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Here on the Rock,Blues Guitar Blog Online,well learn and study over the next couple years, about - Guitar Chords,Moveable Guitar Chords,Open Chords,Chord Voiciings, Scales, Hot Rock,Blues and Jazz Guitar Licks used in Music Today........
And we'll not only study about movable chords, but we'll learn about Moveable Guitar Scale Patterns for Major & Minor Scale's & Moveable Pentatonic Scale Patterns used by many Rock,Blues Guitarist World Wide. We'll also take a look at Advanced Moveable Jazz Scales & Guitar Chords along with Moveable Chord voicings,up and down the guitar neck and I'll teach you some KOOL Song Endings.
Plus..... we'll Learn Guitar Music Notation & Rock,Blues Guitar Tab. We'll also Learn How to Write Rock, Blues Guitar Music & Rock,Blues Lyrics.
And .......get this we'll Take a Look at Creating a Rock,Blues Music Studio in Your Home & How to Sell Your Rock,Blues Guitar Cd's World Wide & Make Money Fast !! PLUS..... much more in the Rock , Blues Guitar Blog Online !! Please bookmark us as you rock,blues blog for your online guitar center, for the best guitar resourses anywhere !!
And if you're interested in my picks for the best acoustic and electric guitars, and the best deals on the market, then you came to the right place.
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Also check out our top 100 greatest rock,blues guitarist of all time.This is my own personal list of the greatest rock,blues guitar solo artist and rock,blues legends who ever lived. You'll find many Great rock,blues guitarst like Eric Clapton,John Mayer,Eric Johnson,Stevie Ray Vaughan,Jimi Hendrix,Santana,and many other's.
Hi my name is GW Williams, I am a Rock,Blues and Jazz Guitarist,I also play Classical Guitar as well.
On the Internet you can read a lot about me my music, concert dates and appearances........but if you want to know who I really am, just hang around a while.
Below you'll find my personal top 100 rock,blues guitar picks for the best all time rock,blues guitarist who have ever lived. Again these are my picks and not Rolling Stone Magazines picks .
Anyways - For any Top Guitarist to make my - Rock,Blues & Jazz Guitar Top 100 Greatest Guitar players list - They must be able to play, lead rock,blues or jazz guitar & rhythm guitar,they should be very skilled in chords and chord voicings also most guitarist should be able to finger pick or play classical guitar and understand music theory and be creative with new idea's and also write music......Guitar Skill is very important here,they must be the best that the guitar world has to offer. Otherwise, just being famous,or the most popular guitarist,just isn't enough to make this list. It's the Over All Skill on guitar that counts most.A Great lead guitarist, who knows very little about chords really looses out here.
And just because someone created a new style of rock or blues guitar (Like Hendrix did) or because some one is famous , really doesn't make them the best guitarist in my opinion.
Infact Stevie Ray Vaughan learn many of Jimi Hendrix moves on the the guitar neck, yet I feel Stevie Ray Vaughan improved on Jimi's guitar playing style and Stevie added many new twists to the guitar himself and made his rock,blues guitar style the best of all time. Stevie Ray Vaughan understood,music theory and even jazz theory,he was more skilled than just a rock guitarist or a blues guitarist. He was the best of all time.
Also I received several emails yesterday asking why I didn't put my own name on this top rock,blues guitar player list, ....well....I figured this is a list of who I personally like the best, and I didn't think to even count myself...so I didn't add my own name...
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Any ways - Below is my top 100 greatest guitar player list.
My Top Guitarist Picks - By GW Williams
1.)Stevie Ray Vaughan .......... The Greatest Rock, Blues Guitarist of All Time - His Rock, blues guitar playing was also mixed with Jazz scales, his great speed and strength on guitar, and his solid rock,blues guitar playing style....... still leaves guitarist wondering, how did he do those awesome moves on guitar.What Stevie Ray Vaughan did on guitar was that he combined both lead scales while playing Rhythm guitar, creating and leaving most other great guitarist in the dust.The late great Stevie Ray Vaughan died in 1990 in a helicopter crash. His rock and blues guitar playing will live on forever. He is the KING !!
