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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:06 pm
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It's a great guitar for beginners, but I believe that once you feel you're shifting up a level, you probably need to get a better guitar that will be able to showcase your progress...

Advanced players can make any guitar sound good, but if you're an intermediate player I would not recommend the Bullet!

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One day I want to get a Strat. I'm thinking the Squier Deluxe unless I find a steal on a MIM or Hwy one or something. Thanks

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Post subject: Re: Be Gentle Please - Total Beginner / Affinity
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:19 pm
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blackjack1 wrote:
OK, now please be gentle with me. Please, no too technical terms as I am a total beginner and have to confess it will all go over my head!!!

I am a 43 year old lady who has always loved the guitar. I started learning to play when I was about 18 and then the friend who was teaching me got married and moved away and I did not continue. However, I do not know if it was the result of some midlife crisis or just an unsatisfied want in life but I decided a couple of years ago to try and start it again. I got my husband to retrieve my old acoustic out of the loft, dusted it off and played around with it. However, I found that the neck is just too big for me to comfortably get my hand around and decided that what I really wanted was an electric guitar.

After much deliberation I ended up buying a red Squier Affinity starter pack. However, I am a total beginner so was not really able to sit down in the shop and play like a 'proper' guitarist so worked on the basis that it was a budget price, came with an amp and as it carried Fender's name could not be a totally bad choice.

So, firstly do you feel that as a lady of my age, am I too old to be taking up a totally new instrument like the guitar and then secondly, have I made a mistake in my choice of guitar. I realise it is very budget price and as such not going to be fantastic but some opinions would be good. It is an Indoniesian built one, Sr No IC070602635.

Basically, any help, advice, tips or hints you can give me would be very much appreciated. I currently do not have anyone to teach me, but am looking around for someone as I cannot seem to teach myself like some lucky folk.

I am very influenced by Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton and Gary Moore (plus the maybe less well known John Peppard).

Thank you for any ideas or anything.
No you are not to old, come on that is great to hear. I am 52 and just started to play guitar a few yrs. ago. its never to late to do anything you dream of in life!! As far as the guitar goes any thing will work at first until you find your groove and start playing better. i know guys that bought $1000 guitars to start on and end up not staying with it. The main thing is to play everyday even if its 15 to 20 mins if you are busy. I started on a J Reynolds guitar i bought for my daughter and she did not stay with it. Its the best thing I did and now I have the time as I retired from a major co.after 32 yrs. Stay with it and you will be playing like a pro in not to long. Remember the saying about you only have to know 3 chords to play a song!!!


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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:21 pm
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jaknzax wrote:
Wild Rose how do you like the Squier Strat Bullet?


I know the question wasn't aimed at me but I'd like to toss my $.02 worth in here anyways.

I actually had 2 Bullets that I sold last year...the main reason I sold them was...well...the wife, tolerant as she is, was starting to get in my crap about the number of guitars around the house. I wanted to get this '85 MIJ Squier Strat I had found at a guitar shop near my father's house and the wife said that I needed to get rid of a couple of the others first, so the Bullet's had to go. That said, both of them were actually very good little guitars for what they were and they are absolutely excellent entry level instruments...far better than the $100 guitars around back in the mid-80's when I first started playing. My single biggest gripe about them was simply the tuning keys...the bullet's really use cheap, "chrome covered" tuners as apposed to decent sealed machine heads.

The first one I had bought was an '08 sunburst. I had really gotten this guitar as an impulse buy...I had some left over insurance money from a car accident, so I really wanted to see how good or bad these things were. That particular instrument was really quite decent to say the least...3 piece basswood body, decent finish, played well...even the pickups really weren't half bad. With a few upgrades, that actually could have been a really sweet little guitar!

The second one was an older "hardtail" (aka, no trem...bridge was solid to the body) that I had picked up used for $65. She had been a bit beaten and abused (looked like someone was trying to do a Stevie Ray Vaughn on her)...call me a sucker for hard luck cases! LOL!!! Now that one was still decent enough, sounded good and played well but it did in fact have a rather "cheap" plywood/laminate body as apposed to "real" wood. I think the hardtail offset the body though as it did have fairly decent sustain.

Now I can't personally verify this but I have read in a couple of places that with the bullets, -if- it's a sunburst, they get a real wood body but if it's a solid color (black, blue, pink...) they get the plywood/laminate...so given a choice between the two, I'd suggest getting the burst any day. Inexpensive laminates can be ok for guitar bodies but they are often prone to problems with cracking around the neck pocket and most of them really have no degree of resonance at all.

So for a person just starting, a Bullet really is...in my always and ever so humble opinion of course, a really wonderful place to start. I would also say that the "right" bullet is well worth doing a few mods on and even keeping later as a back up as you get in to better instruments. I wanted to mention this because it seems that a lot of folks will get an inexpensive first guitar and then sell it off or trade it as they move up the latter...and most of the time, even if the guitar was really a piece of crap, they end up regretting it. In my case, I actually have somewhere around 25 guitars so letting go of a couple of inexpensive instruments to get one that I've wanted for many years wasn't really a big deal for me but if a person has something like a Bullet as their first guitar, I really recommend hanging on to it as you move on...if nothing else they also make great guitars for learning other things on such as setups, mods and such.

Okies...again, just my $.02 worth,
Jim


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Playing guitar is just about the best thing ever. As to your second question, you have an awesome guitar! My Affinity pretty much smokes just about every one of my buddy's guitars, and their guitar cost almost 3 times as much! Price does not equal quality! Just keep playing! Good luck!

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my brother's squire was just a replica.. after a few months of usage, bam! so out of tune...


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Post subject: Re: Be Gentle Please - Total Beginner / Affinity
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 1:58 pm
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blackjack1 wrote:
I am a 43 year old lady who has always loved the guitar. I started learning to play when I was about 18 and then the friend who was teaching me got married and moved away and I did not continue. However, I do not know if it was the result of some midlife crisis or just an unsatisfied want in life but I decided a couple of years ago to try and start it again. I got my husband to retrieve my old acoustic out of the loft, dusted it off and played around with it. However, I found that the neck is just too big for me to comfortably get my hand around and decided that what I really wanted was an electric guitar.


Just so you know you are not alone. We have similar stories. I started taking lessons at 24, but because I had a young son, I had to use the money elsewhere. I am almost 43 and started taking lessons again at a school. I tried to learn on my own with DVD/CD/Books, but couldn't get that far. The school really helped me get further than I could have imagined. Your husband's Guitar is it a Classical Guitar? Because the neck is fatter. I don't find a difference in the size of my electric and my acoustic.

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