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What Guitar to Start with as a Beginner

By Chris Moresby

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As a beginning guitarist, you should play an acoustic guitar. Unless the only guitar at your disposal is electric, the acoustic guitar is going to provide you with simplicity, better physical dexterity, and is a more practical investment than an electric guitar.

First of all, the acoustic guitar is a simpler instrument for the beginner. While electric guitars have tone and volume knobs and pickup selector adjustments, the body of an acoustic guitar is free of clutter and allows you to just play without worrying about anything else. Furthermore, electric guitars require the use of an amplifier, which is just something else to make learning the guitar more complicated than it needs to be. The amplifier invites you to make all sorts of adjustments to get a particular sound, and in doing so you run the risk of focusing too much attention on fiddling with the knobs on your amp and not enough on actually developing your ability to play. In addition, acoustic guitars allow beginners a better opportunity to develop physically as guitar players. No matter what kind of guitar you begin with--acoustic or electric--your fingers and hands will experience some discomfort as they become accustomed to pressing down hard on strings and stretching to fit into the appropriate positions on the fingerboard. With an acoustic guitar, this discomfort is greater as the the strings are heavier than electric guitar strings and require more force to press. While this may make playing the guitar more difficult for a brief period of time when one begins with an acoustic instrument, those who begin with electric guitars may later find it difficult to play an acoustic as their hands and fingers are used to playing on lighter strings. In turn, those who have gained experience playing acoustic guitars will find the electric guitar easy to play and will quickly adapt to the differences in technique of which the other type of guitar allows them to take advantage.

Not only that, but acoustic guitars tend to be less expensive than electric guitars. With an electric guitar, one must also purchase an amplifier and cables in order to hear the instrument make any sound whereas an acoustic guitar is, by its very nature, ready for you to enjoy without any accessories. Being more affordable is always a plus, but this also makes the acoustic guitar a more practical investment if one decides that taking up the guitar is too time-consuming, difficult, or just otherwise decides he or she doesn't want to play any more. For kids, whose whims are always guiding them toward different activities, it makes much more sense to see how they do on an acoustic guitar before jumping to an electric guitar and all of the additional equipment one requires. Of course, if one develops proficiency with the acoustic guitar and enjoys playing, then moving on to an electric guitar certainly provides the ability to experiment with new sounds. If one has the choice, however, beginning with an acoustic guitar certainly has benefits.

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