitars anyway.
However Mom is a real trooper and whatever makes her grandchildren happy, will ultimately make her happy as well. I just wish that she had spoiled me the way she spoils my kids! Oh well, seeing my family happy is really the most important thing to me now. I also want to get Tad a new guitar case and gig bag. I think he will be very pleased. I already know what guitar he wants so now it’s just a matter of ordering it and waiting for it to arrive. I just hope that when he becomes rich and famous one day he won’t forget his “Dear old Dad”
My five year old wants to be a rocker in the worst way! It all started several months ago when she spent time with her aunt and uncle while my wife and I were away on a business trip. Alana just loves her older cousin Jake who is a bass guitarist in a local band. Her aunt, my sister says that Alana followed him around and finally Jake relented allowing his young cousin to play his “precious” guitar while he supervised making sure she didn’t touch something she wasn’t supposed to. That did it, Alana was sold. She says that all she wants for her sixth birthday is a new electric guitar, “Ok no problem” I told her.
As a former musician myself I understand the allure playing an instrument can have at a young age. I played drums for years in a very popular band in our area and am still very close with some of my old bandmates today. I think that it would be totally cute to get Alana a childrens electric guitar for her sixth birthday. I think I can convince my wife that this would be a good plan. I think it’s great and I know I will have a very happy daughter on my hands quite soon!