2.) Eric Johnson .... Rock,Blues,Country, Jazz - he is a great master of rock,blues and jazz guitar,he knows guitar scales forward and backward, he works around the clock to have the best rock,blues guitar tone on his guitar, maybe more than anyone in history.growing up he listen to great blues ad rock guitarist like Howl'n Wolf.
3.)George Benson ..... Jazz Guitar - He's the greatest jazz guitarist of all time, no one is better, great hand speed and perfect timming on guitar, he doesn't need sound effects, because he is the best at what he does.
4.)John Mayer - Rock Guitar, Blues & Folk Rock - He's the best young rock,blues guitar talent in the world today. One day he may pass everyone on this list and be the greatest, rock,blues guitarist of all time.
5.) Al Di Meola .... Jazz - New Age Jazz
6.) Eric Clapton...... Rock, Blues Guitar -The worlds most famous living Blues and Rock Guitarist Alive Today,every couple years Clapton holds his Rock, Blues Crossroads Concert, to help alcohol and drug abuse people recover. Every rock and blues guitarist would love to jump at a chance to play at this great concert event for charity.Eric Clapton is my favorite rock,blues guitar player,but still I had to rank him 6th, because there are other rock,blues guitarist I feel are better guitarist.I enjoy listening to Eric Clapton play rock, blues guitar more than anyone else. He seems to enjoy playing guitar with a great amount of love and it shows in his concerts.I know Eric Clapton has been influenced by so many great rock,blues guitarist of the past. Like, Buddy Guy,Robert Johnson,T-Bone Walker and Eric Clapton has been admired by great rock,blues guitar hero's like,Stevie Ray Vaughan,Jimi Hendrix,Robert Cray,John Mayer. and even Jeff Beck and B.B. King.
7.)Joe Satriani...... Rock,Blues Guitarist,Heavy Metal Blues Guitarist,Jazz,Hard Rock,Joe Satriani is a very nice person to meet. If you get a chance to hear this amazing guitarist in concert you'll never forget what he does on guitar and the sounds he creates. He's a master rock,blues and jazz show man.
8.) Yngwie Malmsteen..... Heavy Metal Rock Guitar - One of the best, great hands for speed, plays almost a classical guitar style , mixed with lead rock or jazz scales. Some blues guitar, but more a guitar style of his own.
9.) Jimi Hendrix - Rock, Blues Guitarist, some say the greatest rock,blues guitar player to ever live.Jimi Hendrix was very inventive and help create the modern sounds of rock and blues guitar still used today.Hendrix is sometimes called the father of Rock guitar, and where he left off, Stevie Ray Vaughan improved on creating an even high guitar standard of Rock,Blues Guitar Playing.
10.)Jimmy Page .......... Rock, Blues Guitarist Jimmy Page, with along with Jeff Beck,Eric Clapton& Jimi Hendrix , help take rock and blues guitar forward to make huge advancments in music. But Once in the late 70's the blues started to loose ground, untill the mid 1980's when Stevie Ray Vaughan got the fire going again.It was these 5 men over the past 50 years along with B.B King, that kept the blues alive, and rock guitar singing.
11.)Jeff Beck ..... He's An Orginal Rock, Blues Guitarist, Finger Style, Heavy Metal Guitarist, he creates guitar sounds,that are out of this world, he's a very creative and inventive rock,blues guitarist using both sound effects, and his wild style of rock,blues guitar on the whammy bar.
12.)Paco De Luica - Classical Guitarist - Flamenco Guitar, one of the greatest guitar players ever, he knows scales like a great jazz artist, he could be the worlds greats rock and blues guitar player if he wanted to be, he is that good. If he was a rock ,blues guitarist, he'd be the KING !! NO one is better. And that's why his name is here.
