A Tonewood Primer

http://acousticguitar.com/a-tonewood-primer-how-to-pick-the-right-materials-for-your-optimal-sound

Alvarez Delta00

Shape	Blues
Neck	Mahogany
Bracing System	Back Shifted, Scalloped X
Bridge	Rosewood
Inlays	Abalone & Mother of Pearl
Fingerboard	Rosewood
Headstock Plate	Rosewood
Nut & Saddle	Real Bone
Tuner	Premium Open Gear Chrome
Binding	Ivory ABS
Strings	D'Addario EXP

Dimensions

Overall Length (mm)	1110
Body Width (mm)	374
Body Depth at Heel (mm)	82
Body Depth at Base (mm)	102
Scale (mm)	630
Scale (inches)	24 13/16”
Number of frets	20
Nut Width (mm)	44.45
Nut Width (inches)	1 3/4"

Product materials

Top	Solid A+ Sitka Spruce
Top Finish	Tobacco Sunburst
Back & Sides	Mahogany

Epiphone Masterbilt Century Archtops

Top 5 Things Every Intermediate Guitar Player Should Know

The BEST Way to Change Acoustic Guitar Strings

How to Adjust the Truss Rod on Your Acoustic Guitar

Six Powerful Reasons for Learning Guitar as an Adult

http://guitardomination.net/learning-guitar-as-an-adult/?mc_cid=5c68dd961e&mc_eid=b7fe8a557a

#1 Adults tend to be more passionate about playing the guitar.

#2 Adults know the songs and bands they like

#3 Adults enjoy listening to guitar music

#4 Adults have the resources to pay for equipment and lessons

#5 Adults have more free time to learn and practice

 #6 Adults can understand and apply music theory

The Ten Best Reasons to Take Up the Guitar—At Any Age

The Ten Best Reasons to Take Up the Guitar—At Any Age

 

 There is a multitude of reasons for wanting to learn to play guitar. Perhaps it is a desire to lead campfire sing-alongs that inspires you, or a particular band that blew your mind and made you want to do more than just listen to music, or perhaps you're looking to impress a certain someone, or many someones for that matter. But did you know that playing the guitar is actually good for you? The following are ten reasons why you might want to take up the guitar pronto, none of which involves fame, fortune or the sexy factor.

https://www.guitartricks.com/blog/The-Ten-Best-Reasons-to-Take-Up-the-Guitar?utm_source=Guitar+Tricks+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2b5dff51ca-GT_NL_Prospects_5_22_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_832235591b-2b5dff51ca-96350761 

 

Gibson vs Epiphone - Hummingbird & J200

The Ballad of the Dreadnought

https://vimeopro.com/user48581009/the-ballad-of-the-dreadnought?utm_campaign=news+%26+annoucements&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=29288254&_hsenc=p2anqtz-8hemcomoho6zvsjcfa6_ksb7kducjgtddubteplmwn2ra9ptafdqzvlfxhetz91-h4jykknne_jtmsgigpbis4dmrkmq&_hsmi=29288254

How to Get Great Sound in Your YouTube Videos

http://www.sweetwater.com/insync/how-to-get-great-sound-in-your-youtube-videos/?etitle&utm_source=insync&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insync20160429

The Four Stages for Learning Guitar

Stage One - Unconscious Incompetence - "You Don't Know What You Don't Know"

 

Ignorance is bliss applies here. You're looking at a guitar and you don't even know how it works. 

Stage Two - Conscious Incompetence - "I suck!"

 

This is the stage where most people give up because they judge themselves too harshly. Don't let your ego get in your way here. That's the bottom line.

  .

Stage Three - Conscious Competence - "I'm actually doing it!"

 

You still have to focus and work on the skill, but you can do it and it sounds good.

Stage Four - Unconscious Competence - "I can do this in my sleep."

 

This is where the pros are at overall with their playing..

Dire Straits Sultans Of Swing Master Guitar Track

Favorite Guitars

Budget Acoustic "Parlor" Guitar Review

Budget Acoustic "Parlor" Guitar Review - Fender CP-100, Gretsch Jim Dandy & Epiphone EL-00 

 

 

Fingerstyle Lesson

Best Three Martins for Fingerstyle

How String Alloys Effect Tone

Fingers Hurt?

3 Best Beginner Acoustic Guitars Under $1000

Three Best Beginner Acoustic Guitars Under $1000 

 

 

Yamaha FG/FS 800 Series

The newly release Yamaha FG and FS 800 series

Recording King Dirty 30's Solid Top Parlor RPH-P1

A modern update of a classic turn-of-the-century guitar. It's perfect for guitar history buffs, recording engineers, front-porch blues players, and thanks to the smaller body size and shorter scale length, beginners who need a compact, easy to play, great-sounding instrument.

