Gift Ideas for Electric Guitar Players

So a holiday is coming up, or maybe even a birthday. Maybe it’s an anniversary or other special time. If your child or significant other is a guitarist and you aren’t, it may be difficult to find a great gift for them.

After all, if you aren’t one, you don’t know much about the instrument or its needs, do you?

Well that’s okay, because in this article, we’ll give you some ideas that will help you to make the right choice when picking out a gift for that special person.

Our first gift idea for electric guitar players is a metronome. Metronomes are the tool that most guitarists will use more than anything else. It helps them to develop rhythm and timing, making them a better overall guitarist.

There are multiple types of metronomes, but the most common are electric metronomes and standard metronomes. Any metronome that you purchase should have at least a range of 100bpm – 200bpm. Better metronomes will range from around 50bpm to 250bpm with many possible intervals of tempo. They are usually done in intervals of either ten or five.

Another great gift idea for electric guitarists is a tuner. A tuner is the perfect tool to help your guitarist to, well, stay in tune. Staying in tune is one of the most important things for a musician, right behind being able to keep rhythm. In fact, without proper tuning rhythm is useless, and without rhythm proper tuning is useless. This is a great present for people who have just started out on learning how to play guitar.

There are different types of tuners; some that have LED displays, others that have no displays but instead play the pitch of a note--or frequency--so that the musician has to match the pitch by ear. The best tuners are chromatic, which means that they allow you to tune to any frequency, or note, that you want. This includes accidental notes, otherwise known as sharp and flat notes.

The third gift on our list is a guitar case. There are two common types of guitar cases; a hard shell case and a soft gig bag case.

The first is most commonly used by guitarists who are constantly on the road, or who have expensive instruments.

The second type is usually used by gigging guitarists; ones who move around a lot but either don’t have a very expensive instrument, or need mobility more than a big bulky case.

In most cases with hard shell cases, you will need to find out what kind of guitar your guitarist has in order to assure that you find the proper case for them. If you don’t, the guitar may not fit properly which will be just about as useful as not owning the case at all.

Well, there you have it; three easy gift ideas for electric guitar players. For those of you with bigger spending in mind, you can always look into an actual guitar or amplifier. If that’s the case, chances are your guitarist has mentioned equipment that interests them, so just keep an ear open and go with what you hear.

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