Best Acoustic Guitars For Beginners (Updated July 2019) + Buyer's Guide And Reviews

Looking for your dream acoustic guitar?

In this post, I will guide you to choose Best Acoustic Guitars For Beginners.


Acoustic guitars form several notable subcategories within the acoustic guitar group: classical and flamenco guitars; steel-string guitars, which include the flat-topped, or "folk", guitar; twelve-string guitars; and the arched-top guitar. The acoustic guitar group also includes unamplified guitars designed to play in different registers, such as the acoustic bass guitar, which has a similar tuning to that of the electric bass guitar.
For beginners, I would like to tell you that you don't need a high-quality guitar, but if you can afford then that's not a problem. I also would like you to know that buying a cheap guitar will not do the job for you.

 If you have less than 4000 rupees, I would advise you to save a little bit more because that's the best way in this case. Why?
Because buying a cheap crappy guitar is a formula to guitar-learning failure. Like I just said, these guitars sound so terrible and are harder to play that they will drive you to quit learning.

I know that there are many beginners are confused about their own choice. In this post, I will try to clear up your doubts and also guide you to choose the best budget guitars for beginners.

Table Contents
1. Kadence Frontier Series
2. Yamaha F310
3.Martin Smith W-101-N-PK
4. Ibanez MD39C-NT
5. Fender SA-150
6. Guitar buyers guide
  • Comfort 
  • Body size


Here are the Best Acoustic Guitars For Beginners.

1. KADENCE FRONTIER SERIES
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Price: Rs 5700

Kadence Guitars is an upcoming brand of
Guitars which have just started trending here in India. These guitars have a good quality look and feel and have the ability to turn heads once you start playing. The sound quality of Kadence Guitars is soothing but with a bright tone, which means you may have to go for higher gauge strings in case you are looking for bass-heavy sound output. However, as it is always advisable to change strings as soon as you purchase your guitar, (which goes for both online and in-store purchases) you can then itself choose the right strings for your new Kadence Guitar.

Kadence frontier series are also available in acoustic and semi-acoustic for a similar price. This amazing, guitar comes in a variety of colours like black, red, blue and so on.

Features & details

  • Product Type: Acoustic Guitar
  • Brand: Kadence, Fretboard material: Rosewood, Number of strings:6
  • Type: Acoustic Guitar, Body material: Spruce Wood
  • String Type: Roundwound Strings, String Gauge: Stainless Steel.
  • Body shape: cutaway


Pros
  • Superb sound quality at this price
  • Quality body design
  • Available in a variety of colours


2. YAMAHA F310
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Price: Rs 8499
  
The Yamaha F310 Acoustic Guitar
consists of a spruce top, back and sides are Meranti, a Nato neck and a rosewood fretboard. The F310 is unique in its class in being specially created to be kinder to fingertips with lightly shorter strings it means that there is a small less tension giving extra playing support with no loss of tone. It is precision produced and hand-finished to rigorous ISO rules and allows the same focus on quality, layout, and sound as all Yamaha acoustics. Yamaha's traditional quality control assures that the guitar is set up to the same spec as our expert models and suggests an outstanding playing action.
The Yamaha F310 Acoustic Guitar is an excellent entry-level acoustic guitar that covers select tonewoods and durable, strong hardware to produce a great sounding and much playable acoustic guitar.
The Yamaha F310 is an outstanding quality acoustic instrument at a fairly affordable price. Its dreadnought style body gives loud acoustic tone with easy playability.


Features&details

  • Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
  • Fingerboard Radius :R400mm (15 3/4")
  • Bridge Material: Rosewood
  • Nut Material: Urea
  • Saddle Material: Urea
  • Bridge Pins: Black ABS
  • Body Finish: Gloss
  • Neck Finish: Matt
  • Body shape: Dreadnought 

Pros
  • Affordable price for beginners 
  • Sound quality is outstanding
  • Great design and playing comfort 

3.MARTIN SMITH W-101-M-PK
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Price: Rs 5999

Based in the U.K. Martin Smith Guitars manufacture quality crafted instruments for hobbyists, students and musicians alike.
Aimed at the entry level and education market - Martin Smith Guitars have been designed to be affordable while surpassing the standard quality for a beginner instrument.

Martin Smith guitars are the preferred choice for thousands of guitarists. Designed especially for students, this full-size steel strung guitar comes complete with a clip-on tuner, guitar stand, padded gig bag, strap, spare strings, plectrums and access to free online lessons giving you a complete package.The-100 guitar has a full size 39" body perfectly contoured for a comfortable playing position with a singular bottom peg to attach your strap. Built to a high standard and featuring a hi-gloss finish, the w-100 guitar looks distinctive and resonates with rich sounds. The guitar also features a truss rod, allowing the woods natural shape to be adjusted prolonging the life of your musical instrument. The martin smith acoustic guitar comes steel strung, up to geared machine heads. These help keep the guitar tuned for longer and minimize the risk of the strings breaking when tuning due to their controlled action.  

The guitar has a 39inch body and is perfectly curved for comfortable play.
  • Hi-gloss Finish
  • Geared Machine Heads
  • Steel Strings
  • Accessories: Strap, Strings, Picks
It is also available in black colours.