The traditional parlor-size body is based on a historic Lyon & Healy model. It's built with a solid spruce top for classic tone, comfortable rosewood fretboard with stencil fret markers, a 24.2” scale length and a bone nut and saddle for excellent string/body resonance.

Recording King guitars combine vintage design with modern upgrades for players, and the Dirty 30's Parlor is no exception. Many turn-of-the-century small-body guitars were made with ladder bracing, but the Dirty 30's Parlor benefits from x-bracing designed to accommodate modern string tension but retain the sound of the vintage parlor guitars.

The Recording King Dirty 30's Parlor is finished in dark tobacco sunburst. With true parlor size, vintage design, and modern upgrades, the Dirty 30's Parlor is the guitar for players with one foot in the past and the other in the present.

MODEL:	Dirty 30s Cross Country
BODY SHAPE:	Parlor
TOP MATERIAL:	Solid Spruce
BACK MATERIAL:	Whitewood
SIDE MATERIAL:	Whitewood
TOP BRACING PATTERN:	X
TOP BRACES:	Spruce
NECK MATERIAL:	Nato
NECK PROFILE:	Contemporary "C"
NECK JOINT:	Dovetail
FRETBOARD MATERIAL:	Rosewood
SCALE LENGTH:	24.2"
# OF FRETS CLEAR:	12
# OF FRETS TOTAL:	19
NUT MATERIAL:	Bone
NUT WIDTH:	1-11/16"
HEADSTOCK OVERLAY:	Rosewood
HEADSTOCK INLAY:	None
TUNING MACHINES:	Black Button
BODY BINDING:	Ivory
ROSETTE:	Ivory Bound Soundhole
TOP PURFLING:	None
FRETBOARD INLAYS:	RK Stencil
FRETBOARD BINDING:	None
BRIDGE MATERIAL:	Rosewood
BRIDGE SHAPE:	Straight
SADDLE:	Bone
BRIDGE PINS & ENDPIN:	Black
PICKGUARD:	None
FINISH:	Tobacco Sunburst, Satin

Solid vs Laminate Top

Every Guitar has a Voice

Recording King EZ Tone

Recording King's EZ Tone series uses one of the thinnest poly finishes ever combined with finely-tuned action for guitars that resonate freely to deliver classic acoustic tone that's not choked by a thick finish and easy playability to reduce finger fatigue.

EZ Tone guitars are built with solid spruce tops, mahogany back and sides, a thin profile mahogany neck and an ultra thin finish

MODEL:	EZTone 000-12th fret
BODY SHAPE:	000-12th fret
TOP MATERIAL:	Solid Engelmann Spruce
BACK MATERIAL:	Mahogany
SIDE MATERIAL:	Mahogany
TOP BRACING PATTERN:	Forward-X
TOP BRACES:	Spruce
NECK MATERIAL:	Mahogany
NECK PROFILE:	C
NECK JOINT:	Dovetail
FRETBOARD MATERIAL:	Rosewood
SCALE LENGTH:	25.4"
# OF FRETS CLEAR:	12
# OF FRETS TOTAL:	20
NUT MATERIAL:	Plastic
NUT WIDTH:	1-11/16"
HEADSTOCK OVERLAY:	Rosewood
HEADSTOCK INLAY:	Recording King Classic
TUNING MACHINES:	Die Cast Half Moon
BODY BINDING:	None
ROSETTE:	Ivory Bound Soundholetage
TOP PURFLING:	None
FRETBOARD INLAYS:	None
FRETBOARD BINDING:	None
BRIDGE MATERIAL:	Rosewood
BRIDGE SHAPE:	Standard
SADDLE:	Plastic
BRIDGE PINS & ENDPIN:	Ivory
PICKGUARD:	None
FINISH:	Satin
ELECTRONICS:	None
COLOR OPTIONS:	Natural

Yamaha FG850

This new addition to the FG series of acoustic guitars is Yamaha's first all-mahogany body acoustic. Yamaha's FG series has consistently been the #1 selling acoustic guitar family of all time, and rightly so. They represent one of the best values in the music industry. Whether you're a beginning player, or just looking to add another guitar to your collection, the FG850 is a great way to get a high-quality all-mahogany acoustic guitar at a very affordable price.