13.)James Burton - Best Known as Elvis's,country-rock Guitarist from the 1970's
14.)Vince Gill - Country and Rock Guitar
15.)Robbie Robertson...... Rock Guitar
16.)Derek Trucks - Slide Guitarist and, blues Guitarist
17.)Johnny Ramone - Rock Guitar
18.)John McLaughlin ...... Jazz - New Age
19.)Wes Montgomery ....... Jazz, Blues Guitar
20.)Larry Coryell ....... Jazz
21.)Joe Pass - Jazz Guitar Player
22.)Mike Bloomfield - Blues, Rock Guitar Player
23 Warren Haynes - Blues Guitarist and Blues Slide Guitarist
24.)George Harrison - Rock Guitarist for the Beattles
25.)Freddy King - Blues Guitarist and Rock,Blues Guitar Player - Freddie Kingg - was a blues guitarist and singer,his best know songs,Have You Ever Loved A Woman,has been recorded by other rock,blues guitarist like Eric Clapton.Another song he recorded was,That's What You Think, He also wrote Hide Away which I believe both, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan covered on rock,blues guitar. It's amazing fact that Freddie King and he learned his Blues Guitar style, by sneaking into bars at 16 years of age and listening to Muddy Waters,T-bone Walker,Jimmy Rogers,Robert Lockwood Jr,Howlin Wolf.
Freddie Kings,Rock,blues guitar style influenced ,Eric Clapton,Peter Green,Stevie Ray Vaughan,John Mayall,Kenny Sheperd and many other blues guitar players.
26.)Tom Morello - Heavy Metal Guitar and Punk Guitar
27.)Mark Knopfler - Blues Guitar and Country Guitar
28.)Stephen Stills - Rock Guitarist
29.)Ron Asheton - Folk Rock, Punk Guitar Player
30.)Buddy Guy - Blues Guitarist and Rock,Soul Guitarist, - Buddy Guy - has many Rock, Blues guitar Fans, and he's known for his patented blues guitar licks,and long bending of notes,he left an impression on Jimmy Hendrix,and help influence Eric Claptons blues guitar playing and his blues guitar also influenced other rock,blues guitarist,and country blues guitar players like Bonnie Raitt. Buddy Guys rock, blues guitar has influenced millions of guitar players around the world. And he's the heart of the Chicago,blues clubs. Buddy Guy is as Robert Cray stated - Stone Cold Blues,and You have to watch Buddy Carefully so not to miss any of his rock, blues guitar tricks.Buddy Guy is Blues Guitar.
31.)Carlos Santana - Latin,Rock Guitarist and Blues Guitarist
32.)John Cipollina - Rock Guitar Player
33.)Lee Ranaldo - Rock Guitar Player
34.)Keith Richards - Rock Guitarist for the- Rolling Stones
35.)John Fahey - Best Know for his finger Style Rock Guitar
36.)Steve Cropper - Blues,Rock Guitar Player
37.)Bo Diddley - Rock,Blues Guitarist - Bo Diddley - had a strong,rock, blues guitar influence on many great rock and roll guitarist and singers,his style was a mix of rock and blues guitar and singing, many great rock guitar players such as Buddy Holly,Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton love his music.Bo Diddley is in the rock and roll Hall Of Fame. He grew up with the blues guitar music of South Chicago in his ears, and he listen to blues artists like, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. For years to come rock,blues guitar players will be singing Bo Diddley Songs.
38.)Peter Green - Blues , Rock Guitarist
39.)Brian May - Rock Guitarist
40.)John Fogerty - Rock,Blues Guitar - Folk Rock Guitar - County Guitar
41.)Clarence White - Rock and Rock N Roll Guitarist
42.)Robert Fripp - Progressive Digital Rock Guitar Sounds
43.)Eddie Haze - Rock Guitar, Metal Guitar, Funk Guitar Player
44.)Scotty Moore - Elvis's first Guitarist from the 1950's his early rock guitar style had the sound of country,rock with a slight blues guitar. Mainly he was one of the first rock guitar pioneers using the new echo amps of the day. They called them echo amps, before they name it reverb.
45.)Frank Zappa - Rock Guitarist
46.)Les Paul - Creator of the electric Les Paul Guitar - Rock Guitarist
47.)T-Bone Walker - Blues Guitarist - T-Bone Walker was a blues guitarist and singer,He also played some rock,blues guitar and folk rock blues guitar.His blues guitar solos on electric guitar brought fame to t-bone walk as one of the first electric blues guitarist....one of his best known songs was, Stormy Monday other blues songs where, the "T-Bone Shuffle" and "Let Your Hair Down, Baby, Let's Have a Natural Ball". all are considered blues classics. T-bone Walker helped lead the way for rock,blues guitar and his, blues guitar playing still influences both blues guitarist and rock guitar players today. Almost all rock, blues guitar players today are influenced by T-Bone Walk weather they know it or not, because of him, he help create the future of music in modern rock & blues guitar today. And even today, some of the best Heavy Metal Artist even practice T-Bone Walkers moves on guitar. His style of play may have been the blues on guitar, but he also help shaped the future of Rock Guitar long after he was gone.
