Guitar accessories for beginners

Hello all, today I'm going to write about the basic required beginner's guitar accessories. After you decide on the guitar there are few which you have to buy in order to playing your guitar. These accessories will eventually be a part of your everyday practice. Alright, lets understand the accessories required,

Pick    

 

Pictures of few picks

Picks or plectrum, is used to strum or pick your acoustic guitar strings. And there are a number of varieties of picks available in the market. As a beginner, buy yourself thin picks and buy a few of them cause you'll lose the picks easily. It doesn't mean you have to lose it regularly. Just keep the picks safely and you lose one you'll have another one as a spare. You can also buy a few medium thick picks too just to experiment. However, there different brands of picks and a few popular ones are Jim Dunlop, Planet Waves, Fender, Gibson and so on. You can pick any pick which your comfortable with but make sure you pick few picks.

Different thickness of picks of Jim Dunlop

Tuner and Metronome 

Analog Metronome 

Tuner is a small instrument which help to tune the guitar and a metronome keeps timing when you practice. You get these two instruments separately, however, these days you have both tuner and the metronome as one instrument. As a beginner, go for a digital tuner and a metronome cause its very easy to use and it also improves your music sense. 

Digital metronome and tuner

Guitar bag

Usually you get a guitar bag along with the guitar, however, some guitar don't. So make sure you pick up a guitar decent guitar bag in case you don't get one so you can carry your guitar wherever you want to.

Acoustic Guitar Bag

Guitar Stand

Its a good idea to pick up a guitar stand, cause its always safe to keep the guitar on a guitar stand. Its not only easy access to the guitar, it also holds the guitar safely. There are different stands available in the market, make sure to buy an acoustic guitar stand and choose a stand that's convenient for you. 

  

A model of Hercules acoustic guitar stand

Strings 

Acoustic Guitar Strings

Even though the guitar will have strings on it, a set of strings is a good idea to buy along with it. You can have a as spare, in case a guitar strings snaps. There are different brands of strings in the market, however, the gauge of the string remains the same. Buy .011-.052 gauge strings cause it is considered standard. They also sound fuller and it will keep the guitar a good shape too.   

Note: Even if one string snaps, change the whole set of strings of the guitar. 

D'Addario's .011 - .052 Gauge Acoustic Guitar Strings 

Other Accessories

There are other accessories which you can pick along with the guitar, like strap, capo,pick holder and so on. They are not absolutely necessary, however, you can buy them too.

Well, that's all for today and hope the blog was of some help to you. 

Thank you.