I am looking at buying a guitar. Can you tell me more about them?
Yes absolutely! They are a nice fretted stringed instrument. Usually six strings but you can also get a 12 string.
Ok. I heard there is acoustic and electric. What is the difference?
Well for the acoustic, the body is hallow wood. The electric has an electrical amplifier and played through a speaker.
I think I will go with acoustic so I don't have to buy more equipment. What else can you tell me?
Well it takes some practice. But you can learn to play by strumming or plucking the strings. You can use your thumb and fingernails. In the beginning your fingers will probably get a little sore.
Yeah I heard some people use a plastic "pick" so they don't have to use their fingers.
Guitar pick
A guitar pick (American English) is a plectrum used for guitars. Picks are generally made of one uniform material—such as some kind of plastic (nylon, Delrin, celluloid), rubber, felt, tortoiseshell, wood, metal, glass, tagua, or stone. They are often shaped in an acute isosceles triangle with the two equal corners rounded and the third corner less rounded. They are used to strum chords or to sound individual notes on a guitar.
In British English, guitar
fretted, but a significant number are fretless instead. Semi-fretted versions also exist, although they are quite rare.
Like the traditional electric bass and the double bass, the acoustic bass guitar commonly has four strings, which are normally tuned E-A-D-G, an octave below the lowest four strings of the 6-string guitar. Like the electric bass guitar, models with five or more strings have been produced, although these are less common. In part, this is because the body of an acoustic