48.)Joe Perry - Rock, Blues, Slide Guitarist
49.)Pat Metheny - Jazz Guitarist
50.)Pete Townsend - Rock guitar player for - The Who
51.)Paul Kossoff - Rock Guitar
52.)Lou Reed - Punk Rock Guitar
53.)Mickey Baker - Jazz, Rock Guitar
54.)Jorma Kaukonen - Blues Guitar
55.)Ritchie Blackmore - Rock Guitarist
56.)Tom Verlaine - Rock Guitar Player
57.)Roy Buchanan - Blues Guitarist and Rock N Roll Guitar
58.)Dickey Betts - Blues and Rock Guitar Player
59.)Jonny Greenwood - Grunge Guitar, Folk Guitar
60.)Django Reinhart - Jazz Guitarist
61.)Jimmy Bruno ....... Jazz Guitar
62.)Zoot Horn Rollo - Rock, Blues Guitar
63.)Danny Gatton - Jazz,Blues Rock Guitar
64.)Mick Ronson - Rock Guitarist
65.)Hubert Sumlin - Blues Guitarist Hubert Sumlin is best known as a Blues Guitarist,even though he does play some rock, blues guitar which I witnessed at the Eric Clapton Crossroads Concert.
Best know for the work he did with Blues artist Howlin Wolf's band, he has over the years influenced many great rock,blues guitar players world wide. Famous rock, Blues guitarist like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix , Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page,Keith Richards.
Hubert Sumlin also has help keep alive the love behind the blues guitarist of the pass, with his endearing guitar playing and great rock,blues personality. Even as an old gentleman blues guitarist he can still play with the best in the world. The rock,blues guitar world owes him a lot. Hubert Sumlin is a great,great blues guitarist and a great, great man who is loved by both rock,blues guitarist world wide.
66.)Steve Howe - Rock Guitarist
67.)Link Wray - Rock, Blues Guitarist
68.)Jerry Miller - Rock, Blues Guitar Player
69.)Break Jack - Heavy Metal Guitarist
70.)Eddie Van Halen - Hard Rock Guitarist
71.)Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues and Rock Guitar
72.)Jim Hall - Jazz Guitar
73.)Trey Anastasio - Improv Rock Guitarist
74.)Henry Vestine - Rock and Blues Guitar Player
75.)Johnny Winter - Rock,Blues Guitarist
76.)Ali Farka - From West Africa- He Played a Bluesy Pop Rock with Acoustic Guitar
77.) Adam Jones - Rock and Heavy Metal Guitarist
78.) Michael Angelo Batio - Heavy Metal Guitarist
79.)Cliff Singer - Rock,Blues Guitarist and Singer
80.)Robert Quine - Jazz,Rock,Blues Guitarist
81.)Charlie Christain - Jazz Guitar Player
82.)David Gilmour - British Rock Guitarist
83.)Neil Young - Folk Rock Guitarist
84.)Eddie Cochran - Rock , Blues and Country Guitarist
85.)Randy Rhoads - Heavy Metal Rock Guitar
86.)Tony Iommi - Rock and Metal Guitar
87.)Joan Jett - Female Rock Guitar Player
88.)Dave Davies - Rock N Roll Guitar
89.)The Rocket - Heavy Metal Guitarist
90.)Glen Buxton - Guitarist and Writer,Heavy Metal Rock Guitar
91.)Robby Krieger - Rock N Roll Guitarist
92.)Brian Setzer - Rock N Roll Guitarist
93.) Richie Sambora - Pop Rock Guitar Player
94.)The Flame - Wild Metal Unknown Guitarist
95.)Kevin Shields - Rock Guitar Player
96.)Paul Gilbert - Blues and Jazz Guitarist
97.)Robert Randolph - Rock,Blues,Jazz Steel Slide Guitarist
98.)Leigh Stephen - Jazz,Rock Fusion
99.)Herman Li - Heavy Metal Rock Guitar Player
100.)Kenny Burrell - Rock Guitarist
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My Ovation Legend 1777 LX pic - above is an AWESOME Professional Guitar !!
