Essential Guitar Accessories
If you’re serious about learning guitar this equipment is essential.
Recommended Strings
Over time your strings will lose their new sound. This means your guitar will sound dull and the strings will feel brittle under your fingers. I recommend changing your strings once every 3 months. I use Martin Bronze Acoustic Guitar Strings – Light (12 gauge)
Capo
Over half of the lessons on this site require a capo. It’s a small metal clamp that fits over the strings. They’re inexpensive and essential for singing guitarists. I use Shubb Capos.
Pub Prop Guitar Stand
Incredibly useful and portable guitar stand that I keep fixed to my desk. It saves the worry of the guitar slipping over when you lean it against a table. Great tool.
Guitar Stand
If you can see your guitar you’ll play it more. Buy a stand (like the Universal Acoustic + Electric Guitar Stand) and stop keeping your guitar in a bag. It’s a fact that guitars look awesome in any room of the house.
Footstool
Have you ever noticed how you might raise your right leg (or stand on your tips toes) when you’re playing guitar? You do this to bring the guitar closer to your hands and straighten your back. Use a foot stool instead. They’re inexpensive and they make playing guitar more comfortable.
Picks (Plectrums)
As picks are inexpensive my advice is to buy a bag of different thickness’s. As a beginner you should be using a thin pick (between 0.20mm to 0.50mm) However, as you gain experience you should increase the thickness.
I buy 3 bags of the Tortex picks pictured above at the start of the year, and they’re normally all gone by the end!
Music Stand
While not essential, this can save you from neck pain.
When you’re learning a song, you spend a lot of time looking at your hands, the last thing you want to do is look away from them to read music. I use orchestral music stands