By Bruce Lamb

http://www.TheGuitarWorkShop.com

A guitar is probably the most popular string instrument of today. One common thing about modern teenagers who want are creative, have an artistic setup or just want to be ‘cool’; is that they love guitar as a playing instrument. The guitar has generally six strings and is popularly one of the two broad classifications: acoustic and electric, though it can have much more strings attached to it and can come in various types such as a Hawaiian guitar and it can have many mechanisms such as a double neck guitar etc.

But those are for advanced users! Typically a guitar may look stylish, trendy or cool, but guitar lessons for beginners can be tricky. If you want to learn to play guitar for a living or simply as a hobby and you are serious about it, you need to know that playing guitar is not easy, contrary to what it looks on the screen for the greatest guitar players playing it as a piece of cake.

Construction

In case of guitar lessons for beginners, it is important to understand the general construction of a guitar. The guitar has three main parts: the body, the neck and the strings; although number of strings, length of the neck and size of the body tends to vary from guitar to guitar. Strings are attached on the fretboard (a piece of wood on the neck) and some frets run orthogonal to the strings; while each fret produces different sounds.

Other parts of the mechanism may be understood later but for now it would be interesting o know what is the difference between two main types of guitars. An electrical guitar relies on electronic amplification to make their sound audible, while an acoustic guitar uses only acoustic methods to make the sound proceed via the strings. We can hear the sound form an acoustic guitar from the hole (a round hole or F hole) that is inscribed inside the body of the guitar.

Where to learn

If you want to learn guitar, the materials and resources will never be inadequate. Search for the keywords ‘guitar lessons for beginners’ or ‘guitar workshops’ and thousands of websites will be returned for free. Also if you want to be personally taught, you can avail the guitar lessons that are given in exchange for a reasonable amount of money. So the more important decision that has to be made is not where, but what!

What to learn

Guitar comes in a diversified array of classifications and culture. So one needs to decide what to learn; for example: learn acoustic guitar or electric, learn to finger pick (playing with bare fingers) or flat pick (playing with the use of a plectrum/pick) etc. and moreover the genres of music such as blues, rock, pop, jazz etc.

Learning a guitar may not be easy but once learnt, it is a great friend to the end of your days.

If you are a guitar player or band member or make a living with anything that can be broken on an airplane or flight on any airline this article is for you. I invented a case that is 100% used and intended for protecting anything if you use airline travel. Although if you travel or ship anything on UPS, FedX or other shipping companies please listen up this article will save you money and grief if you are traveling with something that you don’t want destroyed while traveling.

First I’ll give me some of my background. I have been a videographer for 23 years and am also a guitar player. I was traveling with a group of well know acoustic guitar players and was in Las Vegas at a the (NATPE) trade show. This is a trade show where companies buy and sell television programs. I was promoting a show concept on learning to play guitar and had these guys playing in my booth. The name of the show is “The Guitar TV Workshop“ which is now an online lesson website were you can by DVD guitar lessons or take lessons on line. There are hundreds of hours of lessons on learning to play guitar on Acoustic Blues to Hawaiian Slack Key, or Ki ho ‘alu. The web site is
http://www.TheGuitarWorkShop.com The Artist or Instructors playing in my booth were
John Cephas, Martin Simpson, Woody Mann, and Orville Johnson all award winning players.

When I arrived in Las Vegas and went to get my bags, camera equipment, and guitars everything looked fine. I went to the hotel checked in and we hit the town. When I returned to my room I thought I would play a bit of guitar. That’s when I found the problem. I grabbed my National Steel guitar and when I started to play it just went thunk. The bridge got pushed in from something heavy being put on top of the case or a baggage handler inside crawling over it. The cone got pushed in as well and when I called the airline they said I only had 4 hour to file a claim. Or I got your screwed.

That evening we all went to dinner and we all talked about the problems of traveling with our guitars and me my photographic and video equipment. All the instructors were using the same type of travel guitar cases. They were heavy cases around 28 lbs. each and very expensive over $750 and up. The thing is that they all said that these were the best out there. When I asked them have they ever had their guitars broken in them they all said yes. That’s when I decided that something had to be done. I wanted to design a case that could protect your instrument or camera gear and be affordable.

After 3 years of research and trial and error I designed the Clam Guitar Flight Case, and started http://www.CaseXtreme.com . I knew that one of the major problems with every other case out in the world was that they were too heavy. The old story “the heavier they are the harder they fall” made total sense to me, I knew that to invent a case that would work needed to be light in weight and have adequate shock resistances built into the design.

One day the light bulb hit me like a ton of bricks. I had just received a DVD player in the mail that I ordered. I order stuff all the time from a company out of state so I don’t have to pay state sales tax. For large ticket items this can save you a bunch of money. Anyway this equipment had Styrofoam pads on each corner in a cardboard box that had space around it so nothing is touching the equipment.

So now I had a very sturdy material and I found the toughest foam money can buy and I designed the Clam by CaseXtreme. http://www.CaseXtreme.com I designed the foam suspension system or foam C-Pads that go around your guitar case or gig bag and found the shock absorption system was born. Here is a link to a video on my site of me  throwing my guitar off my roof top in the Clam case onto the pavement. http://casextreme.com/newest_video.html

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