Guitar help? : )?

i got my first guitar (a washburn BT-2) from a friend who it was his first guitar and he didnt use it anymore. Ask your friends if they know anybody who has a great guitar that they are giving away or selling for a low price. If yes, then go try it out and feel it, hear the sound, check for damage...if no, then try a music store (you can always go to the store first anyway, and i got my ibanez from a very small store) but at the music store if you see a good guitar, ask to play it and even tho its a store, check for damages. if you like it, ask for the price. Find out info about the guitar too. Good Luck

My husband has played guitar for 25 years + He says to buy a Les Paul, No copies either.

Go to Guitar Center. Thats where I got my first guitar. You can go and test the guitar and play around with diff kinds of guitars and see what you want.. Check it out

Don't you have a Music Store in your city? Sam Ash or Guitar Center would be the place to go. You can try them out and see what appeals to you.

Try a baby Taylor. They're small, so they're easy to carry around, but they have the sound of a full guitar. If that doesn't suit you or you just don't know what to look for in a guitar, go to www.amillionguitars.com and read the article. It tells you exactly what to look for in a guitar. Hope that helps!! Good luck with music!!

Thanks to your Mom, don't ever buy a guitar off of E-bay, they had one on there last month for a penny, can you imagine what that sounded like !!!! Get a Yamaha acoustic electric, I play classical guitar and when I went to buy a new one I started to fool around with this Yamaha and I loved it, it sounded good acousticly just as it did when pluged into an amp, and it was only $250.00 and the clerk gave me a deal and reduced the price, this was at the Guitar Center, they will always give you a deal, just ask. If you want an idea about the sound go on youtube and listen to this girl playing a black guitar sitting on the floor in what looks like her bedroom, playing Green Days, Boulevard of Dreams, just type in the song name and then scan until you see her, and the Yamaha sounds like that. Make sure that you play them all, I tell everyone this, as all guitars have a different feel, sound, and action. That's one of the things that I like about the Center you can sit it there and play for hours with the guitars, and if you buy one and take it home you can still bring it back after you've played it for a while, they allow you 30 days on returns. If you buy an amp that will cost you a little more, but you can buy the guitar and save for the amp because like I said it sounds great even without the electric. Good luck to you. Try some of these sites when your first learning and see what you think. I hope that your going to learn to read music !!!!!! http://www.jamplay.com/ http://www.billbrutal.com/ http://www.cyberfret.com/ http://www.guitar.about.com/ http://www.justinguitar.com/ http://www.guitarchordsmagic.com/ http://www.chordfind.com/ These are just a few that I know of, I hope that their all still there, a lot of them are dropping off.

If you're going to be a band director study CLASSICAL guitar and get a classical guitar. The education you get from it will be invaluable in band directing and very useful in the classroom. Music Ed majors are required to have a class in guitar nowadays. I've taught these college classes. To the person who said ' with guitar, a lot of people dont realize it is mainly a chordal instrument. lead lines are fun, but while playing guitar you will probably only spend 15 to 20% of your time playing leads if that much. most of the time you will be strumming chords to create a rhythm backbone for others to build off'- That's only true for pop and rock. Classical guitar is fully multi-voiced , harmony and melody all the time.