Ultimate Acoustic Guitar
Your Acoustic Guitar Authority:
Welcome to Ultimate Acoustic Guitar – Your authority on everything that relates to this great instrument that we call the acoustic or the steel string guitar. It makes no difference if you are a Flatpicker ro a Fingerpicker – we gotcha covered in our articles.
Acoustic guitar gained popularity in the 1920′s when C.F. Martin & Co. made drastic changes to the then gut-stringed guitar.
They added steel string to the guitar to bring more volume and tone to an otherwise quite lackluster instrument.
Along with that change, many other changes were driven by the increased tension of the steel strings such as:
- Larger Sound Box
- Radically Different Bridge Configuration
- Stronger Machine Heads
- Beefed Up Top Bracing (now known as X-bracing)
- Different Scale Lengths
- 14 Fret as Well as 12 Fret Neck
- Dovetail Neck Joint
- Narrower Neck
- Steel Reinforced Neck
- And….much more.
What We Will Be Doing Here:
What can you expect from this website? Well as you know all web site evolve over time. For right now you can expect to see articles ranging from how to play the acoustic guitar, what to look for when you buy a guitar, flatpicking guitar tab, fingerstyle guitar tab, minor repair tips you can do yourself and a whole lot more.
Guitar Tab:
Expect to see very professional guitar tab on this site. We use Guitar Pro Software which is very easy for beginner and professional alike to use. The notation will include the standard musical notation, TAB and rhythm chords for each song. We will also offer downloads for each song. These will be PDF format, accompanied by the actual Guitar Pro that was used to transcribe the song.
Product Reviews:
Wonder which Capo, Case, Pick or other accessory you should purchase and why? Look here for the reviews of products that we like or dislike.
Also we will be reviewing guitars as time passes so watch for that in the near future. We will divide the guitar reviews into beginner, intermediate and advanced picker levels.
