Class Classical Guitar
May 28th, 2008 | 
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Can people learning classical and acoustic guitar go for the same class together?
Please help me!
Im a little confused.
Can i go for the same class with a person learning acoustic guitar when myself learn to play the classical guitar?
Thanks! 
Yes you can. The term "acoustic" applies to any guitar that is built with a hollow box from where the sound will be projected. "Acoustic" guitars are made to be played with either steel strings or nylon strings.
Nylon strings guitar are also known as "classical" guitars since it is the one guitar most often used to play music written in the classical form. The strings are nylon and almost always is played with the "bare" fingers - meaning no "pick". The steel string guitar is almost always played with a pick but there are players that also play "finger-stroke" not a pick.
Either guitar can play any kind of music- many people think that a "classical" guitar is only for playing classical music and the steel string guitar is only to play folk and other non-classical music. Both are mistaken. A steel string can play classical music just as well as a nylon string guitar and a nylon string can play any non-classical music just like the steel string guitar.
The main difference is that a classical guitar sound in mellower and darket due to the nylon strings.A classical guitar is built with a wider neck (2.1") where the strings have more separation between each other.Players that prefer to play the melody line of a musical number tend to like this set up because there is more "room" for the fingering of the notes with less risk of touching an adjacent string.
The steel strings acoustic have a brighter metallic sound a narrower neck bringing strings closer. Players that concentrate on chord playing tend to prefer this type since it seems to be easier for chord forming and playing chords progressions without too much finger stretching.
The steel string does require a bit more pressure to produce a clear sound that nylon strings and some new students tend to find it hard to play for longer period of time due to the "punishment" on the fingers until they become used to this type of strings.That could also be one of the reasons why a pick is used by most players. People with small hands or short fingers can also benefit from the narrower neck since it is not too hard to reach horizontally to the six string. Some players with fat or big fingers could benefit from the neck of the classical.
I have attended a guitar class at a local college where the nylon and steel string instruments were about equally divided in the class.The instruction lessons were applicable to the guitar instrument
regardless of strings used.
The question for you to decide is how is the class being conducted. If the class is going to be for learning chords and chord progression? If that is the case this may not be the best class for you.
Classes for student of classical guitar spend time on the learning to sight -read the guitar musical staff, fingering positions for both hands,scales and exercises for the learning of the fret-board while playing simple music in the first to the 5th position.
There are groups in many communities that get together to help each other in learning the classical guitar, Many adult community education center also offer guitar classes concentrating in "classical guitar". If you can't find any, look in the internet for more reference to classical guitar group learning. In addition the teacher of this class you are considering may give you some reference for such a group.
If you know how to sight-read music you can also start on your own. There are many good books for beginners in classical guitar. That is the way I started. I knew how to sight read and getting a start with a couple of good instructional books was not too difficult.
One book that can get you going and at a very low cost is published by Mel Bay's publications is: "Complete Method For The Classical Guitar" and cost $14.95 at your local book store.
I hope this will be of some help.
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