Which Guitar to use for Guitar Playing Lessons?

There are quite a few variations, but only three major types of guitar that you will look at when beginning guitar lessons. They are Classical Acoustic, Acoustic, and Electric.

If you are borrowing a guitar to get started with your first guitar playing lessons, then there's a good chance that it's an old classical acoustic guitar or possibly a steel string acoustic.

Electric guitars are a bit more complex, needing accessories like leads, amps, speakers and power. The acoustic guitars are simple, only needing a pick to play.

The other great thing about acoustic guitars is that you can't turn them up loud. While first learning you only want your sound to be loud enought to hear what you are playing, both errors and good performances.

The guitar you end up choosing will be guided by the type of music you want to play.

Select a song that you like the guitar sound in. Listen carefully to how the guitar sounds in the song. Are they clean, soft sounds? Or do they sound distorted, harsh or heavy? Acoustic guitars normally have a clean, soft sound. Electric guitars are boosted by amplifiers and other special effects that cause their sound to become heavy and distorted. How hard are the strings being strummed? Are separate notes being picked out? The harder you play, the thicker your strings need to be. You need to know what style you want to play.

OK you have found a style of music that you like. If you can, see if you can get a copy of the video of the band actually playing the song and replay it a few times. There will probably be a section in there where the band is playing. In this part, look at the guitarist. Are they playing an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar? What brand is it? What style? If you can identify the precise guitar from the clip, then when you go to your local guitar shop ask if you can play it to see if it suits you.

There are lots of individual reasons for playing guitar and taking guitar lessons Once you know what you want from your guitar, then most of these decisions will beome simple To help figure out what you like in guitar music, play a variety of music. Ask musicians at music shops about what kind of guitars different bands use, or ask them what kind of amps/effects those artists use to get that sound.

Don't rush to make the choice of the type of guitar to buy, take time to think about what you are hearing and what you are learning about how to play with the type of sound you like.

The best way is to borrow the basic acoustic guitar from a buddy, take some online guitar playing lessons, take notice of what music you like to listen to, and to play yourself and then use that time to arrive at a conclusion what make of guitar will suit you.