Hello everyone! I'm 63 and completely new at this. My guitar should be arriving early next week. I know I am in for a challange but I'm am looking forward to it. I have gone through guitar fundamentals I but now I am anxious to get started. I bought an Aklot acoustic. Never heard of Aklot before but I saw a good professional review on Youtube. Hopefully I made the right choice.
~ Mike
Hi Mike, welcome!
Enjoy the journey and congratulations on a new guitar!
Hi Mike, bet you can't wait till that guitar gets to ya! I will give you a little unsolicited advice about it, and this is based on my own recent experience with an inexpensive new guitar. When the world opens up again, it would be very useful to have a professional "setup" done on your guitar. Your new guitar is very likely to have high "action" and medium gauge strings that can make it much harder to play than it needs to be, especially for us beginners. I toiled away for 6 weeks before I got my guitar set up. It cost about $70 including new strings. The guitar probably retails for about $100 so the setup cost almost as much as the guitar, but it made a huge difference and was well worth the money. If the guitar setup makes it hard to play then your learning experience will be more difficult and painful than necessary.
Anyway, welcome and good luck![br][br]
Dave...
It takes as long as it takes unless you quit - then it takes forever and you will never get there.
Mike, good luck to you. And it's good to have some youngsters joining here.
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Originally Posted by: DavesGuitarJourneyHi Mike, bet you can't wait till that guitar gets to ya! I will give you a little unsolicited advice about it, and this is based on my own recent experience with an inexpensive new guitar. When the world opens up again, it would be very useful to have a professional "setup" done on your guitar. Your new guitar is very likely to have high "action" and medium gauge strings that can make it much harder to play than it needs to be, especially for us beginners. I toiled away for 6 weeks before I got my guitar set up. It cost about $70 including new strings. The guitar probably retails for about $100 so the setup cost almost as much as the guitar, but it made a huge difference and was well worth the money. If the guitar setup makes it hard to play then your learning experience will be more difficult and painful than necessary.
Anyway, welcome and good luck![br][br]
Dave...
Dave, thanks for the pointers. The strings are actually extra light (.010 - .050) I won't know what the action is nor will I know if it is low or high. So having someone else looking at it would be a good idea. You are right about me being anxious. I keep checking the tracking on the shipment. It's supposed to be here Monday or Tuesday. Hoping for Monday of course!
~Mike
Originally Posted by: SchmidtrockHi Mike, welcome!
Enjoy the journey and congratulations on a new guitar!
Thank you!
Originally Posted by: matonanjin2Mike, good luck to you. And it's good to have some youngsters joining here.
Thank you!
Hello Mike,
I'm 66+ and still enjoy the challenge of learning guitar, digging into the site
where i can find a lot of things about practising and improving.
Congrats for the guitar and good luck.
Robert
Welcome! See you in class!
-Lisa
