Equipment
What Equipment Do I Need?
Try going to your local guitar shop. I use PMT Professional Music Technology https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/stores/romford/ they are online and have shops all over the country.
Let them know what your budget is and what musical styles you’re into, which can affect what type/make of which guitar you may choose. Ask them to show you what they have in your price range, there are many great guitars and amps out there and I have listed a few i can recommend
Electric Guitar Lessons Shopping List
- Electric guitar
- Guitar tuner
- Padded gig bag or case
- Guitar picks
- Guitar cable
- Guitar practice amp with headphone socket
- Music stand (optional)
Acoustic Guitar Lessons Shopping List
- Steel string acoustic guitar
- Guitar tuner
- Padded gig bag or case
- Guitar picks
- Capo (optional)
- Footstool
- Music stand (optional)
Electric Guitars
Best Budget Electric Guitars
Spend from £100 to £300 and get a solid top if you can.
- Jackson
- Ibanez
- Yamaha Pacifica 112
- Epiphone Les Paul Special
- Fender Squire
Best Mid Range Electric Guitars
Spend between £300 to £900 and buy an electro acoustic if you are planning to gig.
- Fender Mexican Standard Strat Or Telecaster
- Gretsch
- Ibanez or Jackson
- Epiphone Les Paul Standard
- PRS SE
Best Pro Level Electric Guitars
Spending over £1000 – many pro players have more than one guitar for different styles at this level.
- Fender USA Stratocaster Or Telecaster
- Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 or PRS McCarty
- Gibson Les Paul or SG Standard
- Suhr Classic S or Alt T
- Friedman
Acoustic Guitars
Best Budget Acoustic Guitars
Spend from £100 to £200 and get a solid top if you can.
- Tanglewood
- Cort
- Vintage
- Washburn
Best Mid Range Acoustic Guitars
Spend between £200 to £600 and buy an electro acoustic if you are planning to gig.
- Faith
- Takamine
- Epiphone
- Yamaha
Best Pro Level Acoustic Guitars
Spend from £700 to £1000, you get higher grade of woods and electronics at this price range
- Taylor
- Gibson
- Martin
- Zager
Electric Guitar Amps
Best Budget Electric Guitar Amps
Spend from £100 to £200 – many of these feature headphone and bluetooth outputs for practice
- Blackstar ID Core 10 Version 2
- Vox Valvetronix VT20+
- Roland Cube
- Marshall Code 25
- Fender Mustang LT 25
Best Mid Range Electric Guitar Amps
Spend between £200 to £700, which will be a mixture of digital and tube (valve) based amps
- Boss Katana 100 MKII
- Blackstar HT-5R MKII
- Fender
- Marshall
- Orange
Best Pro Level Electric Guitar Amps
Spending from £800 to over £1000, which will all be tube (valve) based amps
- Fender
- Marshall
- Mesa Boogie
- Vox
- Victory
Best Software & Apps For Mac Or PC
- Transcribe – Change the tempo, pitch and loop sections of songs, a great way to practice your guitar
- Chordify – A platform for guitar, ukelele and piano chords, helping musicians of all abilities play the music they love
- Guitar Pro – Over 2000 guitar pro transcriptions of your favourite songs available directly in the guitar pro editor software
- Sibelius – The worlds best selling music notiation software
- Logic Pro X – Turns your Mac into a professional recording studio able to capture your compositions and performances for musicians and producers
Guitar Pedals & Effects Processors
- Custom Pedal Boards, Pedal boards and rigs are instruments in their own right and are as personal as your guitars; Custom Pedal Boards will design and build a handmade custom pedal board solution that fits your budget, your music and your playing needs.
- Boss make easy to use and affordable pedals try the BD-2W and Boss Loop Station RC-30. Great for solo improvisation practice and songwriters
- TC Electronic produce versatile pedals such as the Flashback 2 delay and Hall of Fame 2 reverb, a welcome addition to any setup
- Wampler boutique pedals are a little more expensive but one of my favourites is the Tumnus overdrive for the tone of the vintage classics
- Strymon have become the trendsetters for powerful, digitally controlled multi-effects pedals. The Big Sky is one of their flagship offerings, an all encompassing reverb unit