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Hi, how’re you doing? Justin Sandercoe here, 
welcome to BC-103

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made sure I got that right by looking down here!

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What I’m gonna talk about in this lesson is some accessories that you'll

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probably find really useful if you’re gonna do 
my Beginners Course.

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Just gonna talk a little bit about them so you know what to look for when you go to the shop.

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The first thing I want to talk about is Plectrums. Now, the most

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important thing to look for when you’re a beginner guitar player and

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you don’t really know what you want, is to get yourself a very, very thin plectrum.

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I would recommend the “Jim Dunlop USA Nylon .46mm” pick.

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They’re white and very, very thin, should be a little picture just here showing you

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what they look like. That’s the one I’d recommend that you start off with.

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If you want to get – later on in the Course when we start doing some Scales and stuff,

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and playing some single lines, single notes – you might want to get a slightly thicker pick.

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I recommend these orange Dunlop picks….
Tortoise. Tortus, tortoise?

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Something like that they’re called. Yeah, really good picks; slightly thicker, good texture,

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easy to grip. If you’re just playing electric guitar, I tend to use a thicker pick. Jim Dunlop again,

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a “Jazz 3”. Nearly everyone I know uses the same pick: these little “Jazz 3’s”.

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I really like them, but the type of pick and the brand you that you buy is really your choice.

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You don’t have to buy a Jim Dunlop, buy whatever brand you want.

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Fender make good picks, I mean it really doesn’t make any difference, just find one that you like.

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So, that’s the first thing. Second thing, I highly recommend that you get yourself a Guitar Strap.

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Why? Because I don’t want your guitar falling off!

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Especially if you’re gonna stand up – you need to buy a strap, right,

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there’s no way around it if you’re gonna stand up. 
But if you’re sitting down as well,

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it can stop you kind of trying to grip the guitar 
in a funny way and altering your posture.

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It kind of makes it awkward if you’re trying to hold your guitar all the time, so getting

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a strap so that it’s kind of just almost tight on you when you’re sitting down is a good way to do it.

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So I try and think of my guitar being the same sitting down as when I’m standing up,

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I think that’s a good kind of practice to get into.

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But getting a strap’s quite a good idea – doesn’t matter the type of strap you get.

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If you’ve got a heavy guitar, like a Les Paul type guitar, an electric guitar,

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you probably want to get a padded strap, because, well maybe I’m just a big wussy but my shoulder

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gets really sore when I play with my Les Paul. So I’ve got an extra big thick padded strap for that guitar.

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Anyway, next really important thing that you need to get is a Metronome.

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Now, the metronome that I use is called a “Korg-MA30”.

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Again, don’t have a deal with Korg, just it’s a really good metronome – all my students have it.

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It’s got a lot of features that are really quite advanced that you’re

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not gonna use straight away as a beginner, but it’s just good. So,

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I’d go and check that out. And they’re not particularly expensive either,

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but it doesn’t really matter, just I wouldn’t advise that you buy the ‘tick-tock’ one,

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you know the ‘tick-tock-tick’ that you see sitting on the piano teacher’s desk.

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Don’t get one of them, silly idea. You can only choose certain speeds and stuff, just generally a bad idea.

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OK, Guitar Tuner. Now I use a really big “Peterson’s Strobe Tuner”, right, and they’re quite expensive.

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Really would be over the top if you’re a beginner guitar player to get one of those.

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The Korg MA-30 Metronome has a guitar tuner

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which looks exactly the same except it’s silver, I think, and works as a fine tuner.

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I do recommend getting an electronic tuner because if your guitar’s in tune it sounds nicer,

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which is a lot more inspiring when you’re learning guitar. So I’d recommend getting yourself

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a Korg electronic tuner, but it doesn’t really matter what tuner you get.

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If you’ve got oodles of money, and you just want to spunk it around unnecessarily, then get yourself a Peterson’s

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Strobe Tuner, because they’re fantastic tuners; really accurate, just too expensive, in my opinion, for a beginner.

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Anyway. Capo – or “Cay-Po” – I don’t know how it’s pronounced and I don’t really care, right.

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I call it a Capo; some people call it a “Cay-Po”.