This guitar is rock,blues and jazz guitar Heaven, this great guitar plugged in onstage sounds warm,full,and shines like a guitar recorded on a digital record - I wouldn't use any other guitar. It's a Very Balanced Guitar, I compared it to the Martins and Taylor guitars and this beat them hands down. This has one of the fastest guitar necks, for playing rock guitar,jazz guitar or blues guitar. And the value of this great guitar keeps going up year after year. There is no better acoustic guitar I have played for acoustic Jazz , Rock and Blues Guitar. While playing the blues, the strings on this great guitar hold in tune very well, I do a lot bluesy songs with a lot of string bends and I am amazed that it doesn;t go out of tune much. When shopping around for a great acoustic guitar for blues and rock music,I searched for 2 months but , I could not find a Martin or Taylor guitar better than this guitar.
If you looking buy a great acoustic guitar for rock and blues playing?But don't really know what to get? Then stay tuned as I tell you my Top 3 acoustic Guitar Picks to keep you rocking and playing the blues.
1.) The Ovation 1777 LX Legend Acoustic-Electric Guitar ( MSRP - List Price $2395.00 ) has a fast action neck almost like an electric guitar neck, great sound and perfectly balanced tone.This guitar is my Top Pick as the best guitar in the world to own because of playability and price,it just doesn't get any better than this folks. The electronics are second to none,hands down it sounds better than a Martin or Taylor guitars plugged in .And unplugged it also sounds better than the New Martins or Taylor guitars and This Ovation Guitar Is Priced nearly $800.00 lower in cost than the top Taylor or Martin guitars. One point I would like to make, Ovation sells the 1777 LX with D'Addario guitar strings. These strings make the guitar sound not as full.But once you put some Martin Light Gauge Bronze SP strings on this baby, look out......The neck is lighting fast, great for acoustic rock guitar,jazz guitar, and easy to bend strings to play the blues, this is the lightest acoustic guitar I have ever owned.You won't find better balance anywhere for the money.
Ovation Guitars where once considered the best guitars in the world,and they still are but most of the young kids today play the guitars thier guitar hero's play.
I do have to admit most people judge Ovation by the cheaper made Celebrity Guitars they make, but those are just shallow back guitars, no where in the class of this Ovation Deep Bowl Cutaway. The 1777 Is My number 1 Pick, for best Guitar all around.
Hope the young Kids learn this.
Also I own an Old Ovation Legned Deep Bowl 1717 Guitar I purchased in 1984, just so you folks know that guitar as mellowed with age, there is no better guitar than my old Ovation for sound,never heard an Old Martin sound better. Folks don't let people tell you Ovations don't get better with age, because they do.
2.)Martin DC-Aura Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar ( list price $3,650.00 )This guitar can do it all, the sound is a good as the best Ovations, but for the price the Ovation still wins, and Ovations neck is faster. Yet this guitar is built for greatness , It has awesome electronics, but I feel the plug in sound is a little modular or digital beyond the point of sounding as a true acoustic guitar. It has the sound of a Amp Cab Modeling syste like you'd find in some Guitar pedals today. These are studio guitar sounds that are built into the guitar, yet it is awesome. Many of you may enjoy this guitar more than the Ovation because of the Martin name, yet for the cost, I'd still go with the Ovation LX 1777.
3.) Taylor 810 Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar ( list price $3148.00 )this is my 3rd Pick, Taylor makes great guitars, and this baby has great balance and sustain,excellent bass response, perfect tone,Spruce Top and India Rosewood back and sides.The only thing I don't care for is Taylor has no electroic system for this guitar and in truth Taylor guitars with electronics need to be improved on there control knobs,there's no way to really tell where your settings are.And they are on the top front of the guitars.But like I said this guitar comes without electronics.
All these guitars were designed by pure genius, it took more than a online computer science degree to build great guitar's like these.These guitars are a work of art !!
