#1 Buying Your First Guitar (in the Philippines) – BB36 Beginner Guitar Course (lesson 1/15)
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make your first ever guitar purchase i'm not going to be telling you exactly which guitar
to get because a lot of that is going to be your preference and what you need so instead i'm
just going to be giving you tips on how to choose a guitar that's that's right for you so the first
thing you need to do is to think about what type of guitar you want to get now there are three
main types of guitars the first one is a classic guitar so these are some of the oldest guitars i
think you can usually see them in any any type of classic music they have nylon strings and i'll
show a picture up here somewhere so you can see what what that kind of looks like so that's it
um and another the next one is an electric guitar i'm sure you've seen a lot of electric guitars
before these guitars they don't actually produce a lot of sound on their own so they need to
be plugged into an amp or a music interface to so you can hear them well and you can add all
those effects and things and the last type of guitar is the acoustic guitars which looks exactly
like this this is the most common type of guitar i'm sure you've seen a lot around it's
essentially a wooden body with a neck steel strings and some tuning pegs up here
so that's an acoustic guitar now when it comes to acoustic guitars there are actually
two types this one is just an acoustic guitar as you see there's no no strings attached there's
no wires or any electronics there and the second type is the acoustic electric guitar now
that one has some electronics inside so i have a nuke here that's an acoustic electric
i know it's not a guitar but this is this is what it's going to look like is what it's going
to have if you get an acoustic electric there's going to be a an output jack here with sometimes
a slot here where you can put a 9-volt battery to power up the this electronics here so you have
some adjustments here you have a volume uh base treble and this one even has a built-in tuner and
somewhere in there there's a pickup that picks up the sound from the strings and it converts it
into uh electronic signals which you can then use you can plug it into an amp just like the electric
guitar plug into an amp or plug it into your interface that's perfect for if you're doing
performances gigs or you want to do recording an acoustic electric guitar be perfect
for that but if you're just uh learning how to play the guitar then you don't
need any of that you just need a plain old acoustic guitar this will do perfectly fine
and this is what i recommend for beginners because you're also going to save some money because on
the acoustic electric guitars because of all the electronics the price goes up a little bit so
if you want if you want to save a little bit you just get yourself a plain old acoustic guitar
okay so another very important thing you need to prepare before you make your first ever guitar
purchase is your budget acoustic guitars can range anywhere from 1 500 pesos all the way to
like 50 000 plus pesos so you need to decide how much you can afford and how much you're
willing to spend on your first acoustic guitar for me the sweet spot when it comes to uh first uh
beginner acoustic guitars is around eight thousand pesos because in that in that price point you're
going to get some really good sounding guitars they're going to last like they can even
last a lifetime if you maintain them well now if that is above your budget that's completely
fine because you can find you can still find great guitars below 8 000 below that sweet spot and yeah
i'll give you some tips later on on how to choose like a cheaper guitar some tips and how to buy
a cheaper guitar and if your budget goes above like if you want to spend more then why not if
you can afford it then why not but the thing there is if it's your first ever guitar and
you're not so sure you're not so sure you're going to be playing even in the next five years or
so then maybe that's not such a good idea it might just turn out to be a big waste and don't ever
think that getting something cheaper is going to somehow slow down your learning process
because it really doesn't matter how much your guitar is um i started with a
guitar it's worth 1500 pesos and with that guitar i learned all my basic chords i learned how to
do some finger picking i even learned some solos just with that guitar that cost one five so yeah
it doesn't really matter that much like how much you put into a guitar it's not going to affect
how fast you learn how to play guitar so yeah just keep in mind uh set your budget because at the
end of the day it's it's really up to you how much you're willing to spend on your first guitar so
yeah set the budget okay so the next thing is to decide where you're going to buy your guitar so
there are two main places you can buy it in store that's either a music shop or a guitar factory if
you live near one or you can buy it online now uh the preferred option would be an actual music shop
because you can actually look at the guitar you can feel it for yourself and see if you like how
how how it sounds how it feels in your lap and you can also ask the people in the store what they
recommend for beginners but online is actually becoming more popular now because uh for one thing
um it solves availability issues so if the stores nearby the stores in your city do not have the
guitar you want you can easily go online and get that exact guitar so that's one reason you have
more options available online and number two um just recently the covet precautions people don't
want to go out so yeah buying guitar online just at home could be a good idea so yeah decide where
you want to buy if it's in store or if it's online okay so let's talk a little bit about brands um
because a lot of people they're buying guitar for the first time especially they want to know
