starter instruments Archives

Music Go Round STL Favorite: Top 3 Starter Bass Guitars

December 22, 2020 by MGRSTL

There is no better time to start learning a new instrument! Music Go Round St. Louis offers new players an affordable alternative to renting instruments like guitars, thanks to our trade-in and trade up program. Here are the top three starter bass guitars that we think you will love: Best All-Around Budget Bass Guitar The Ibanez miKro GSRM20 is a compact bass guitar with a … [Read more...]

Pickups – Vary Your Tones!

No, not Chevys, Fords and Dodges. Guitar pickups. Magnets, wire and plastic that make glorious tones by supercharging the single the string vibrations make. Hand, String, Pickup, Electric – GLORY. Those squares and tubular coils on all those instruments are varied and different for various reasons. They offer you differences in clarity, girth, sparkle, fatness, […]

Look At All That Gold!

Cymbals baby! To a drummer – brass is GOLD. And there is certainly a LOT of gold in these hills… We’ve had drummers from all over who have been to some of the biggest drum shops in the US – and they have said our cymbal selection is as good as theirs is – but […]

Keyboards!

We talk about guitars and drums and their associated gear quite a bit. But MGR STL also has an amazing selection of that other stage staple – the KEYBOARD! We often have high end pro rigs like Kurzweil, Roland, Hammond, Korg, Nord, etc. And we filter down to the best intermediate and beginner keyboards as […]

Your First Guitar !

It’s hard to describe the power of a first guitar. (Or any first instrument for that matter.) It is for many, a watershed moment. Joy, anticipation, admiration. So many emotions accompany a musical instrument. And the first one carries just a little more weight. When do you get a first guitar? That’s easy – NOW. […]