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Many top rock,blues guitar players use movable chord progressions and chord voicing with music theory to travel up and down the guitar neck. Just like those movable chords on the guitar neck, there are also what we call moveable guitar scale patterns.Another name is moveable Guitar Box Patterns. These patterns make great rock, blues and jazz guitar players into super, almost superhuman rock guitarist.
These scale patterns make it easier to see the neck of the guitar while playing rock,blues and jazz guitar leads.At first it may seem hard to learn these patterns because you must memorize them, but once you do then the fun begins to happen.Many great jazz,rock and blues guitar players, and studio musicians in the record industry, use these moveable patterns because it's fast to improvise with them.
Anyone playing lead guitar in rock,blues or jazz music has a tremedous upper hand if they know these lead scal patterns.To use these patterns correctly you need to know the common tones in scales and the key you're playing in. Common tones are the root - 3rd - 5th & 7th notes of most scales. To make it simple, these notes are your starting and stopping points when doing scale runs on the guitar.Yet so much more can be done, than to just use these for just scales runs.The more mature guitar player will learn to play these scales patterns inside and out, at the same time creating and inventing new hot licks.Great guitarist may spend years doing this.It's been said that these 5 scale patterns can become a life time study.And I don't know if anyone who has ever learn it all, and I am talking the best in the world here.
Please remember the best guitar players in the world always keep improving, and they always keep looking for something new , maybe a new approach to playing the guitar, or a new sound.A real mature guitarist, should be able to create & invent many new hot licks and run scales inbetween melodies and hot guitar licks.And the best guitarist take it to the next step and mixing chording and hot chord vocings in solo leads.
Below are 5 of my favorite moveable scale patterns which I use in Jazz,rock and my blues guitar playing, they are all major scale patterns with the half steps between these notes in the scales... 3-4 & 7-8 for Major scale Keys.....and 1/2 steps between 2-3 & 6-7 notes of the scale for minor the minor scal key.To find the related Major key to it's minor key....please read on.Example G A B C D E F# G is the scale pattern for the G major key....but by taking the same notes and altering or re-arranging the notes into a different order starting with the E note...we get and Em key..... such as E F# G A B C D E.......take a close look at the notes........they are all the same notes, just in a differnet order.The Key of Em is the related key to G major.......so the scale patterns work together perfectly.Now if you don't know how to find the relate minor key to a major, well it's easy....take the root note and count 6 notes from the root and you have the minor key.So if we take the Key of C major .......and count up 6 notes we get an Am or A minor Key.....Look at these notes and count from C..... C D E F G A.....as I said the 6th note from the root is the related minor key to a Major key.Now with these movable scale patterns, you simple can use each scale pattern for both, Major and minor keys....smiply adust your common tones of where you'll be starting and stopping on.
Each pattern below works for both major and minor scales.Many of you may already play 5 noted pentatonic box patterns and use them for rock, blues guitar leads, but these scale patterns below are far move advanced than the pentatonic boxes and will take much longer to learn.To use the scale patterns below correctly you should already be able to read music and understand a bit of guitar theory.Because you must know where the 1 st - 3rd - 5th and 7th of a scales and also understand how chords are built.And understand it will take take to get your cordination in using these scales.Once you learn these patterns you can link them all together to cover the full neck of the guitar for almost any key you play in.
Today most blues and rock guitarist use only tab guitar to learn to play, it's sad because they also need to learn music notation and guitar thoery to become super adanvanced as a great rock, blues guitar player.
It's my hope that the Rock,Blues Guitar Blog Online will help teach and inform, the younger rock, blues guitar lovers. So please keep checking for more lessons on Rock,blues guitar here on this Internet Blog site......below are the movable,rock, blues and jazz box patterns......

The Best Guitar Strings for playing,Rock,Blues Guitar or even Jazz guitar really depends on the guitar body size, the shape of the guitar, and the style you play.
But for now, lets try to figure out the best set of guitar strings for your acoustic guitar.
In other words we are trying to make your acoustic guitar, sound very acoustical with perfect,Lows,Mids and High tones,that are very brilliant,warm and shimmer and are very well balance,such as the best Martin guitars you hear recorded on records.
Your average guitarist these days, will think only a great guitar such as a Martin,Taylor or Ovation with their top end high price guitars are the only way to go. That the sound of the guitar is all in the rich expensive guitar body.
