Which Guitar to use for Guitar Playing Lessons?

When you start looking for a guitar for your guitar lessons you will find there are three main types. 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.

The acoustic guitar is great to learn on, the only accessory you need is a pick. Electric guitars need a more complex setup with leads, amps, speaker and power.

Acoustic guitars are good in that you can't increase the volume. While first learning you only want your sound to be loud enought to hear what you are playing, both errors and good performances.

If you don't know which types of guitar you want to play on, ask yourself, 'what kind of music do I want to play?'

Find a song with guitar playing that you really like. Listen to the guitar sounds and only the guitar sounds. Are they clean, soft sounds? Or do they sound distorted, harsh or heavy? Compared to the electric guitar, the acoustic will mostly have a softer, clearer tone. Electric guitars are boosted by amplifiers and other special effects that cause their sound to become heavy and distorted. Can you hear individual notes being picked or are the strings being strummed hard? 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. Try and find out what the band video for that song is and watch it. See if you can find the clearest part to view the band. Check out the guitarist. Which guitar is being used by the guitarist, electric guitar or acoustic 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.

Folks learn to play guitar and take guitar lessons for a variety of reasons. Once you know what you want from your guitar, then most of these decisions will beome simple To discover your tastes in guitar music, listening to different styles and genres. 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.

The answers don't have to be exact because they will get you thinking about what you need to buy to achieve the sound you are after.

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