Metalworker's Guide: Electronic Guitar

What is the ultimate dream of any teenager in love with rock music? Of course, an electronic guitar! And it does not matter, Fender it will be or Ibanez, the guitar itself, regardless of the brand, is an instrument that opens the horizons of creativity. But often overpay does not guarantee you the quality of the purchase. Sometimes it is much more advantageous to buy an old, seen guitar from the hands, and then bring it to mind independently. After all, an electronic guitar, like any other musical instrument, requires that a little soul and a huge amount of work be invested in it. And it's not about learning to play the guitar, but about getting from it exactly the sound that you want to hear.

Of what, from what, from what ... is "Warlock of Fender" made?

In this brief note, I want to emphasize the fact that in themselves electronic Guitars are just pieces of wood, which even from fans really can not be beat. Of course, with the exception of Soviet guitars of the brand "Ural", nicknamed the fortress "fanatootboynikom." The sound of a guitar is its strings and pickups, the position of the neck and pins, the hummer and bridge, various tone and tone settings, a pedal and an electronic tuner for tuning the guitar ... Think again, do you want to be a guitar player? If your answer is "yes", then the electronic guitar will become your mother, wife and daughter in one person. You will give her the lion's share of free time, as if selling the devil a soul for talent. And it's not a fact that you will become a good guitar player, because you have little patience and perseverance, you have to invest the whole soul in the game.

And the smallest price of this pleasure is formed by simple mathematics: a guitar - 5 thousand, strings, a mediator, a pedal, a tuner - five thousand more, a combo - five thousand more, and this is the minimum set that you need for the game. The real cost of a similar, but professional set varies between eighty thousand rubles! True, it must be said that most of the beginning guitarists develop gradually, improvising and learning.

The reverse side of reality

But do not be frightened, because there is one "but", which by its advantages overcomes all the shortcomings of being a guitar player: it's fucking cool! Yes Yes exactly! You will soon be noticed by all the local rock fans, you will have a lot of acquaintances with people more or less versed in music that will give you the opportunity to grow and communicate in order to rise higher. You will have girls, and that's it, in the plural, because steeper than an electronic guitar, there can be only one: a guitarist with it in his hands!

Over time, you will have the opportunity to put together your group, and until then you will be able to play in other groups on contract or simply perform popular songs in night clubs and earn a lot of money on it. When your team first enters the stage and you play the first reef, and the crowd raises their hands up in a welcoming gesture, at this moment you will feel that everything is not in vain, and by selling your soul to the guitar, you still received your reward a hundredfold!