Essnetially when the US got Mexican made ones in the lower ends of the price range, we (and I think Europe?) got Japanese ones.
Changed a bit now, the Mexican ones are low end, Japanese ones are mid range, US top end.
With the zombie apocalypse limiting most activities at the moment, can any of you gurus give me some advice about online tutorials for a 10 yo to continue his beginner learning please?
Also our 6yo is learning keyboard so info for that would be great as well.
Cheers (from 1.5m+ away)
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My 7yo is starting and weāre using the app Yousician. Itās game based learning, so keeps their interest.
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Ah, Fender is offering a free online tutorial for 3 months if you get on quickly. My older 2 daughters signed up today.
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Hmmmā¦ my 7yo is interested (finally) and now we are stuck at home together for the foreseeable future. Lessons I give him last about 20 seconds because he wonāt listen and wants to show ME etc. Managed to teach him to play (barely) just the open string pattern at the start of Nothing Else Matters, but heās literally played the pattern less than 10 times. Still itās a giant leap, so I should be grateful, though teaching him to fret a note is more painful for me than it is for him.
Will check out Yousician, as from memory you use a real guitar along with an iPad, which he has.
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I reckon Iām going to need to dig out my guitar. Itās been a while.
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DO IT!!!
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Son is in lockdown at home with the Kids, ā¦ just started posting Covers and taking requests, ā¦ got the kids involved with their Gits Keys Tambos etc, Posted about a dozen so far.
Kids are very creative, so they are taking the pizz walking in & out with silly shitt on their heads etc, .planning it out and making sort of Home Vid clips. Been LMAO, and also swelling wit pride at their talent and creativity shining.
Could be a blessing in disguise.
G/Son been writing & performing his rap, ā¦ which I hate, ā¦ but heās very good lyrically and is getting great feedback from those that dig it.
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I wish I could set all my stuff up now that it has all arrived from the States, but Iām in a rental right now and donāt have anywhere to put it.
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How long? I remember getting my Dads crappy classical guitar out of the cupboard when I was about 15yo in 1993 after someone showed me the intro to Today by Smashing Pumpkins 
at a party. It must have been a Kmart Special from the 70ās - it still had cat gut strings on it.
Lucky I had mates to put me on the path!
How much stuff you got?
Haha. Depends if you mean āpicked it up, strummed a couple of chords and tried to convince son to have a lookā or āplayed properly and got some callousesā
In the first case sometime in the last 5 years. In the second case something more like 15.
A 7 piece drum kit, two basses, one guitar, one synth, one guitar amp, an Ampeg bass head and two 2x10 speaker cabinets.
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Yep, use any guitar. Your deviceās mic picks up the pitch and timing of the notes played. Worth checking out at least. My son is more interested in this than following direction from me.
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Reckon Marty someoneorother has some good freebies on YT.
For piano, my kid got into Hoffmanās Academy for a while (6-7) but has dropped off since he discovered more mindless ipad pursuits
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Nice, that beautiful axe deserves to be played.
What model is it?
Itās a bottom end Martin (I think it was called road series), with the small body. 000M.
Iām sure itās real fun to play.
My guitar teacher has a Martin 00M, not sure if itās a Road Series but itā not too fancy, it does have a pick-up in it. Heās had it for years and years as his main gigging guitar, plus he teaches and plays it all day everyday so itās taken a beating and has been repaired a heap of times - on itās last legs though now I think.
Personally I love shiny new guitars, or some of the really wild looking relicād guitars, with nice brand names, and they inspire me to want to play, whereas the real pros donāt give a crap about that stuff, they just see it as a tool and want it to feel good in their hands.
It helps me put things in perspective sometimes.
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mines very much a bedroom guitar. Picked it up second hand, and pretty sure it had rarely been played, and Iām forever disappointed at my lack of using it. It has a pickup, but no pre, and the Fishman I bought years ago doesnāt seem to work anymore. Must be a short somewhere.
So much to get back into.
(Like the rest of life as kids have started to get bigger)
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