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i wanna make a rock band but i dont know which guitar to buy both acoustic and electric interest me. i was thinking of buying acoustic since i see the band “the veronicas” using acoustic guitars, or maybe an electric guitar.
which one do you reccomend?

My aim is to learn the acoustic guitar and then move on to the bass guitar.
I was thinking about buying the Yamaha FG700 acoustic but then i was given advice saying that Yamaha is crap and the Johnson acoustic guitars are better and cheaper.
I want to make sure that when i finally buy my acoustic guitar, i don’t start wishing i bought a different one.

Maybe you are a Guitar Hero game player, but now you think you want to learn to play a real guitar? The guitar hero game is fun, but it doesn’t teach you to play the guitar. Maybe you’ve been thinking that to be able to play the guitar and perform for others would be something you’d like to do.

Learning to play an instrument takes work – you don’t really get to “play” at it until you learn the basics and practice. Then, after you’ve learned to play some chords and you’ve learned a song or two, the fun starts. I know because I learned to play the guitar when I was ten years old! I learned to play some chords that you can use for many songs. That is a good way to start – you’ll feel that you accomplished something. For example, if you learn these chords: C, G. and D, there are many, many easy guitar songs that use them.

Online videos teach you various things such as tuning the guitar and changing strings (and look up the parts of the guitar – it’s good to learn that). There are beginner lessons on videos that can teach about guitar chords.

How hard is it to learn a song?

When I learned to play guitar, I had a guitar teacher and used some guitar chord books. Now that was quite a while ago and today there are so many other options to get guitar lessons for beginners. I know that the online lessons are good. But this has not changed: a quick way to learn is to learn one song. After that, learning the second and third song will be much easier!

What kind of guitar should you have?

Lots of beginning guitar players start with an acoustic guitar and many start with what is considered a classical guitar.(See this article about guitars).  A basic difference between those two types of guitars is the kind of strings – acoustic guitars have steel strings and classical (or folk) guitars have nylon strings. Believe me, the nylon strings are much easier to start out with because they don’t hurt your fingers as much!

Either kind of guitar is great to learn to play with. Some people start with electric guitar, especially if their goal is to play electric guitar in a rock band. For some kinds of music, an acoustic guitar is better, you’ll just have to decide what kind of music you want to play and get the guitar that is best for it.

So, go get a guitar, but don’t get a really cheap one. Make sure you hear the guitar played first. If you have to get someone in the guitar store to play it, then do that. Or take a friend with you that knows about guitars. Then, start learning your first song. You will become your own guitar hero!

So maybe you have just graduated from beginner guitar class and you have decided that you want to ramp it up, or you simply just want to try a different kind of play style with a different guitar; what do you do?

You go out and pick out any guitar at your local music store, or online, friend and you start playing. Well, that maybe true if you know exactly what you are doing. But for those of you that might want a little more insight on this, read on.

How many types of guitars are there? I think that if one was to give an accurate answer to that question they would be lying. What I am saying is that there are quite bit out there. But we are just going to focus on the popularly used.

Most of the popularly known guitars are: acoustic, bass, electric. Though there are others like: banjo, steel guitar, Hawaiian guitar and many others. For our current purpose, we are just to stick to the top three.

Acoustic guitars are the most preferred guitars for beginners because of their ease of operation. Under the acoustic, we can further drill down. The acoustic electrical, which has a body similar to that of an acoustic, but does not have the sound hole (because it is electric).

Then we have the acoustic bass guitar. In comparison to the traditional acoustic that we know, it has the similar body with a sound hole; albeit there two major differences that can be noted. The neck on the acoustic bass is really long and it usually has only four thick strings.

Classical acoustic guitar (nylon string or Spanish guitar), are just like the acoustic, but the difference comes in with the headstock. The classical acoustic headstock has two openings on either side that have cylinders connected to the tuning heads.

The bass guitar is an instrument after my own heart; I really like it because of its long neck and smooth body. This instrument is similar to the acoustic bass; the difference comes in with the sound hole. The bass guitar does not have the sound hole, but all the other parts are the same as acoustic bass.

The last guitar that I am going to talk about is the electric guitar. The electric guitar is something else in my opinion. Even here we have many different kinds. We have the six, seven, eight and twelve stringed electric guitars. Not only that, but we also have the double necked instrument; which to me is quite creative I guess.

The one that I really think had some thought process behind it is the six stringed, V shaped electric guitar. If you know it, I think you will agree with me that it is absolutely amazing.

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Beginning guitarists often wonder whether there are differences between how to play acoustic guitar versus electric guitar. The short answer is: ‘Yes and No’.

Acoustic guitars and electric guitars are identical in terms of how the notes are laid out on the fretboard. All your chords and scales are in the exact same place. Both guitars can be picked, plucked and strummed.

Where they differ is in their construction and playability. Generally speaking, acoustic guitars have heavier, less flexible strings. What this means for you is that you’ll need to build up a bit more strength in your fretting hand in order to play an acoustic guitar.

Although the strength building will take a bit longer, it will pay off if you decide to play on an electric guitar with lighter strings. You’ll be able to fly across an electric on string gauges that your average electric player considers ‘heavy’.

Another thing to understand about acoustic guitar is that it’s characteristic sound changes the type of music that sounds best on it. If you’re into ‘death metal’, for example, it’s going to sound completely different when played acoustically because you don’t have distortion and you don’t (usually) have access to higher notes (14th fret and above) used in those screaming solos.

Speaking of distortion and other effects, it is possible to use effects on an acoustic, but you have to create an extra set up.

The first option is to play your acoustic in front of a microphone that’s run through an effect pedal and into a regular guitar amplifier. The second option is to have your guitar equipped with a small ‘pickup’ mic, and wired out with an input jack so that you can plug directly into an amp.

Last but not least, keep in mind that acoustic guitars don’t have ‘moveable’ bridge systems the way electric guitars do. There’s no ‘whammy bar’ on an acoustic.

Keeping in mind the points mentioned above, you can rest assured that learning how to play acoustic guitar is the same as learning to play electric: all you need to do is learn your scales and chords, then practice ’til your fingers bleed!

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