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<h1 style="display: inline;">The Nitty Gritty:</h1>
Every person that has made the comittment to learn to play and perform music using the guitar must start with one or more tools needed to elicit sound from the instrument. The following tools consist of a set of items that every new guitar player should obtain and use to learn how to tune the instrument and how to elicit sound from it.
Granted some players –many in fact– use no such tools at all; they have learned to tune the instrument using old school methods and they strum and finger pick using the fingernails and the flesh of their hand. This article recognizes that with the caveat that the following tools make it possible for those new to the instrument to have a set of tools that will provide them with options that will allow them to find and feel their way for themselves while having at hand what is used by professional musicians to elicit the broadest range of sound from this particular stringed instrument.