But this isn't always the truth. If you place the wrong set of strings on a great guitar, it could sound as good as an average guitar with a great set of strings on it.
Most people never think of spending time to research and find the perfect set of guitar strings.
Not only do the guitar strings help make a guitar sound much better, the type and size of guitar pick also changes the sound. Personally I think a Dunlop gray .73 pick is the best all around acoustic pick for both rhythm and lead guitar.That pick is strong enough for leads, yet allows for a beautiful sweeping sound when strumming a guitar.
But lets get back to guitar strings here.
So what is the secret of finding a great set of guitar strings for your guitar....well you first must realize all guitars come in different shapes and sizes, even in the same brand names.
So if you owned lets say 2 Taylor guitars, they both could use 2 totally different sets of guitar strings, due to the shape and deepth of the guitar body.
Here's an example a cut-a -way guitar body versus a full guitar body, the fuller body has a much deeper sound and needs a different set of strings.
So how do we find these sets of guitar strings.....the answer is simple, real simple in fact.
First we must learn to listen, here's the listening trick I tell people......
Pretend that the guitar strings are a 6 band equalizer, or Eq unit like you'd use on a stereo system.You want the guitar to be totally balanced from the High strings, to the mids to the low strings, you don't want so much deep bass that you drown out your high end, but you don't want to loose your bass tone either, and you want the mid strings to shine also.
Most guitars have either too much high end or Bass or unbalanced Mid range, these are your cheaper guitars. The most expensive guitars are built with better balance of tone. This doesn't mean that the most expensive guitars are the loudest , but just the best balanced. Sometimes cheap guitars are really louder than great balanced guitars, because they project a lot of bass or mid tones but don't have great high end sound. These guitars are real boomy and cause a lot of feed back and never sound great.
But there is a way of changing things around even on a cheap guitar, by finding the most perfect set of strings, you can balance out the bad area's and even make a cheap guitar sound professional enough to record with and do a concert.
It will surprise you what a little research can do for you, sure you'll have to try out different sets of guitar strings, and if you do remember to change the strings every 10 days to get he best sound, some of you leave those strings on for months and can't figure out where you went wrong.
To be a professional guitarist you'll need to get your hands and fingers used to playing new strings, and you'll need a set of strings that stay in tune and don't pull and stretch a lot.
So what are the best strings that I have found for acoustic guitar.
Here are my 2 top choices , for deep full body guitars , I like" Martin Marquee " 80__20 Light gauge phosphorus bronze strings. And for cut a way Guitars - I like "Martin SP" 80__20 Light gauge strings. I really have never found a better acoustic set of guitar strings than these.
I know for sure I'd stay away from Gibson acoustic strings because they don't stay in tune very well, and the tone is nowhere near the Martin strings, also Fender does have some good sounding strings, still not in the class of the Martins.
One trick I didn't mention is the fact that a few professional guitarist use strings sometimes from 2 or 3 different guitar sets, and the reason again is because of better balance and trying to create a tone from a guitar no one else really has. This is nothing new, but few guitarist even think to try this. I will say it cost a lot more to do this, but don't fool yourselfs, the pro's look for every advantage. Also remember this fact, there are many professional guitarist who play no better than some of you reading this, the only reason they sound better and get contract is because they are more creative in creating a better sounding guitar, by using sneaky little tricks and by having the best sound equipment they can afford.
Truthfully I think every guitarist, who has ever dreamed of turning pro, should become a dreamer, and search their hearts and see if they need to upgrade thier musical instruments and even start to save for that new guitar, and have a good solid plan and don't be upset if it takes you a few years to realize your dreams. I know ever guitar I owned I dreamed of owning,untill I saved the money up, and it was worth the wait.
But I will tell you this,even with the best guitars money can buy, you still need the best strings, now I am not saying the most expensive strings - just the best strings, I love Martin Marquee 80 - 20 Light Gauge strinsg and they only cost at Guitar Center about $7.00 dollars. Yet I think they sound and record better on a Full Body Guitar than any other strings ever made that cost twice as much.These Light Gauge strings made by Martin are .012 to .054, just thought I better tell you this.
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