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I would argue a beginner should start with an acoustic for precisely the same reason. Transitioning from electric or classical to acoustic is difficult, but fro
by austenallred 14y ago
I would argue a beginner should start with an acoustic for precisely the same reason. Transitioning from electric or classical to acoustic is difficult, but from acoustic to the other two is very simple.
- pytrin 14y agoIt's certainly not difficult once you are proficient enough. I got my first acoustic after 2 years playing a classical guitar and 1 year playing an electric one. It was very similar to playing a classical guitar once your fingers are broken in. On the other hand, for beginners which usually struggle at first producing clean sounds, an acoustic presents a much bigger challenge and for no added benefits.
- dbaupp 14y agoIsn't this a similar argument to "people should learn to program with machine code/assembler/C because it's easy to move to other languages then"?
- AlecSchueler 14y agoThe difference isn't really as big as that. It'd be like starting with Perl and then moving onto Ruby or Python.
- austenallred 14y agoI would say its like starting with Python and moving to JavaScript. It really isn't that much more difficult.
- geoka9 14y agoYes, something like that. If you are proficient with the acoustic guitar, you'll probably be able to pick up an electric for the first time in your life and play. On the other hand, if all you've ever played is an electric (with its low action and lighter strings), playing an acoustic will probably require some time getting used to. I would compare electric to something like Python and acoustic to C :)