Most veteran guitar players will tell you that all you need to become a skilled guitarist is a relatively simple instrument that can stir your interest sufficiently that you want to keep playing. Then you get obsessed keep playing and eventually you?re a guitarist. That?s what happened to Eric Clapton and Eddie Van Halen and it can happen to you. And while this Yamaha guitar is meant for starters the quality is such that the music will sound great. It features mahogany sides a rosewood fingerboard and bridge closed chrome tuners and a strap. There?s a DVD that comes with it that will teach the basic chords to get you started as well as some fingering techniques that will help ramp up the skills.