What is the difference between a folk guitar and a classical guitar?

To talk about the difference between classical guitar and folk guitar, we need to discuss from several aspects.

One, the shape of the structure of the difference: for the classical guitar, the strings used in the strings are used for solo and performance of music is more suitable for nylon guitar strings, the world's three major strings D'Addario, Savarese, Augustine is for the classical guitar, and the folk guitar is used by the steel strings, by the nature of its performance; regular folk guitar in the number of pints is not the same as the classical guitar, in the The combination of the fingerboard and the guitar cabinet, the fingerboard is 14 pins, while the classical guitar is just 12 pins overtone point, but some folk guitars are imitation of the classical guitar production; folk guitars are prepared for the accompaniment, so of course, there is no shortage of straps, at the same time has a strap buckle, careful beginners can be found; Classical guitars and regular folk guitars in the pegged strings and setup are completely different, I will not say more here. I'm not going to talk about it here.

Second, the form of performance is different: classical guitar can be engaged in the following performance: guitar solo, ensemble, concerto and accompaniment, while the folk guitar is played in a single way, just accompaniment, there are a lot of people with the steel-stringed guitar (folk guitar) to play fingerpicked guitar repertoire, the creation of a number of alternative styles, but the musical art of the classical guitar expressive to be much stronger. I recommend the classical guitar for beginners, but the acoustic guitar/bass is a modern instrument that has evolved from the classical guitar for band accompaniment.

Three, learning methods are different: from the nature of the performance can be known to learn the two guitar learning methods and ways are different, classical guitar learning process is to go through the formal posture, training and progressive learning exercises, rigor and professionalism is the characteristics of the classical guitar learning to improve; folk guitar in the learning but a lot of freedom, but in the type of accompaniment and rhythm up and down the work to be more! The folk guitar is the biggest guest star of the second improvement of the learning guitar, once the folk guitar learning molding is very bad in the learning of classical guitar, may need to spend a long time to correct some wrong fingering and techniques, and the speed of the need to re-formalize the training.

Four, the artistic connotation of different: classical guitar represents the continuation of the development of musical art, as the world's three major musical instruments of the classical guitar is the inheritance and development of the musical art of the incarnation of his expressive power and even more than all the other musical instruments, Beethoven, Brouwer (twentieth-century spokesman for the world of music) have made a very high price of the classical guitar, so the classical guitar represents a higher level of art, also requires the appreciation of the human being. So the classical guitar represents a higher level of art, the same requirements to appreciate the quality of music should also be very high; folk guitar performance of the artistic connotation of the general subordinate to the singer and the song, really the connotation of the song through the accompaniment to a more intimate performance, of course, this will require both parties to cooperate with the ability to good.

The above is only a part of the difference to be discussed, in fact, the difference between classical guitar and folk guitar is a lot of many, only you understand the guitar, you can appreciate the difference between them.

Below, the shape of the guitar and playing genres to make a simple categorization of the introduction:

The first category: the Spanish guitar. There are many different genres of Spanish guitars: classical guitar, folk guitar, pique guitar, flamenco guitar and so on. Among them, the classical guitar as a representative, folk guitar for the masses:

Classical guitar: his appearance is characterized by a round sound hole in the top of the instrument, and is equipped with six strings (the early use of sheep intestinal strings, later changed to nylon strings). The instrument's fingerboard is wider, the neck has 12 pins, and there are no pitch marks, the end of the instrument does not have a backstrap pegs. There are strict rules for playing the instrument, and it is usually played in a plucked style, often used for solo and repertoire, and also for ensemble playing. Because of its soft and elegant sound, it can show beautiful and rich expressive power when playing both classical and modern music.

Folk guitar: It is similar to the classical guitar in appearance, but with steel strings, it has a narrower fretboard, a 14-pin neck with frets marked for ease of playing, strap pegs at the end, and a guard on the top. The folk guitar is slightly different from the classical guitar in that it is integrated with the pick guitar, and is held diagonally to the chest for a more free posture, and can be played in a variety of forms, such as fingerstyle, pickstyle, or fingerstyle. For the convenience of playing, it is often used to move the tuning clip when tuning. Folk guitars are, in most cases, used to accompany country, jazz, rock, and folk songs, and play an important role especially in folk singing.

Pick Guitar: Pick Guitar: Pick Guitar, also known as Jazz Guitar, the instrument's panel and back plate is slightly curved, the use of steel wire strings, with Pick (PICK: plectrum) playing, can be issued a larger volume, the panel on both sides of the opening of the F-shaped two sound holes, the body of the instrument is relatively large, the neck is narrow and long, the fretboard has a slight arc, easy to press the index finger across the way to play can be divided into solo, accompaniment, bass, ensemble, suitable for folk music. It is suitable for playing folk music.

Flamenco guitar: Flamenco guitar appearance and classical guitar is very similar, but the body is slightly larger than the classical guitar, each string of the sound is lower, play a strong sound when the strings hit the fingerboard to send out a special sound, often used to play the joyful, enthusiastic Spanish folk songs and dances. Its most important feature is that it can be struck with the fingers of the panel to send out a wonderful rhythm and rhythmic Arabian-style tunes, which has formed the current popularity of the unique romantic atmosphere of the Flamenco guitar.

The second category: Hawaiian guitar. Hawaiian guitars are played with a slide bar in the left hand and plastic or metal fingernails in the right hand. Metal nails play the tone is brighter, suitable for playing the treble strings, plastic nails play the tone is thick, suitable for playing the bass strings, playing more slides, vibrato, it is a beautiful tone, charming, with a subtropical style, often used as a melody instrument to increase the orchestral color, but also can be used for solo in the orchestra, it's the way of playing is: the player puts the instrument in his lap or standing on the instrument on the bracket. It is played by the player with the instrument on his lap or standing with the instrument on a stand.

The third category: electric guitar is a kind of guitar deformation instrument, is with the modern electronic technology and electroacoustic development, it is from the appearance of the acoustic and the traditional guitar have obvious differences. First of all, it is more types of body structure, such as electro-acoustic electric guitar, solid-type electric guitar, etc., because it uses the string vibration to the electro-acoustic conversion of the sound principle, and is equipped with a volume regulator, pitch controller or weak tone Lv, vibrato machinery, foot-control devices such as strong and weak, so that it is in the volume and timbre of the traditional guitar with a different special expressive power, the electric guitar and acoustic guitar, compared to the music is more sweet, melodious tone full and Glossy, penetrating, and volume can be controlled at will, the timbre of the sound quality varied, these features make the electric guitar has become a modern music world of a generation of pride, it can be used to play solo or accompaniment, playing the need to hang the back strap, playing the way of freedom, is the modern electro-acoustic band rock band in the essential instruments.