like what's the best brand for this guitar um and if you if you want to go that direction that's
completely fine uh some some recommendations i have would be uh in the mid-range so
that's like the 8 000 faster the sweet spot i would recommend yamaha that range fender um
epiphone what else would i recommend uh this one this is uh donner i got this and you get this
in amazon actually it's also in that range and it's also a really good high quality guitar
the reason why some people uh prefer getting good brands is because they can be confident
that they're getting a good instrument because i mean the brand is very reputable so like yamaha
for example they've been around for many years and people just love the name they have excellent uh
music instruments so you can kind of be confident on whatever yamaha guitar you're getting
but you don't necessarily have to get a brandy guitar there are other brands that
are less popular that are also really good but if it's your first ever guitar just try
to stick with the budget and just make sure you're getting from repeatable stores you don't
really need to worry too much about getting the brand so yeah it's just something to keep in
mind again for recommendations in the mid-range for me it will be yamaha fender um epiphone
this one donner and actually uh fernando guitars i'm not sure if it's a local brand or a china
brand but i see them a lot in like jb music stores they're actually good um i've used one on a few
uh performances and they're quite good uh they're well built they sound good so there's another
brand you can look into if you're in the mid range for the higher end of course you
have your tailor you have your martin my favorite one is martin yeah those are
your higher end guitars if you know four of those for your first ever guitar then why not
get those um on the lower end uh some brands i know i know rj uh rj guitar i haven't actually
tried them but i know they get uh good reviews rg guitars and some of their guitars are in the
lower end i mean the lower price range and also i know davies is quite popular in shoppi it
gets thousands of purchases and four to five star reviews so if you're if your budget is in the
in that range you could definitely check tvs out anyway i'll leave a list uh in the description
below i'll give you some brand recommendations for the higher end the mid range and the lower end so
yeah just check that out in the description below when it comes to buying your guitar in-store
uh the most common place to buy would be a music store the most popular ones are jb music we
have lyric we have rj guitar you have audiophile components those are some of the most popular
music stores out there these are usually located in malls big malls and you might even find in
other locations uh i can put a list below if you want to look of good music stores popular music
stores now if you're fortunate you might live in a location where there's a local guitar factory
nearby that'll be a very good thing you can you can look there for your first guitar but then
you also have to kind of be careful especially if you don't know much about the factory uh try
to gather information before you go shopping there make sure that the customers are happy make sure
they're doing uh like they're producing good guitars because some factories i mean we never
know there's so many factories out there some are really good and others they they overprice
their guitars they don't make very good guitars and they sell it at higher prices so you know
you don't want to buy your first guitar there so yeah just make sure if you're buying in a
factory do your research do your homework and yeah so that's the reason why it's a little
easier to buy from popular music stores is because they've already built a reputation and you can
also find uh big brands in music stores usually so that's just a difference but yeah i i'm not
stopping you from going to a local factory because my first guitar was from a local guitar factory
and it was really good it lasted a long time so just check just check the reputation
check what people are saying about them the quality of output they produce so once
you've chosen your guitar after browsing a while it's this is especially true for less expensive
guitars there are some things you want to check before you pay to make sure you're bringing home
a good guitar so these are really simple things because i'm assuming you don't know much about the
guitar yet since it's your first guitar so just a few simple things to check before you take it
home the first one is to check the all the corners all the bindings make sure there are no cracks
or i mean i'm sure you can tell what what uh what the sturdy one looks like and what something
films he looks like so just make sure to check the bindings all around the guitar check the
neck especially this is very important because sometimes on really cheap guitars the neck is very
soft so check for any small cracks around there because this is usually where it cracks the first
time check up here bindings anything like that and you also want to check uh the tuning
pegs because on less expensive guitars these are not very good so a quick test would be
to just give it a little turn just make sure it's not too tight or it's not too loose this one this
one is seems good don't turn it too much because you might break the string and you'll have to
pay for that so you just turn it a little bit just make sure it's not too tight or too loose
and this is going to take the guitar out of tune but at least you know your tuning pegs work so
just check check all of that and the last one is because in less expensive guitar and cheaper
guitars uh sometimes the intonation is bad so it's how do i i'm not i'm not an expert in that
but one thing to check is to see if the string sounds the same here and on the 12th fret
if you just slightly touch it very slightly so as you can see here this one sounds the same it's the same note different octave so that's how to tell if your guitar neck is not
