BUYING Your FIRST GUITAR - Beginner Guitar Shopping w/ Phillip McKnight

My Favorite Guitar + Filming Gear at Sweetwater

Disclosure: I only recommend products I would use myself and all opinions expressed here are my own. The link above is an affiliate link, that at no additional cost to you, I may earn a small commission on.

[jonathankeith]

How to buy your first guitar:
1. Walk in.
2. Say "That one looks purdy", while picking up a $5, 000 Gibson Les Paul.
3. Attempt to play Smoke on the Water in the wrong key.
4. Pay for it in cash.
5. Look at their faces.
6. Don't tell them that you've actually been playing for ten years, and you had saved up for this guitar for years after playing many cheaper guitars and getting good.

[PhillipMcKnight]

Thank you Marty for having me come down and join you on this adventure. I liked the brand of guitars so much I bought one.

[peterdimaria]

How to buy your first guitar:

1. Look at a very expensive guitar
2. Attempt to play stairway to heaven
3. Proceed to get kicked out
4. Steal a pick on the way out

[ihih]

No one:
Marty: *T H I S I S T H E K I N D S L A S H H A S*

[rhsking]

“Marty, who is a professional guitar sniffer, and Phillip is an expert instrument pointer.”
lol, love it. this intro is great!

[gersongomez]

This is the type of show I would probably see on PBS at 2:00 am.

[kyleh]

I’m a guitar sniffer too!! But not professional 😞

[ryanbaines]

The man who taught me how to play guitar and whom I watched tons of his videos when I was a kid only lived 20 minutes away from me? Crazy

[classicrockcollector]

How to buy a first guitar-
1. Birthday
2. Christmas
3. Beg
4. Job
5. Give up

[rayross]

My first guitar (used) cost $14.00 & my older brother sold it for booze. Still hurts 50 years later. Wish I still had it. Thanks guys for another great video.

[the_original_Bilb_Ono]

I'm a professional cheap guitar player, it's all i will play. Anything above 900$ is not for my style. If I sold all my cheap guitars I could buy a couple American fenders, but I prefer my guitar to match it's owner - a cheap asshole.

[RenoNuski]

My first guitar was a 1976 Tele and I hated it because it bruised my bony teenage ribs.
I sold it to my best friend and got a SG. I do still have visiting rights to my Tele and it still bruises my bony old man ribs. lol.

[hazmansharuddin]

“ having you is the best part of this”








Bro.

[tucoalvares]

Im from Brazil and I think is really cool when our nacional products get featured in a American channel

[dylanbesaw]

Hey marty I really think you should make a video and show us all your gear I cant be the only one who thinks this

[JohnOhkumaThiel]

Phillip: Brazil has a massive population of people of Japanese heritage, hence Japanese brand names for Brazilian products. They actually have a national holiday recognizing the mass immigration from Japan to Brazil, and those of Japanese heritage have automatic Japanese citizenship—which is why there is also a massive Brazilian population in Japan.

Both you guys taught me everything I needed to know to walk in a store one day, determined to go home with a guitar, and pick the one that I would be happy with at least as I learn the basics. I went to two thrift shops and a music store that day, back and forth between the three, and ended up with a Japanese stratocaster type ‘Selder’ that has a couple of deep scratches in it but seems otherwise to have been untouched telling by the even layer of stubborn grime and antique looking strings. I kid you not, it was $30.

It needed a lot of clean up, but it’s been a good guitar that I’ve been able to not only learn how to play, but since it’s so cheap I’m not worried about messing something up as I learn how to maintain, upgrade, and repair it. By the time I get my next guitar, I’ll know what I’m doing.

[metalhed]

Marty: picks up beginner guitar and “shreds” to try it out.
Beginner: picks up Beginner guitar and makes no recognizable tune to “try it out”.

[chrisdurham]

It's great to see you guys collaborating - hope it happens some more

[RCSmiths]

I see Philip and Marty in a collab, I am all for it! Cheers for the advice!

[paulleedean]

Epic concept for the video along with flawless execution. This video is funny in the way it makes fun of other TV shows yet informative. Keep up the great work, Marty. I also enjoy watching Phil in your videos. He is a cool dude. Cheers, guys!!