So I'm learning Electric guitar

[Whoda]

The cheapest way to start playing the guitar is an acoustic. I would strongly recommend that.

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[King Leo]

Also, you really have to pay for quality
cheap = usually bad guitar
expensive = usually good guitar

So if you're serious about learning the guitar, maybe you should pay 100$ (or whatever currency you use) extra to get a decent guitar. If you buy a cheap guitar that is impossible to play on, you'll lose interest in playing and think you're a lousy guitarist (even if it's partially the guitars fault)

Last, but not least. Bring a buddy who already plays guitar (maybe even your guitar teacher? :O) with you when you buy a guitar. He can hopefully tell you the difference between a guitar worth buying and a cool-looking guitar that sounds like crap.

[Whoda]

I started and begun to play guitar with a cheap acoustic one.
I enjoyed playing on it and still play on it. I even play more on it then on my E-Guitar.

[King Leo]

I started and begun to play guitar with a cheap acoustic one.
I enjoyed playing on it and still play on it. I even play more on it then on my E-Guitar.

Same

[ShadowsfeaR]

I play some guitar, I can play a few death metal songs. But I don't know chords or anything. Personally I just learn my music through tabs.

[Malestrom]

I'm not learning acoustic first because I only need to learn chords and stuff so I can write. I'm in a band, and that's all I need to learn.

[Monocle]

If you play piano, you won't really need guitar lessons. The sheet music for piano is the same as it is for guitar. Just google up a chord chart and hop to it.

[lonely shadow]

1. don't get starter guitar packs, they suck.
2. IMHO teaching yourself is better than being taught by a teacher due to you being able to learn anytime and go at your own pace, i also recommend getting a good handbook on guitars, i have one by Ralph Denyer its lasted me 5 years since i started playing.
3. as for amps, you should look for combo amps that have built in effects, instead of buying all the pedals. Roland Cube combos are very good for starters, i got one and its very good and has lasted, if you get the cube aim for the 20XL and above. Line 6 do good small combos so check them out.
4. now for buying a guitar, if you want an SG or a Les Paul then go for the epiphones because its a Gibson without a few Gibson touches like the tuning pegs and headstock, also the Pickups. Ibanez have good cheap guitars for sale look for the Japanese built GIO series Ibanez guitars because they are VERY good quality and are cheap! If you can go for something that's more than £250, then you can find good fender squier guitars and ESP guitars. now if you want to go from £400 up to £700 then you can get a classic Epiphone Les Paul Standard and high quality reissued Fenders, all the way to i Gibson SG.


I Highly Doubt you want to spend £3,999 on one of Eric Claptons Fenders. I've played guitar for 5 years so i now what im on about.

[Night Fox]

If you play piano, you won't really need guitar lessons. The sheet music for piano is the same as it is for guitar. Just google up a chord chart and hop to it.

Flutes too.

dat concert key

[Monocle]

Flutes too.

dat concert key

Yeah. Piano is by far the most helpful instrument you could ever learn. Seeing as how most people can't hit every note in the spectrum perfectly.

[Malestrom]

If you play piano, you won't really need guitar lessons. The sheet music for piano is the same as it is for guitar. Just google up a chord chart and hop to it.

so I dot really need lessons?

1. don't get starter guitar packs, they suck.
2. IMHO teaching yourself is better than being taught by a teacher due to you being able to learn anytime and go at your own pace, i also recommend getting a good handbook on guitars, i have one by Ralph Denyer its lasted me 5 years since i started playing.
3. as for amps, you should look for combo amps that have built in effects, instead of buying all the pedals. Roland Cube combos are very good for starters, i got one and its very good and has lasted, if you get the cube aim for the 20XL and above. Line 6 do good small combos so check them out.
4. now for buying a guitar, if you want an SG or a Les Paul then go for the epiphones because its a Gibson without a few Gibson touches like the tuning pegs and headstock, also the Pickups. Ibanez have good cheap guitars for sale look for the Japanese built GIO series Ibanez guitars because they are VERY good quality and are cheap! If you can go for something that's more than £250, then you can find good fender squier guitars and ESP guitars. now if you want to go from £400 up to £700 then you can get a classic Epiphone Les Paul Standard and high quality reissued Fenders, all the way to i Gibson SG.


I Highly Doubt you want to spend £3,999 on one of Eric Claptons Fenders. I've played guitar for 5 years so i now what im on about.

You are my savior.

[Night Fox]

Yeah. Piano is by far the most helpful instrument you could ever learn. Seeing as how most people can't hit every note in the spectrum perfectly.

I learned saxophone before piano.
I didn't even really learn piano, but since I can read sheet music and know the key positions, and already play an instrument, I might as well say that I know how to play piano, since I can.
Now, if I can memorize a song on one of them, I can play it by memory on the other too.
I learned God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen on piano, and can play it on saxophone.
It's actually a pretty cool thing to be able to do.

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I'm great at Guitar Hero :D

Eeeh..

[Malestrom]

Uuuh.
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I'm great at Guitar Hero :D

Eeeh..

D'aww you don't play any instruments.

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I'm actually trying to play C140 "calm3" on my synthesiser.
But I'll need a piano.