Guitar Playing Mamas, I Need Some Suggestions

I know a great teacher, but he is in Terrell...

Go ahead and get that guitar from Target. You are right - you don't know if she is going to stick with it - so don't go out and buy an expensive one. Maybe she will really like playing guitar, and steady practice will be an incentive to get a "real" guitar and amp!

My son started on one of those little cheapo's from Walmart... he is now a wonderful musician, booking gigs around the metroplex. (With better guitars! :))

I don't know how much the guitar at Target is, but we bought my son a great beginner guitar at Zoo Music for only $60. My husband plays the guitar and he thought it was a really good one for the price. They came in several different colors - my son got a blue one. If she has really small hands, then try to get a smaller guitar. I took guitar lessons when I was young and I have small hands even now. I was very frustrated because I could not reach the chords. You might also ask about guitar lessons at a local music store. My husband is teaching my son, so I don't have anyone to recommend.

My daughter just turned 9 and wants to try to teach herself guitar, so I asked her piano teacher what he recommends (he teaches guitar too). He said for her age, she'd need a 1/2 size acoustic guitar with nylon strings because it doesn't cut into their fingers like the steel ones do. All the ones I found at Target and Walmart were steel stringed, so I did some searching and found one at Guitar Center with nylon strings for $50. She's getting it for Christmas, so she hasn't actually used it yet.

My daughter took from Clare Greer in Lake Highlands and we found her through Childbloom, which is a method of teaching guitar. They have a website, www.childbloom.com, which you can access to find a teacher. Anyway, she strongly recommended nylon strings for children. The Lakewood Advocate also has ads in the back for music lessons, including guitar. (It's a neighborhood magazine (monthly) that usually gets delivered to your door.). They have a website too which you could probably find by googling.