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Times have really changed! When a child plays a guitar today it no longer feels like it weighs like a hundred kilos. Guitars of the millennium are thankfully no longer just one color or one texture. Now kids learn to play not only with an acoustic guitar but with an electric guitar as well. In today’s world kids electric guitars are fun and often quite stylish! They sound very professional and kids often prefer the electrical guitar to the old-fashioned guitar style. Electric guitar lesson are so easily possible today. As a parent, you can choose from a private guitar teacher, (which is the most expensive) or you could send your child to guitar classes allowing him or her to interact with other students. Learning to play electric guitar online is also an option.
A parent may wonder what the difference is between acoustic guitars for kids and electric guitars for kids. The difference is that an electric guitar needs an amplifier but is often easier to play or use for children because the strings on an acoustic guitar can be harder to press for the beginner player. The acoustic guitar does not require an amplifier and has the choice of two types of strings (i.e. steel string or nylon string). It is so nice that the kids of today have much more to choose from!
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I have had a REAL love of the guitar since at least the age of five. Life as a musician has not always been easy. It isn’t always easy to make ends meet and at times it means working part-time at various odd jobs here and there. I am divorced from my kids mother and live with my girlfriend who loves my kids and is a great help but also has two kids of her own to support.
I was looking online for a new guitar stand and gig band and was also looking at discount electric guitars on this certain website. While I was looking at this website I saw some kids electric guitars that were really cute and looked like they would be a perfect match for my daughter! Her birthday is not until October but I figure that these are prices I can not beat and I have a kids electric guitar in mine that I think she will just absolutely love! My ten year old daughter has been begging me for guitar lessons anyway. So I can hardly wait for her birthday to get here. What a great father/daughter activity playing together this will be!
When describing electric guitars for kids what comes to mind is a “Short scale guitar or a ¾ sized guitar ” but that really isn’t the whole story. Some short scale kids electric guitars are longer than others, so it’s important to look at the specific scale length, and whether that’s right for your child. A three quarter sized scale length for a kids guitar can be anything from a 22.2 inch scale length to a 24 inch scale length. The scale length may vary even more for kids acoustic guitars. Scale length is defined as the distance from the bridge of the guitar to the nut. Therefore a kids electric guitar with a short scale length means that the frets on the guitar are closer together, allowing for small hands to reach across more frets. An advantage of using an electric guitar on a short scale length, is that the strings need a lot less tension to be tuned up to pitch, making it so much easier to press chords and notes.
For a child from the ages of about 6 to 10, a short scale guitar with a 22.2 or 22.7 inch scale length will work very well. Of course the size of the ten year old makes a difference. It is possible that for a 10 year old, a 24 inch scale length will be a good fit. Most kids around the age of 12 years old don’t need to think in terms of kids electric guitars anymore. They can begin to look into adult sized guitars and can consider purchasing a guitar with a 24.75 inch to a 25.5 inch scale. As always, best of luck!
As a father of three girls, I have certainly become educated about the opposite sex. I’m not complaining mind you because I think it creates an interesting challenge for me. Actually in some ways I think I have more patience and understanding for my girls than my wife does! I’m sometimes known as the ‘mediator” in the family and try and keep peace in the family not only between all three daughters but my wife and my daughters as well. I wonder how different things would be if I had sons? After it’s all said and done I wouldn’t have it any other way, I really wouldn’t!
Our middle daughter has taken quite a liking to the guitar! I must say, she gets this desire honestly, I too am a great enthusiast of the guitar and have played acoustic and electric guitar for many years! She is more than positive that what she most wants for her birthday is a beginner electric guitar! My wife has concerns about her beginning to play guitar so young, (our daughter will turn ten in August). I assured her that she is old enough and that there are many manufacturers today that make good quality guitars for kids that are well within our price range! Someone has to be the stabilizing force in the family! While I might not have my wife totally convinced, at least she is willing to go online and look at kids electric guitars with me! Wish me luck!
I love it that my son is such a little ham! We have a lot of fun with that and he has been quite entertaining to our friends and family. He seems to really enjoy watching shows like American Idol and is convinced that he too could be on the show and become famous as some of the contestants on the show have. He wants to sing and has already begun serenading us with little ditty’s here and there whether we want to heat them or not! Now he is trying to convince us that what he REALLY needs is an electric guitar! Say what!
