People usually start with a cheap acoustic. Usually Yamaha. I think it’s a bad idea because they amount of pressure you have to use to fret it makes your fingers sore and it’s hard to practice consistently.

I recommend starting with a low priced electric (fender squire series or Ibanez) with an older fender mustang amp or a 90s silvertone amp (super cheap on reverb, but very decent. The strings and play are much lighter and easier and the hands so you can focus on learning.

If you prefer an acoustic guitar I’d get a classical guitar. The nylon strings are very light.

Good luck and have fun!

And I’d buy used. You can get nice discounts.

This post was edited on 8/27/23 at 4:32 am

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Posted on 8/27/23 at 9:30 am to Upperaltiger06

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People usually start with a cheap acoustic. Usually Yamaha. I think it’s a bad idea because they amount of pressure you have to use to fret it makes your fingers sore and it’s hard to practice consistently.

I'm in a fantasy football league and we had our in person draft yesterday. There's a guy in the league that I don't know that well who is a professional guitar player, he plays in a pretty well known NOLA cover band. I asked him about the Fender FA 125 that I bought. He said that there are many, many better guitars, but also many worse guitars. But at the price I bought it for, it's a pretty good deal that affords me the opportunity to get started and upgrading in the future. I asked him about the playability of the guitar and he told me to call him and go his house and he would tweak the guitar to improve the playability, he mentioned most probably changing the strings.

An interesting thing he said was: an accomplished player could make a terrible guitar sound decent, and an unaccomplished player could made a $5k guitar sound terrible.

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