Features & details

  • Steel strung full-scale neck
  • Slimline contoured body for comfortable playability and a rich tone
  • Classical body shape
Pros

  • Affordable price 
  • Amazing sound quality
  • Excellent body quality


4. IBANEZ MD39C-NT
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Price: Rs 6949

 Ibanez is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki . Based in Nagoya , Aichi , Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass-produce the seven-string guitar and eight-string guitar. Ibanez manufactures effects, accessories, amps, and instruments in Japan, China, Indonesia and in the United States (at a Los Angeles-based custom shop). As of 2017, they marketed nearly 165 models of bass guitar, 130 acoustic guitars, and more than 300 electric guitars.

Ibanez Acoustic Guitar with cutaway MD39C-NT and the Fingerboard material is rosewood Acoustic Steel-String Guitars Stringed Instrument.


Features & details

  • Type - acoustic guitar with cutaway
  • Fingerboard material - rosewood
  • Top - Spruce
  • Number of frets - 20
  • Number of strings - 6
  • Colours: natural
Pros
  • Amazing sound quality
  • Affordable price
  • Good body quality
5. FENDER SA-150
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Price: Rs 7000

Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) was an American inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, or "Fender" for short. In January 1965, he sold the company to CBS and later founded two other musical instrument companies, Music Man and G&L Musical Instruments.

The Squier by Fender SA-150 is a full-size steel-string acoustic that offers big sound at a small price. It's strong enough to stand up to the everyday use (and abuse) that beginning player might throw its way thanks to its all-laminate construction with Lindenwood top and mahogany back and sides. This guitar also features scalloped bracing, mahogany neck and a durable dark-stained maple fingerboard to give you an instrument that looks as good as it sounds. With its slim, easy-to-play neck and full-bodied dreadnought tone, the SA-150 is an ideal choice for all rookie strummers. All products are imported from the USA. All electronic products must be used with a step-down/upconverter for Indian voltage compatibility.

Features&detail

  • String: steel string
  • Shape: Dreadnought
  • Body: full laminated
  • Neck: slim, easy to play
  • Colours: natural
Pros

  • Excellent sound quality
  • Rigid body
  • Attractive colour
The above guitars are my opinion for absolute beginners.

6. GUITAR BUYING GUIDE.
There are many factors for a good guitar. These factors determine the quality of a guitar. For absolute beginners or intermediate, I would like to advise you to check properly before you buy it.

 COMFORT
First of all, your guitar should be comfortable to play. Try to hold the guitar in the playing position and ask yourself, “does holding it feels comfortable, or does it feel awkward?” It should feel comfortable while both standing and sitting.
This is one of the most important factors for beginners to be aware of. This will allow you to play in your comfort zone.
The strings shouldn’t feel too far from the fretboard.
You might be asking, “why does it matter if the strings feel too far from the fretboard?”
Yes, it matters, how? If you are absolute beginners your fingers will pain like hell,  as a result, you will force yourself to quit.  Therefore, check properly before you finalized it.

NECK THICKNESS
Another factor to consider when testing guitars while shopping is the feel of the neck.
Is it too fat? Too wide? Try playing up and down the fretboard (even if you don’t know how to play yet) just to get a feel of the neck.
One of the reasons beginners stop learning is because their guitar makes playing harder. Guitars can do that? Yes, if it’s not fit for you.
So while shopping for your first guitar, try out as much as you can.

BODY SIZE
This is related to comfort, but the body size is an important topic that needs its own section. Basically, there are small, medium, and large body guitar sizes.

SMALL BODY SIZE GUITAR (A.K.A. CLASSIC OR CONCERT)


Also known as Classic or Concert body type, a small body guitar:

  • Has weaker bass sound.
  • Has a more focused tone especially in the middle range.
  • Produce a clearer and more articulate sound.

If the characteristics above fit the style you’re going for, then a small body guitar is a great choice.
A small body guitar is perfect for kids or beginners of smaller stature. This type is also popular among travelling guitarists because of its compact body size.

MEDIUM BODY SIZE GUITAR: CUTAWAY SHAPE






A medium body guitar is a perfect first guitar for anybody because it is the “grey area” of guitar body sizes. So if you plan to do both fingerpicking and strumming, then a medium body guitar is a perfect choice.

  • Less bass as compared to large body guitar
  • More emphasize sound
This type of body size is preferred by beginners and professionals.

LARGE BODY GUITARS (A.K.A.DREADNOUGHT OR JUMBO):


Also known as Dreadnaught or Jumbo, a large body guitar:

  • Has more bass tone.
  • Has less focused tone.
  • Sound louder than their smaller counterparts.

A large body guitar is a good choice if you’ll be doing a majority of strumming, or purely just strumming.

CONCLUSION
Learning guitar is an amazing experience. Trust me, once you get to the point where you can play a couple of songs, that's it. You won't stop learning.
I hope this post helped you to choose and clear your doubts. Please do share with your friends if you find this post valuable.

Have you found your dream guitar? Let me know.

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