How to make a kid HATE guitar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2024
- How long it will take me to make it playable?
One song? One hockey period? One full length album?
Let me know in the comments.
-My recommendation for a safe 1/4 size guitar: www.amazon.ca/Yamaha-GL1-Guit...
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Max
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My mom bought an even worse toy ukulele for my young son for Christmas or something thinking it would be a useful instrument for him to learn to play. It’s amazing what non musicians think would be usable. I tell people “if you are buying an instrument for a child, it still needs to be a real instrument.”
Its amazing indeed. That god you have the insight to understand it and not blaming your son for not playing it.
YES! Thank you for this video. I am a guitar teacher and I cannot tell you how many children I've taught struggle to enjoy/properly learn and play the instrument due to the inadequate quality of their instruments! It can really cause kids to become disinterested and its not always easy to tell parents bluntly that they need to buy better equipment for their child. The amount of poorly made small-scale guitars far outnumbers the amount of adequate ones. Of course, children learning guitar do not need fancy cosmetics, or particularly "nice" materials for their instruments, but giving them one that falls short of the necessary specs is setting them up for failure and possibly resentment.
For any parents looking to buy your child a beginner guitar, Yamaha makes excellent starter nylon-string guitars without breaking the bank. Trust me the initial extra cost will go exceedingly far in helping your child in the long run.
I agree, beginners dont need anything fancy. Just a decent instrument.
I like how you said ''setting them up for failure''. This could have been the title of the video.
Wow! Bravo 👏🏼
Merci!
This was really funny, i look forward to seeing more
Glad you enjoyed it.
Nice intro! Poetic Quebec slur xp
Ça sortait tout seul hahaha
Nice
honestly, the people who tend to unironically buy this sort of stuff usually also got a decent enough music store within at least normal driving distances...
you're far better off being bullshitted into buying something more expensive by the guys working in that store, like the Yamahas you mentioned, than arguing about how "I don't want to spend 150+ dollars on something they'll only use once.".
like, the bowed classical we had laying around in the house for years, collecting dust... is now pretty much the only other acoustic guitar we own. fixed it myself with an iron set to steam mode, but even in it's bowed state... it was at least making sound. ever since fixing it, I have yet to really come across an acoustic or classical guitar that I'd hands down jump to buy. and this thing pretty much looks identical to one of those cheapo amazon basics style stuff, so the bar ain't even that high.
this is getting really long, but literally the 20 dollar thrift store strat clone I found and bought specifically for a past project, but now being repurposed for a similar but different project... A) made sound and held tune B) worked, proving it at least could function as a test bed for future better parts. and this year when I replaced the wiring and some of the electronics(still stock "crappy" pickups), it sounded pretty on par to what I'd expect from something like a low end Squier... which it was not. can't even find who the manufacturer is given how they don't show up when I google them.
what I'm trying to say is... IT'S NOT HARD TO FIND A GUITAR THAT DOES GUITAR THINGS PROPERLY AT CHEAP PRICES.
ALSO also, I think the guitar you pretty much "rebuilt" from the ground up in the video is intended to be nylon strings like classical guitars... hence why those cracks you heard when tuning up to nowhere near where it should be. I'm sure you know this, so I'll just say it for anyone else reading, that Classical style guitars using nylons and steel stringed acoustics differ in bridge designs, mainly to combat that extra tension. classicals with their lower tension nylon strings can just be tied on properly, while steel strings are normally pined in so that the pin itself pretty much acts like those two flimsy screws it had, but spread across all the strings rather than one. it's probably sourced from a single factory and the guys retailing it, tried to pass it off as a steel stringed acoustic instead without changing anything...
Thank you for sharing your story. You're right about the nylon strings. I did choose to keep steels on because I maganed to make it work. The original state of the instrument with nylons might have prevented some of the bridge cracking, but I doubt if would have held the tuning anyway.
The goal of this video is not to glorify the 'decent ,'guitars you get at 200$. Not all guitars this price are decent. And depending on your needs, 'decent' can mean anything. The goal is to educate and prevent that kids are set up for failure.
Awesome work! Really enjoyed this. One question, does it even have a truss rod to support the steel strings? Or am I mistaken in thinking that it's neccessary?
I suspect they dont know what's a truss rod. I doubt it would have been functional.
The amount of effort you put to prepare this piece of crap to be playable is nuts and I appreciate your effort. Why did they produced this anyway? Such products should be outlawed to enter the market.
I agree. They only get away with it because of the ignorance of the buyers.
Thinking it didn’t even survive being tuned to pitch is crazy.
And I thought my first guitar was a piece of crap? This thing made my old, rented Harmony Sovereign look and sound like a Stradivarius by comparison!
You, sir, are a credit to your profession. I can only imagine the patience it took to turn that cheap toy into a working guitar. Even so, given the fact that there's no bracing around the bridge, I fear it's only a matter of time before the top starts to pull right off the body.
@@That70sGuitarist I probably wouldn’t have made this video if I had looked at it beforehand. It took resilience to get through it.
I certainly will fall apart someday. Adding braces would have helped, but so would have a new nut and frets.
Thank you for your kind words. 🙏
@@baronguitars You are most welcome, of course. Even if I had the skills, I doubt I'd have the patience to make a piece of crap like that playable.
Then again, that's why I don't make 'em, I just play 'em!😉
This was probably meant for standard tuning.
Tuning it in G standard was way too loose. E standard was out of the question. This moment was removed from the editing but I tested it.
You can really tell how poorly these guitars usually play by the amount of surprise she shows at 14:43 so hats off to your craftsmanship for turning this piece of junk into something that will actually help a child learn to enjoy guitar.
As a music teacher, she insisted that the instruments they made available for the music camp were quality ones. I honestly didn't know if it would be good enough. Her expression says it all.
It hurts to see him trying to tune up to A immediately, pretending this is a high end instrument for advanced players. These cheap short scale guitars are made for beginners, who will most likely use a basic tuner or tuner app that will help them tuning to E. I've tried a few and it always worked well tuning to E. If that feels floppy, better tune up gradually.
Otherwise a good idea learning to set these up, as they are often decent sounding, but badly set-up instruments. I suggest watching some of twoodfrd's videos. He would consider and measure well before doing anything, especially glueing on a new bridge.
« Pretending this is a high end instrument for advanced players » 😆😂
I have three garbage acoustic guitars that only serve my purposes. Garbage Airline guitar: useful for me as an exercise instrument - not for creating music. The other two? I paid the same price for all three: nothing. The other two are more ornamental than instrumental. Thank you for posting this. To respond to the question at the end, was it worth it? Emphatically, no! I would never subject a beginner to such frustration.