Beginner at all types of guitars?

Question: Beginner at all types of guitars!?

Ok so I want to eventually play electric guitar and be good at it!. My dad thinks I should first play an acoustic guitar for 6 months, practice playing the acoustic guitar for the period of time and then get an electric guitar!. He says it will help the adjustment!. He also said playing an electric guitar without any experience with guitars my hands will get sore and maybe even bleed!. So I think what has said is a good idea!. Do you guys think it is a good idea, to start off with an acoustic guitar and then get an electric guitar!. I really want to learn about music, you know I know nothing about notes and such!. I want to maybe even have a band later in life!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Your father must be a former guitar player or still plays without you knowing!.

Yes get the acoustic first!. Why!? Because it will build up your fingers to play electric the best!. All the great guitarists play with acoustic and electric and will tell you they started off with the acoustic guitar!. I am one of them guitarists (I am not the best)!.

The electric guitar has lighter more thin and smooth strings where the acoustic guitar has thicker strings to build up your finger tips to endure longer playing time!.

The light gauge of acoustic is typically 11 gauge!. Sometimes you can find 10 gauge!.
The light gauge on electric guitar is 09 gauge!. The lightest is 08 gauge!.

Trust me you can get an acoustic guitar for cheat also and see if you like the guitar first also so you do not waste all that money thinking you want to play!.

With electric guitar all the stuff needed to play it great will start to cost you some decent cash!.

Stick with an acoustic all you need is the guitar!. With electric you can play it without an amp but it is quiet and soft!. With the amp costs cables and effects you wish you will be working afew jobs at your age to pay for them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

you're dad is so right!.

acoustic is easier to begin with!.

playing any guitar hurts your fingers at first, but don't worry, you'll build up callouses on your finger tips if you play regularly, and it won't hurt anymore!. (you can also get softer strings for when you are first beginning)

you need to learn chords and stuff like that (which sound great on an acoustic)before you can start to do tabs and pick and all that good stuff!. (which is what sounds best on an electric guitar!.)

plus, then you'll have two guitars! (like me!)

anyway, i just find my acoustic more relaxing, it's fun to play, whereas it takes a little more skill to play an electric well!.

good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your father is correct; start on an acoustic to get the basic chord structures, progressions, and the building of your calluses!. If you cannot get past the hurting fingertips then you won't be motivated sufficiently to learn and play the guitar!.

I learned on an old LG-3 Gibson, using mediums and heavy-gauge strings!. I recommend keeping the acoustic for at least two years before graduating to an electric!.

Say, "Thank you," and "Dad, you're right!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's probably "better" to start with the acoustic, it will make your fingers tougher and it will make playing the electric easier later on!. However, if you want to rock out you might lose interest in the acoustic and give up!. It's more difficult to play the acoustic, but the rewards are there as well!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

it depends what kinda music ur into!. im into metal and all that fun stuff so i just started on electric!. if ur into like most other music then you might wana start with acoustic because your probaly going to use chords more often than just picking or power chords!. hmmm and ur hand shouldn't bleed unless you have a medical problem but ur fingers will hurt for like the first week or two!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Acoustic is good to start off with, helps build your calices on your fingers!. You also don't have much to an acoustic except the strings, unlike an electric with all the extra effects and stuff!. Either way I don't think it matters too much!. Good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com

honestly either way you'll be fine
I think it's also a good idea, but it will take time getting used to the strings on your fingers!. when I first started it hurt a lot to press on them cause you have to build up calluses

good luck though, glad to hear you're into musicWww@QuestionHome@Com

Acoustic is harder than electric but it will strengthen your fingers much more than any electric and your fingertips will toughen!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I would totally shred that electric guitar!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thats exactly what my parents said!
I think their right!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

u needa play it for more than 6 months first!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

First: Most of the accredited guitar teachers do recommend
an acoustic guitar (nylon-strings) to beginner players!.

One main reason is that nylon-strings guitars
(also known as "classical") are much easier on the fingers
than the other acoustic steel-strings instrument!.
In addition nylon-strings are almost always played with "bare"
fingers - no"pick" and this way your fingering get to improve
your skills needed to play arpeggios (no chords) in the
melody part of a song!.

Acoustic steel-string guitars are almost always played with
a "pick" and is the preferred type for "chords" players that
seldom play the melody part of a song!.
The "pick" is used also because steel-strings are very hard
(punishing) on your fingers and a beginners student won't
last 30 minutes playing with "bare" fingers!.

Both types of acoustics can play and do anything that
the "electric" guitar can do!. The difference will be in the
overall sound projected!.
Classical (nylon-strings) produced a "mellower" darker sound
Steel-strings Acoustics produce a "britter-metalic" sound

Electric guitars produce (via the amplifier) a louder
sound but the sound will vary with the quality
of amplifier used!.

This is an area where a Very good amplifier
makes a mediocre electric sound Very Good
and a poor amplifier makes a good
electric sound not-so-good

If you ever decide on an electric try the same
guitar with two different-rated amplifiers and
you will notice the difference!.

Overall I think that your Dad is correct in his suggestion and
perhaps after you try an acoustic you may find that you will
like it well enough to keep improving your skills with it!.

Good Luck and Enjoy your guitar playing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com