________________________________________ On Learning to Play Guitar If you decide you want to play guitar‚ there are a surprising number of strange obstacles in your way. I hear from a lot of people who say "I am going to get guitar lessons for my kid" without realizing what a thorny and complex thing it is. Piano or fiddle lessons are kind of routine. Untold numbers of people are blaming themselves for not getting going or losing interest in their guitar lessons‚ when what they were being taught was not
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Fuzzy Automatic Guitar Tuner Kourosh Rahnamai‚ Brian Cox‚ Kevin Gorman Department of Electrical Engineering Western New England College Springfield‚ MA 01119‚ USA {krahnama‚bcox0‚kgorman}@wnec.edu receive of the other PC’s serial connection and visa versa. This allows the controller to be downloaded to the target PC and provides a two-way communications between the host and target PCs. Abstract – An automatic guitar tuner was successfully designed and developed using a fuzzy logic controller
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Strings: For a common acoustic guitar‚ there are six strings. These strings‚ either made of nylon or steel string acoustics‚ are tuned low E‚ A‚ D‚ G‚ B‚ and high E respectively. Subsequently‚ four factors determine the pitch when the strings are plucked: mass‚ tension‚ length‚ and mode of vibration. For instance‚ if you were to have a heavy string‚ it would take a longer time to vibrate‚ thus‚ giving it a lower frequency. And vice versa. However‚ frequency is not only limited to string
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The Difference Between Piano and Guitar Playing Difference of Piano Playing and Guitar Playing If you are undecided on which instrument you’d prefer your kid to learn‚ here are a number of technical and non-technical aspects to consider. Gender A quick look at enrollment statistics would immediately tell you that most piano students are girls while most guitar students are boys. This doesn’t mean that your daughter shouldn’t learn the guitar or vice versa‚ but you should be aware that
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The History of the Electric Guitar The desire to increase the sound of the guitar existed long before the development of electrical amplifiers and speakers. Musical performances in the 19th century were characterized by ever-larger concert settings and ensembles. Musicians needed louder and more powerful instruments‚ which became possible by using new materials and designs. The introduction of steel strings in the 19th century meant not only greater volume‚ but greater tension on instruments
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Manufacturers The instrument I picked to research was the Guitar. Here is a little history of the guitar. The repertoire of the guitar spans over four centuries‚ including its ancestors the baroque guitar. The guitar appears to be derived from the earlier instruments known in ancient central Asia as the tar. This claimed to be the root of the name of the guitar. Guitar music became very popular in Spain during the 19th century. The guitar came to prominence largely through the efforts of the Spanish
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Learning Guitar - Beginner Guitar Lesson | | Part 1: Guitar Lesson One | | | | The web has a vast number of resources available for learning about guitar. You can learn how to play songs‚ how to repair your broken instrument‚ how to play fancy scales‚ and much more. The trouble is‚ there just aren’t many GOOD guitar lessons available to someone looking to start playing guitar. These guitar lessons are designed for people who own (or have borrowed) a guitar‚ but don’t yet know the first thing
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experienced”? Brandon Staab Marketing 320 (002557) Michael B. Zeibell Section 10 C.F Martin is a guitar company which has constructed acoustic instruments for 174 years. The company started when Christian Frederick Martin moved from Germany to New York City in 1833 with the dream of producing acoustic guitars. On 196th Hudson Street his dream became reality‚ and Martin guitars were being constructed. Because of the weak music industry in the 1830’s‚ Martin grew through a variety of
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Email suggestions and lesson requests to admin@guitarchalk.com. Helping people learn guitar is often thought of as a fairly fluid exercise‚ without a linear path to follow. It’s true that some of what is covered in a given guitar lesson (particularly the early ones with a new student) has more to do with where that student is at in terms of their skill-set and what kind of guitar player they want to become. But if you take away those two variables‚ there is a teaching structure that can and
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Comparison and Contrast of the Mel Bay and Hal Leonard Guitar Methods As I continue to pursue towards my undergraduate degree in music education‚ I stumbled across Professor Kunkel and his Guitar class for music education majors. The material for the class includes an acoustic guitar and two method books for guitar. The first book given to us was Mel Bay’s Guitar Class Method Volume 1. The second book was Guitar Method Book 1 by Hal Leonard. Each book has many similarities and just as many or
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