Choosing you first instrument can be a bit difficult.
How do you know if it’s a good guitar when you can’t play? The guy in the shop could make a Mickey Mouse guitar/bass sound good.
Top Tip: Don’t spend too much on your first instrument until you learn enough to actually play a bit!
Don’t be fooled all that shines isn’t gold.
If you spray paint and lacquer a piece of chip board it will look good. Some of these really amazing offers of Guitar or Bass with stand, tuner, amp and learning DVD all for £100 are too good to be true.
Some are no more than compressed cardboard spray painted and lacquered. As for the electrics some have complained that they are so low quality they die after a few months.
There may be genuine deals out there but some are only good enough for someone who gives it a go and packs in after a month.
Don’t be frightened to buy second hand!
If you buy a brand new guitar for £120 it’ll be worth £50 or £60 selling it second hand on ebay. Keep that in mind. How many guitars are bought tried out once or twice and land on ebay with someone wanting a quick sale.
Top Guitar/Bass’ hold their value and will be worth more in the future.
From the age of 4 I knew I wanted to play guitar. At age 14 I saw
Steve Vai in the film Crossroads (Not the Britney Spears Film Ggggrrrr) I wanted to be able to do that and nothing was going to stop me.
So if you know for definite that nothing is going to stop you achieving on guitar buying cheap may be false economy. If so buy a decent instrument.
