Essential Accessories
Absolutely essential guitar accessories you should always have to hand are a tuner, picks, cleaning products, a strap, a gig bag and a backup set of strings.
It’s not ideal when something breaks, or you lose your a trem arm or your only pick and you have no way quick way to fix the situation. Prevent it from happening in the first place where possible and stock up on extra bits and bobs. That way you’re less likely to give up as soon as you’ve started.
Guitar Pedals
Guitar pedals are not an absolute playing necessity. But they do expand the sounds and effects you can make with a guitar. Guitarists who are tired of hearing the same old tones should get themselves a pedal.
These wondrous stompboxes expand on what your amp can already do with unique sounds. There are literally thousands to explore, with effects ranging from subtle studio compression to atmospheric reverb, wacky pitch shifting and everything in between.
Practice Resources
A great way to stick to playing the guitar this time round is to make the most of guides and videos available (especially the ones we provide across the Andertons blog and Youtube channels). It’s no coincidence that the more progress you make, the more motivation you have to pick up the guitar.
Setting goals is the key to continual improvement. Write down short, mid and long term targets in order to achieve something after each time you play. Learning music theory is great knowledge to have, but you can get by perfectly fine without.
Captain Lee Anderton took some insightful lessons from Youtube guitar teacher JustinGuitar – give the video series a watch and we guarantee you’ll find yourself inspired. If you’re keen to explore the guitar gear or industry side of things, there’s no better place to learn than here on the blog.