The guitar is the second most popular musical instrument in the world, outranked only by the piano. It’s notes are one of the most recognizable sounds in music. One thing that makes the guitar so popular is the fact that a person can learn to play simple songs in a few hours. The other reason is that it’s so versatile in sound that it can be used to play many different types of music, everything from classical music to rock, country, the blues and more. Guitars are so popular with people intrigued by them, video game developers created two well-known video games (Rock Band and Guitar Hero) around them.
While there are many different types of guitars, three models make up most of the guitars used around the world. The acoustic guitar is the most popular of these three models followed very closely by the other two, which are the classic and the electric guitars. These three models are further broken down into other models of guitars such as 12-string, parlor, bass, steel and more but today we are only going to talk about the three basics.