My husband is my constant supporter, my comic relief if you will. He just takes it all in stride. He assures me that there are many kids electric guitars out there to choose from and we will find an affordable, good quality and durable kids guitar for our son. Ok, if you say so. Maybe this will be a good outlet for him to focus his energy. He is such a ball of energy and it is important not to stifle his creativity. I guess I’m game!
My husband and I have had a lot of joy watching our son grow up. We both feel that music will be his thing. He LOVES to sing and pretend to play “air” guitar. For my husband and I there was little question of what to get him for his eighth birthday. We decided that a “perfect” gift would be a kids electric guitar! I think my husband and I had just as much fun looking at various kids electric guitars as our son will have playing one in the very near future!
We had difficulty conceiving our son and were SO delighted when we finally got pregnant! Now we don’t want to miss any stage of our son’s life! Don’t get me wrong, parenting isn’t always easy, but we love creating all these wonderful memories! I think it will be loads of fun watching our son “jam” on his childrens electric guitar and singing his little heart out!
As we celebrate our nation’s birthday, we also celebrate the birthday of out eleven year old son. He loves the fact that he is born on the fourth of July and this year is no exception. As we celebrate his birthday before going to see fireworks on our community, we will have a birthday party complete with picnic food, (which he loves!) and chocolate cake with peanut butter icing! What could be better!
What he told us he really wanted for his birthday this year was a kids guitar. I am not surprised as several of his buddies have recently gotten kids electric guitars from their parents and seem to really love them! My wife and I did a lot of research and we found a beginner childrens guitar that we think is well suited for him and we can’t wait to give it to him tomorrow! I think it will be another special Independence Day/Birthday! Happy birthday America!
Whoever said that being a father would be easy? I guess I knew it would be hard but I couldn’t really picture just how hard until I got there. Not only is it difficult financially to support a family of five people but to be on top of all the medical and emotional issues of your children AINT EASY! My wife works full time as do I and she spends hours outside of work helping our middle son, (who has learning disabilities and suffers from A.D.D.) helping him with his homework. Now that it’s summer, I’m glad she has a break! I help out when I can but it’s hard with such a busy schedule.
Our daughter will turn eight on July 20th and more than anything she says that she wants a kids electric guitar! I must say, I really was not expecting this! Even though I too love guitar and have been playing for years, I am no expert when it comes to electric guitars for kids! I will have to do some research on this one. The internet makes it so much easier to find you looking for and so I will begin searching for kids electric guitars. Hopefully I will find something in our price range. Hey, I just take one day at a time as each day brings a new challenge, that’s the only way to look at it for me!
My son was born to be a musician I just know it. The kid is either beating his hands on the kitchen table to some song or is picking up whatever he can find pretending to “jam” on a make believe guitar. This make believe guitar could be a tennis racquet, a broom stick or whatever he can find that could pass for a guitar! As a family we have decided that the only proper gift to get him for his upcoming birthday is an electric guitar. Since he is still just a kiddo we will get him a childrens electric guitar! I know that he will be beyond thrilled!
As a family we will have fun looking at all the kids electric guitars available! I think we have a pretty good idea of what type of kids guitar he really wants so hopefully we will agree on something! We will probably also get him some beginner DVD’s for him to learn some proper technique. At some point we may even find a private instructor for him. We all anxiously await July 22nd when our son/ brother will no longer feel the need to jam on whatever he can find available in our house. Now if we can just tolerate the noise!
My daughter has been saying for several years now that she wants to grow up and play guitar like her uncle Joe, (my brother in law). After several years my husband and I realize that it might be a good idea to make an investment in a childrens electric guitar. Fortunately for our daughter she has a birthday coming up this summer and so we will begin now searching for childrens electric guitars online and in some music stores locally. I just know that come July 16th we will have one happy little girl on our hands!
My husband has said that there are some really cute kids electric guitars that are good quality instruments that are affordable and have good durability. This is good to know because being the frugal one of the family I want to know that our money is well spent. For her to get the chance to play with Uncle Joe one day would be a dream come true. As far as her playing in a band, I may need more time to wrap my mind around that idea. I guess time will tell!