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I don’t really know and I don’t really care! I recommend these ones called a ‘Kaiser’ capo.

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Why? Because I think they’re really good and I’ve never had one wear out or break.

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They just seem to last forever, they’re really good.

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There’s no little screws that you have to tighten up or anything like that.

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They’re really easy to move positions, they’re really good. They’re slightly more expensive

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than the regular capo, but you’re probably only gonna buy one in your

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lifetime – unless you lose it like I do. I lose mine all the time,

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but that’s just because I’m a bit dim when it comes to losing stuff like capos.

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Anyway…. I get that where people nick them off me all the time,

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maybe; either one. Anyway, get yourself a capo, ‘Kaiser’ capos – really good.

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We’re gonna discuss how to use a capo later on, so I’m not gonna go into that right now,

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it’s just a good idea to get yourself one.

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Display Folder! Get yourself a little…some sort of book with the clear pages in it so you can keep all your notes in.

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Really good idea, keeps them organised. You keep organised in a book, you keep organised in here.

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Don’t know how that works, but it does, so that would be a really really good thing to get going on as well.

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Couple of other, slightly less important accessories, but I still think are really valuable.

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Strap Locks. If you’re gonna buy a strap for your guitar, get Strap Locks.

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I use a big metal thing on the end of here which I have to kind of ‘click’ off

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to get the strap off and it makes a clicking noise.

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The strap’s never gonna come off, right. It’s really important because I have seen really expensive guitars – guys with,

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you know, posh Les Pauls or whatever, Les Pauls have got a really fragile headstock –

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playing away, this strap comes off, guitar falls down

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like that and smacks the headstock on the floor. Headstock gone,

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guitar worth half of what it used to be, and it’ll cost you a fortune to get it replaced.

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So, if you’re gonna stand up and play guitar, get yourself Strap Locks.

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I use these big metal ones which cost about £10,

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which is about $20 or something like that. Exchange Rate’s going crazy at the moment so I can’t really tell.

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But you can buy really cheap ones for like a dollar, plastic ones.

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So, again I’ll stick links up on the website, but go and check them out as well.

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If you can, get yourself some sort of Tape Recorder,

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it’s a really, really good idea. The best thing in the world that you can have when you’re

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learning guitar is a Jam Buddy – somebody to play along with

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that you can practice songs with, and as you develop a little bit and

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somebody’s learned to play Lead Guitar, then one guy can play some Rhythm,

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the other guy plays Lead. You can go back-to-back

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and test each other on naming chords. It’s great to have a Jam Buddy.

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If you don’t know anybody that’s learning guitar at the same time as you,

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then getting yourself some sort of a Tape Recorder is a really,

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really good idea, so you can record yourself, listen back –

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listening back is a really good teacher. And, as well, you can record yourself

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doing some Rhythm Guitar, and then practice doing either Rhythm Guitar along with it

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or practising a little Lead Guitar along with it. It’s a

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really, really good thing to do. Some sort of audible Tape Recorder, not necessary, but very useful.

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And last thing, Music Stand. A lot of people end up with back problems because they practice sitting on their bed,

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with their music on the bed next to them. Their back’s twisted round like this

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and their neck hunched over and they’re looking like that,

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then they’re reaching and looking at the guitar neck.

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Really, really good way to have to spend a whole lot of money in the chiropractor – don’t do it.

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Get yourself a Music Stand, they don’t cost a lot. Stick it up in front of you,

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make sure that you’re not twisting your spine around all the time.

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It’s a good idea to sit up fairly straight when you’re practising guitar, don’t be all hunching over like this,

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because it will lead you to some neck and back problems if you end up practising guitar a lot.

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There you go, there’s a few accessories for you. Like I said,

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there’ll be some links to some other pages from this page on the website

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with direct links and stuff to go and buy at your local music store or whatever.

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Hope that’s helped you with some ideas of some things

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that you need to buy that first time that you go to the music shop,

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or if you’ve already bought your guitar, the second time that you go to the music shop.

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Or maybe you go to the music shop all the time, so it won’t be that…..you know what I mean.

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I’ll see you for another lesson sometime soon. Bye-Bye!