What guitar wood is best for fingerstyle?

Cedar. Especially when used as a soundboard material, cedar is often favoured by guitarists who play fingerstyle. The content is favoured likely because it has many of the desirable characteristics of spruce, but without the extra high end that most fingerstyle players dislike.

How can I make my fingerstyle sound better?

Try to implement each one into your playing where appropriate and your playing will sound slicker and more professional for it.

1. Keep your nails at a consistent length.
2. Highlight those bass notes.
3. Prioritise the melody notes.
4. Do not lose the groove.
5. Work on the picking hand’s muscle memory.
6. Don’t be afraid of rubato.

Are mahogany guitars good for fingerpicking?

I do some fingerpicking and some strumming (different types of music but mainly singer/songwriter stuff. Much of it is my own originals, but the all mahogany guitars work great for all of it. If I were to own only one guitar (perish the thought) it would be one of those.

What makes a good soundboard?

The All-Important Soundboard “In general terms, the top seems to affect the guitar’s responsiveness, the quickness of its attack, its sustain, some of its overtone coloration, and the strength and quality of each note’s fundamental tone,” Bourgeois notes.

Which is better rosewood or mahogany?

Rosewood is much denser/harder and stronger than mahogany. This is why it is also used a lot for bridges and fingerboards. Rosewood also has strong mids like Mahogany but it expands its tonal range in both directions – it produces pronounced lows and crisp highs.

Is solid mahogany good for guitar?

As a guitar top, dense mahogany has a solid, punchy tone with low overtone content and good high-end response. Mahogany back and sides often emphasize bass and treble, with more overtone coloration and a “woody” sound (as opposed to the more metallic sound of, say, rosewood back and sides).

What are 5 examples of tone woods?

Guitar Tone Woods

• Body Woods. Alder.
• Basswood. Inexpensive tone wood, which is easy to work with in the factory, easy to cut, sand and finish.
• Mahogany. Mahogany, mainly used in the acoustic world, for back and sides.
• Swamp Ash. Ash is available in two types: Northern (hard) or Southern (soft).
• Walnut.
• Koa.
• Maple.
• Rosewood.

Is mahogany stronger than spruce?

Mahogany’s stronger than spruce. Side/back woods are usually more dense than the topwood. However, Mahogany is light enough and strong enough to be used as a topwood.