How To Choose The Best First Student Guitar

Posted on April 8, 2013 by admin | in babysitting

Learning to play a musical instrument allows your child to strengthen a wide range of their auditory skills, benefiting her throughout her adult life if she continues to play. Some of those benefits will extend into adulthood even years after her last lesson. Kids that learn to play music tend to score higher on the SAT Reasoning test than their peers who did not take music lessons, according to evidence published by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. Your child may be entertaining fantasies of rock super-stardom when she picks up her first guitar, but you’ll know that she’s actively improving her mind and her future with every chord she learns. For your child to reap all of these benefits, however, she’ll have to stick with her guitar lessons, and a big part of ensuring that she does is finding the right guitar.

Keep Your Child’s Musical Preferences in Mind

In the world of acoustic guitars, there are two different types: classical and steel-stringed. Classical guitars are strung with nylon strings, and boast a wider fingerboard with a smaller body than their steel-stringed counterparts. Those nylon strings are softer and easier for your child’s smaller fingers to manage, but they create a much mellower sound and will not lead as quickly to the callous formation that allows seasoned guitarists to play without hurting their fingers. Kids that favor classical music or the softer sounds of folk music may prefer a classical guitar over one with steel strings. Rock, pop and country music sounds, however, come from steel-stringed acoustic guitars. Before you start searching for a student guitar, you and your child will need to decide which is better suited to her tastes and preferences.

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