What are the differences between acoustic guitar and electric guitar ?

Question

1 . what are the differences between acoustic guitar and electric guitar ?

2 . when you play one of them , can you also play the other one or you have to take different classes ?

3 . if yes , Is it atleast easier to learn acoustic when you know electric ?

Answer 1

Electric guitars hav pickups which turns the strumming of the strings into sound, to play an electric guitar you need an amp.

Acoustic guitars are your normal guitar with a hole in it, no electricity needed.

Once you know how to play one you can easily play the other.

Yes its easier.

Their both guitars the principle of 6 strings is still the same.

Answer 2

The difference is that, acoustic is more of a strumming soft sounding guitar, when electric guitar is when you can rock out to the loud sound of an electric guitar.

Answer 3

electrics are easier to learn. They have uh..."softer" strings on average, so they don't hurt your fingers. They also can be a lot quieter than acoustics, as most practice amps and amp modelers have headphone-outs. There's even cheap foot-pedals from companies like Behringer that make your electric sound like an acoustic.

Answer 4

There are two types of acoustic... steel stringed and classical or Spanish style nylon stringed... but there are also steel stringed electric/acoustic guitars.  Acoustics rely on the body cavity to amplify the sound and resonate through the tone wood.

Electric guitars are either semi-hollow or solid bodied and rely on the magnetic pickups to translate the string vibration into an electric signal for an amplifier to "amplify" and send through a speaker or 2 or 4 or...   The guitar/amp instrument of course gives you a lot of playability options with tone and distortion, reverb, etc...

Being able to play either type of guitar usually translates to playing any other, but... a lot people have bad habits that are masked by the nature of the electric guitar, and won't be when they play acoustic.  So to go from acoustic to electric I would argue is easier.