Thinking of learning guitar?

Question

I was wondering if i pick up Acoustic guitar will it be easier for me to learn electric guitar

Answer 1

Noo! This is a common mistake for first time guitar players to make. Electric IS easier to play. The reason being, the strings are easier to press to the frets. An accoustic guitar, everything is done manually, making it very important you press those strings all the way they can go, in order to get the notes to play. An electric guitar is mostly made for playing.. well, electrically. The strings are not as difficult to press down, making it the ideal choice for the beginner!

Answer 2

YES.  YES YES YES and more YES.  Acoustic is 1000x harder than electric in every aspect.  Learn on one.  Now.  It'll give you waaaaay better finger strength to begin with, and it really tests your devotion to wanting to learn guitar.  Sure, it'll hurt, it'll be painful, it'll make you want to quit.  But after all that it's so worth it.

Answer 3

Ahhhh, the age old question.

My answer?  Start with the instrument you want to eventually play.  If your end goal is to play and electric, then start with an electric.  Same for acoustic.  

Don't get hung up on philosophy of each instrument at this point, just have fun.

Answer 4

Jeez!

Why can't anyone comprehend that electric guitar and acoustic guitar are essentially the same thing!

If you can play one, you can play the other. The only thing that makes them different in difficulty is the style you choose. If you choose to play like punk on the electric guitar there is not much difference in difficulty. But if you choose to play like metal, it will be much more difficult to play electric. But if you choose to play like Folk on the acoustic it will be very hard either way!

Answer 5

As you can see, there are a few different points of view on this subject. Here's mine:

Yes, you have to press the strings down harder on an acoustic guitar.  But that's all.  If you're a beginner, the true hard part will be learning finger coordination, chords, etc.  Pressing a little harder will be the easiest part.

And the way I look it, if you start with the acoustic, you'll have no problem switching to electric one day.  If you can jam on an acoustic, you can definitely jam on an electric, but not necessarily vice-versa.