Manufacturer	Yamaha
Condition	New
Body Style/Shape	Dreadnought
String Material	Steel
Number of Strings	6-Strings
Right/Left Handed	Right
Top	Mahogany
Back	Mahogany
Sides	Mahogany
Neck	Nato
Fretboard	Rosewood
Bridge	Rosewood
Cutaway	No
Electronics	None
Tuner Built In	No
Scale Length	650mm
Nut Width	43mm
Finish	Gloss Mahogany

How to cheat at playing guitar

Martin Dreadnought Junior

• Model: Dreadnought Junior
• Construction: Mortise/Tenon Neck Joint
• Body Size: Dreadnought Junior - 14 Fret
• Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
• Rosette: 2 Ring
• Top Bracing Pattern: Dreadnought Junior
• Top Braces: Solid Sitka Spruce 1/4"
• Back Material: Solid Sapele
• Back Purfling: none
• Side Material: Solid Sapele
• Endpiece: none
• Endpiece Inlay: none
• Binding: Black Boltaron - Top Only
• Top Inlay Style: Black/White Boltaron
• Side Inlay: none
• Back Inlay: none
• Neck Material: Select Hardwood
• Neck Shape: Dreadnought Junior Profile
• Nut Material: White Corian
• Headstock: Solid/Dreadnought Junior Taper
• Headplate: HPL East Indian Rosewood w/ Pad Printed Gold Logo
• Heelcap: none
• Fingerboard Material: Black Richlite
• Scale Length: 24''
• Number Of Frets Clear: 14
• Number Of Frets Total: 20
• Fingerboard Width At Nut: 1-3/4''
• Fingerboard Width At 12th Fret: 2-1/8''
• Fingerboard Position Inlays: Style 28 - White Boltaron Dots
• Fingerboard Binding: none
• Finish Back & Sides: Hand Applied Natural Oil Finish
• Finish Top: Hand Applied Natural Oil Finish
• Finish Neck: Hand Applied Natural Oil Finish
• Bridge Material: Black Richlite
• Bridge Style: Junior Style Belly
• Bridge String Spacing: 2-3/16''
• Saddle: 16'' Radius/Compensated/White Tusq
• Tuning Machines: Chrome Enclosed w/ Small Buttons
• Recommended Strings: Martin SP Lifespan 80/20 Bronze Medium Gauge (MSP6200)
• Bridge & End Pins: White w/ Black Dots
• Pickguard: Delmar Tortoise Color
• Case: Gig Bag
• Interior Label: Paper Label
• Electronics: Fishman Sonitone

Martin Guitars

Everything you ever wanted to know about Martin Guitars -


  http://vintagemartin.com/

Introduction to Guitar

If you just got your guitar,  you might find this course presented by the Berklee College of Music a good starting point. It's a structured free class that is very well done -

https://www.coursera.org/learn/guitar/

Syllabus

Week 1

Welcome to Introduction to Guitar

Preview

1. Welcome to Introduction to Guitar
2. Choosing Your Guitar
3. Essential Accessories

Week 2

Acoustic / Electric Guitar and the Basics

1. Welcome to Lesson 2
2. Parts of the Guitar
3. Chord Block Diagrams and Fretboard Maps
4. Lesson Assignment and Peer Review

1. Assignment: Lesson 1 Peer Review

Week 3

Getting Started: Fundamental Guitar Skills

1. Welcome to Lesson 3
2. String Names and Numbers
3. Tuning Your Guitar
4. Picking
5. Strumming
6. Lesson Assignment and Peer Review

1. Assignment: Lesson 2 Peer Review

Week 4

The Twelve Half Steps and Basic Notation

1. Welcome to Lesson 4
2. Twelve Frets and Twelve Half Steps
3. Notes on the Fretboard
4. Rhythm Basics
5. Music Notation and Tablature
6. Lesson Assignment and Peer Review

1. Assignment: Lesson 3 Peer Review

Week 5

Scales: Construction and Fingerings

1. Welcome to Lesson 5
2. Position Playing
3. The Chromatic Scale
4. Major Scales
5. Lesson 5 Assignment and Peer Review

1. Assignment: Lesson 4 Peer Review

Week 6

Chords: Building Easy Triads and Power Cords

1. Welcome to Lesson 6
2. Triad Chords
3. Power Chords
4. Lesson 5 Assignment and Peer Review

1. Assignment: Lesson 5 Peer Review

Week 7

Putting it All Together: The Pentatonic Scale and Songs

1. Welcome to Lesson 7
2. Pentatonic Scale
3. Essential Electric Guitar Effects
4. Songs
5. Summary
6. Lesson 6 Assignment and Peer Review
7. Introduction to Guitar Course Evaluation

1. Assignment: Lesson 6 Peer Review