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Position:Home>Performing Arts> Guitar question here?Question: Guitar question here!? I have been playing guitar ofr about 8 months without an amp, i play and electric ibanez and like i said i do not use an amp!. People tell me playing an accoustic guitar is harder then electric and that if you can play an accoustic guitar well you can play an electric guitar very well, so my question is: Because i don't use an amp(sounds, effects, speakers) am i going to be better when i finally do get an amp!? Like playing with an accoustic for 8 months!.!.!.!.!.kinda!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Firstly, no, that doesn't mean you play like an ''acoustic'' if you don't use an amp!.!.!.you still play electric!. There might be a profit, however, that you'll be able to hear better what you play and correct your fails, because what you do is ''what you play is what you get''!. (However, this would be true if you used an amp, too!.!.!.!.but no distortion, just clean sound)!. But nope, it's not like playing an acoustic!. Now, they say acoustic is harder!. Those are probably people who can play a few chords on AG but can't really ''play the AG'' - this means mastering the whole instrument!. Well yes, AG uses harder strings, but EG has its tricky parts too!. Both are equally difficule if you wanna play them really well!.!.!.if you wanna ''play them''!. Oh and thirdly, ''if you can play acoustic, you can play an electric'' is not really true!. There is a bit of truth about it, but electric guitar is played differently than acoustic, so now switching to an AG would bring you a handful of unnecessary bad habbits - e!.g!. holding the guitar like on acoustic (with your thumb always behing the fretboard) cannot be applied to EG, that'll destroy your tone and disable you to use some of the techniques that are not used on classical acoustic, like string bending!.!.!.an so on, so no it's not really true, that if you can play acoustic, you can play an EG too!. Of course, if you're playing an AG for some time, you definitely have calouses and your fingers are a bit more moveable!.!.!.!.but you already possess these two qualities, so it's not good for you to switch to acoustic!.Www@QuestionHome@Com A guitar is a guitar!. Period!.!. If oyu can play acoustic, you can play electric!. Nowadays, many electric guitarist but light gauge strings on their Acoustic guitar to make it easier to play and bend the string!. The difference in electric is that you can apply techniques and effects that is harder if tried on the Acoustic!. Ex!.!.!.!.finger tapping, slurs, pull-offs and hammer-ons!. Today, many good guitarist use up and down arpeggios which is always performed better on electric!. Take your pick!. The sercret is to pick each note with an up & down stroke or you can cheat with hammer-ons and pull off which basically do the same job!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Hmm will you play better!? I doubt it!. I think it would just sound a thousand times better because you can hear the real volume and tone!. It will at least give you the incentive to keep playing and get better!. The reason people say playing an acoustic is more difficult is that the strings are thicker and theres not as much slack!. The electric has much more slack and thinner strings which gives the fingers a break if you are used to the acoustic strings!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |