Guitar Question

[hank05]

Heyy everyone :rotate:

I'm just wondering if you guys could help me out with this :

Suggest a good-for-beginners electric-acoustic guitar :D
*also mention the price if possible*

[BrightSpark]

Suggest a good-for-beginners electric-acoustic guitar
none.
why do you want to start on an electro-acoustic? surely either an electric(yamahas are extremely good beginner guitars because they are remarkably good quality and reasonably priced) or an acoustic will be better.
if you are just beginning to play the instrument, do not start on anything fancy or expensive. but don't get something thats dirt cheap either because it will fall apart in no time, relatively speaking.

[hank05]

electro-acoustic are acoustic guitars...but only with the difference that u can plug it to a pedal or amp , am I right??

[BrightSpark]

electro-acoustic are acoustic guitars...but only with the difference that u can plug it to a pedal or amp , am I right??
you're right. but none that are for beginners.

[the_Terrminator]

Try Gibson or Fender acoustic guitars with pick-up/amps or if you really want to get nasty, buy an ESP KH-2 heavy metal guitars.but seriously, try Gibson Les Paul

[Sanzo_D]

start with electric guitar. its more fun

[ThreeX]

Actually Rory Gallagher recommended (and I agree) start with acoustic guitar and work out your fingers on that, THEN move on to a electric guitar.
RE: acoustics with built in mics not for beginners.. I honestly can?t figure one good reason why not?! There are excellent guitars out there equally suited for beginners or pro?s. Sigma by Martin and Takamine spring to mind and there are loads of others as well.

[BrightSpark]

Actually Rory Gallagher recommended (and I agree) start with acoustic guitar and work out your fingers on that, THEN move on to a electric guitar.
RE: acoustics with built in mics not for beginners.. I honestly can?t figure one good reason why not?! There are excellent guitars out there equally suited for beginners or pro?s. Sigma by Martin and Takamine spring to mind and there are loads of others as well.
because acoustics are damn awful for starting on. i tried to start on an acoustic, but it was a totally painful experience. then i bought an electric, and then realised why everyone was saying to start on an electric instead.
on an acoustic, the action is far too high and stiff, the body is miles too wide for comfort, the strings are like tyre innertubes(hence why the action always has to be higher than on an electric), the neck tends to be wider, it's really difficult to get it to sound nice, and it's just a totally painful experience.

an electric makes learning the guitar a breeze. an acoustic makes learning the guitar unnecessary painful and almost like a chore.

[Memzee]

It depends on the style of music you want to play.

I started with a 3/4 size nylon string acoustic that cost me ?20. :D

[ThreeX]

Well if you?re a tit and don?t have the patience/stamina to learn to play properly anyways, by all means buy a electric guitar ;) :p
A free advice: If you?re bothered by a "western" (as opposed to spanish, nylon stringed) steel stringed acoustic, don?t ever try mandolin/mandola/bouzouki.. (i did, splendid finger workout, except the different tuning mess up your learning the guitar)

[Memzee]

I've got an electro-acoustic and a spanish guitar.. and bouzouki too. I don't find the difference in string tuning hard with the bouzouki.. it's the co-ordination with all the rapid pick work and finger board movement.

Practice makes perfect though. ;)

[ThreeX]

Do you play Greek music/tuning or Irish (GDAE/ADAD) on the bouzouki? I have only played irish..

[hasan_tarazena]

its better to start with accoustic to improve the strength of your left hand fingers,
after that buy a beginner's package like yamaha (i dont remeber its name but it somes with amp too) and stat practicing alot
until you Reach mastering the guitar level , buy something good (depends on the style you want to play) also buy a nice multi-effect (like boss gt-8),
the important thing that you have to practice alot .