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Choosing a Guitar

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Summary: Choosing a guitar, whether an electric guitar or acoustic guitar, requires playing the guitar first, listening to the guitar through an amp and finding a guitar with the right sound for the music that will be played. Avoid buying a guitar through the Internet with advice from an experienced guitarist and instructor in this free video on picking a guitar.

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By Mike Prizzi
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Michael Prizzi is the guitarist for the hard rock band Pipebomb, a band that has opened for popular acts such as Seven Dust, Judas Priest, Mushroom Head, Anthrax and many others....read more

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"In this clip, we're going to discuss how to choose a guitar, electric-acoustic, for your purpose style of music, rock, metal, blues, whatever your choice. This is a ESP horizon, 6-string with a hard tail. Every guitar is different, so when I would never buy a guitar unless you played it first. Never buy a guitar on-line. Every guitar is different, for example, this is a black ESP horizon 6-string with a hard tail, made in the same week as this purple identical guitar, everything's identical. This guitar sounds ten times better than this guitar. It's just every piece of what is different and pretty much that's what you have to go buy. You want to hear it through an amp, you want to play it. Never make any quick decisions, it's an investment in your future and it's the way to go. Over here, we have an acoustic ovation celebrity guitar. This is round back, hollow body, very popular. It's a nice beat around, not too expensive. I feel looking for something maybe just a place something at home, nothing too crazy, this is what you want. Ovation electric-acoustic, plugs in the back, very easy, change the strings to the top, nothing too complicated. Great for beginners. Also, if you're into playing heavier music, you might want to get a de-tuned sound. This is a drop 6, Yamaha Drop 6 baritone guitar. A lot of different band would use something like this to get a heavier tone, more modern rock metal sound, has Dimarzio pick-ups, hard tail, strings easily inserted through the back, locking dispersal tuners, nice. Just for that perfect sound, he is just guitar of the studio quite often. Has a nice dry sound, passive pick-ups when all the ESP is all had EMG pick-ups, so pick-ups matter as well. You might have a beautiful guitar with terrible pick-ups until you invest the money in the pick-ups the guitar is not going to get to its full potential."

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