bent either way like it has good intonation so those are just three simple things to check before
you take your guitar home and on more expensive guitars you don't really need to check that but
you can it's still a good practice but if you're if you're taking home like a less expensive guitar
then please check that because those are usually the things that that go first um the neck cracks
the tuning pegs don't work anymore so you can't play the guitar in tune for a long time and the
neck is bent so your uh your chords will sound fine up here but when you go down or when you go
up it's off it's out of tune so yeah check those three things before you take your guitar home when
you buy our guitar online you have many options sometimes you have a lot more options because
you can easily browse through different stores different uh like shopping websites and you can
choose from there but there's also some risk because you can't see the guitar you can't hold
it you can't hear it if you're buying it online so you have to pay for it first and wait for
it to arrive and that's the only time you can get to see it get to listen and feel how
it plays so yeah there's some risk there so what i recommend is to when you're buying online
is to always get from one of the reputable stores i mentioned earlier again i'll list a list
put a full list below so you can check it out because a lot of these stores actually have
online stores as well so jb music has an online store yupanko which i bought that guitar from they
have an online store uh lyric has an online store and these uh these companies these music stores
they not only have their own online stores but they also sell in sharpie and lazada so you
can usually find uh their own shopping mall or lazada mall pages there and there's less less risk
buying from those because you know it's from these reputable music stores so yeah that's that's
where you want to look most of the time but if you're looking for like a lower cost guitar or
an unbranded guitar then there are two tips that i recommend doing so this is for example you're
searching in lazada or you're searching in shoppi for for a new guitar within your budget
you just make sure that number one it has at least 500 purchases that that's the
number of people who bought that exact product and that the rating is at least four to five stars
because at least you know that 500 people are quite satisfied with that product so don't get
anything with no ratings even though it looks like a really good deal just make sure to stick stay
safe long just stay within that 500 at least 500 purchases and then four to five stars the i think
that's the that's the safest way to buy in either lazada or shop and yeah i did i did my own search
and i tried to look for cheap guitars there and i found a few that i'm going to leave a link to
below uh i found it uh the brand davies is popular they have like thousands of sales and they're
quite the ratings quite good it's like four to five stars also so if that's your budget
then check it out definitely it's uh i left it in the link below okay so let's talk about uh
the accessories so what accessories do you need with your first guitar the quick answer to that is
you don't need any so you can start with just the guitar and you'll be completely fine but if you
want to add some accessories then the first one i would recommend like the bare minimum in the bare
minimum category will be a gig bag so a big bag it's just a guitar bag so some of these
will be padded some are not any gig bag is better than no kickback because uh it protects
your guitar from bumps scratches and even moisture so if you're getting one accessory get yourself
a gift bag protect your guitar the next category is the basic category so it's a
gig bag a guitar pick and a capo so you can get something like this this is a
package that has a cable and a few picks so yeah that's the basic category the next one is
the standard category i'm just making this up um they're just basically uh sets of accessories you
can get um so in my standard category you'll be getting everything in the previous uh categories
including a guitar strap to remove the plastic so uh this guitar strap is going to help you
play standing up or if you're like if you do performances that'll be really useful and an
extra set of strings so in case your string breaks you can easily replace it or if you get rusted
you can also replace it and so that's the standard category and then the level up category you'll
want to throw in so the level of category you'll want to throw in uh an electronic tuner so this
one is just a small device here you turn it on um you just clip it to the head of your
guitar and this is going to help you tune so you just play a string it's going
to tell you what note you're in so let's go yeah that makes tuning a lot easier a
lot faster more convenient versus tuning with your ear or tuning with like an app on your phone this
one's a lot more convenient and you also throw in a microfiber cleaning cloth a microfiber is
good for your guitar because even if you really rub down and the finish you're not going to
damage it so yeah that's the the level up uh category of accessories to get now you
need to remember that when you purchase a guitar sometimes they come with accessories so
you might not need to get any accessories so just make sure to check what your guitar comes
with uh some some come with like a whole pack when i when i got this guitar it came with a whole
pack of everything i just mentioned so that's just a good package um but again you really don't need
any accessories uh to start playing the guitar okay so that is it for this video i hope that
after watching this you're now more confident to go to the store or go online and make your
first ever guitar purchase and yeah if this was helpful in any way please give it a thumbs
up and the next video is going to be about how to use the guitar you just bought so stay tuned
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