I must have tested 30 guitars in 3 different shops and all of them have frets vibrating on the bass strings (usually on the 2nd or 3rd fret and sometimes on 6 7th 8th etc) there was only one guitar that I found that had the perfect neck and it was "STAGG SCL-60 TCE-BLK " the issue is her body is thin, its an electro classic and I have no desire to deal with cables and amps to make it sound louder.
On the Stagg the strings are really close to the frets (and there are absolutely no vibrating sounds ) does anyone know any and I mean any guitar that has this type of neck where its easy to press the strings on any fret and when pressed they arent hitting the metal part on the next fret making that bad vibrating sound but that its a simple classical guitar edit: budget is 450 dollars

I am a fan of the classes by Taiwanese guitarist Dr Yifang Ko. I have a question while watching this chromatic scale practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_r6rkMS7X4&list=PLgQiPs7dcZpRrpynpd269R4R9PU9nhS7R&index=69 . At 2:30, Dr Ko says that fingers should not stick to the fretboard, and when playing the next ascending notes, the fingers that have finished playing the previous notes should be lifted. This sounds confusing to me. I know there is a minimalist principle in guitar playing, which is to use the least amount of finger movement. According to that principle, when doing an ascending chromatic scale, the fingers that have finished playing the previous notes should move as little as possible when the next note is played. When doing descending scales, the movement is exactly the opposite. According to the minimalist principle, it is best to press all four fingers down in advance and then release them one by one. However, in the video, I can see that when Dr Ko plays the descending scale, the four fingers are initially in the air and then pressed down one by one.

My question is: Is Dr Ko's method in the video just for practicing finger independence, or are scales in actual pieces also played this way? I would like to hear the opinions of other professional guitarists.

Does anyone know of any restaurants or wine bars in London that have instrumental guitar?

I have a classical guitar from the eighteen hundreds but one thing I noticed with it is that it only has 7 frets and the rest of the neck is fretless. Does anyone know why this is?

Today I acquired a new Japanese Classical from the early 70s. As you can see on the picture, there is a visible discolouration on the Soundboard. It's only visible when the light hits it from the right angles.

Can somebody tell me what's the cause of this?

And, because of the discolouration, I am now unsure if it's a ceder top.

I have been itching to upgrade from my Yamaha C-80 which I have had since 2006 or so. I went looking on the local online marketplace and found what seems like it could be a crazy deal: a Ryoji Matsuoka M70 with a hard case and music stand (which I had also been wanting a new one of) for $400.

The seller thinks it’s from the 60’s but I am not so sure; I don’t know a ton about these guitars but from what I’ve been able to dig up it seems old, but not that old. I do know that the serial number is <10000. Anybody know when they started making the M70, or any kind of resource on the history of these guitars?

Hi. I'm a complete beginner and just purchased a C5 from a local store. I want to ask is the nut of the C5 glued onto the neck out of factory? I loosened all strings and tried to push the nut with my thumb on the side but it didn't move an inch.

This is not to feed my ego or anything but I need to meet a specific criteria for immigration purposes.

Wondering if any of you guitar players know how to meet this criteria:

• Evidence of your membership in associations in the field which demand outstanding achievement of their members

Like the title says, has anyone of you experimented with calcium on your hands to prevent them from sweating at concerts? Just wondered if it’s a thing and if it’s possible. Thanks! Also sorry if my english is bad, im not a native🙏

I'm thinking of building this because I've also gone through the whole miserable process of hearing a song, looking it up, and come up with a few sketchy tabs that don't really sound like the song.

This software would take a pdf or a picture and spit out some tabs and dynamics for the piece that have playable fingerings. Will this help at least five people out there?

If ANYBODY has any advice or criticism, please let me know!!

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to this!

Hello, I am relatively new to guitar and most possibly way in over my head for this piece but I just wanted to try playing the second movement of concerto de aranjuez. I'm just confused about sections like this:

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Especially this line

There are many more examples of passages like these. I was just curious how people are able to play them? I was able to play them slurred, but I looked at recordings and they pluck each note. Is there a right hand technique for this? I know about tremelo but that's when the note stays the same, I can't image using tremelo to play precise notes. Any help would be great. Thanks!

I've been working through the Bradford Werner method books and in the first book I don't remember it going over 4th fret B on the G string. Now the second method book is in second position and now I'm confused is that B in second position, first position or both? What about C# on the 6th fret on the G string? Is that second position? If so, I thought 2nd position was frets 2-5? If it's not, where do you play the C# if it's in the notation? It seems very confusing and there is a lack of resources on this it seems. Even the Fredrick Noad book doesn't seem to cover these in its description of 2nd position.

Is there a good resource that lays out all the notes for each position clearly? It seems I've searched far and wide and it's not described anywhere, which seems very unusual.

I'm new to guitars in general ! I'm looking to buy a guitar , i went to a guitar center and for my budget i found two guitars the yamaha c40 and yamaha cgs104a! Would you advice me to buy one of them ? Or should i look for other option? PS: i'm on budget

Hey, i wanted to turn my old classical guitar into a bass guitar, i was wondering if the bass strings would break the neck off.

Hello! I just bought an Alhambra 5p. According to Alhambra, they string their guitars with high tension strings (D'Addarío (XTC44 Extra Hard Tension)).

I'm an experienced musician, but admittedly very much a beginner in the world of classical guitar. I'm going to change the strings to another set I prefer, which are low tension strings, but I'm curious as to whether removing all the strings at once, and then inserting the new strings is preferable, or if I should remove one string and then immediately insert the new one, and swap them one string at a time so to speak.

What is best for the guitar? Given I'm switching from extra hard tension to low tension. Thankful for any help!