re: Guitarists of the OT

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Any suggestions for purchasing a beginner guitar and beginner lessons?

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First decide if you want an acoustic guitar or electric guitar. Electric is easier to play because the strings are thinner.

But you would need an amp as well. My son has the Fender mustang micro ($100) that you plug in to your electric guitar and headphones and it is awesome!

Budget Electrics brands (in alphabetical order only)
Epiphone (gibson)
Fender Squire
Gretsch
PRS - SE

Acoustics - this is where you would need to spend more money to have something playable. Cheap acoustics are pure shite to play on. The best playing cheap acoustic I have ever played was the Fender Tomcat. I think its about $350.

Guitars are like any other item. Buy a nicer one and you can sell it easier if you don't like it. Not many people are going to want to buy a used cheap guitar, which is why they are all at the pawn shops.

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The music board would be cool if not for the people that hang out on it.

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Why care about anyone else..

talk about the shite you want to talk about, and talk shite on what you don't want to talk about.

That's what a message board is mostly for.

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This should have stayed on the OT since it's directed at the OT. That's how some fun threads accidentally get started.

Three things are going to be your hurdles-

#1- The pain of playing guitar without callouses and muscle memory, can you build up the callouses, can you build up the muscle memory in fingers, hands, wrists before getting tendonitis and hand cramps and bloody fingers, and giving up?

#2- Natural musical inclination, are you already musically inclined? Piano, saxophone, drums? You may find out after a while you don't have "it". Being an audiophile and listening to music all day every day and going to 1000 concerts doesn't count.

#3- Time and motivation- most people learn as teens or younger when you don't have shite else to do, and as young males, believe that playing guitar will impress girls (it does) and that's motivation to power through and put in the time to get good. As an adult, you don't have the same kind of spare time. Sure the advent of things like youtube can accelerate your learning curve from back in the day, but only so far. It's still going to take years to get good at it, assuming you make it past #1 and #2 above. Will you have the motivation to keep at it?


Of those 3 things, none have anything to do with the quality of guitar you start out with.


Another point- decide if you want to play acoustic type music or electric type music. You can do both, simultaneously, but you obviously need two different guitars.


I also recommend starting out with .9 string size. Once you hit the big time and decide to get serious about your tone, you can start dabbling in string diameter and a million other things that can shape your sound.

I even further recommend in-person lessons because a youtube video teacher isn't going to stop you and correct your hand position or some other bad habit. At least for the first 6 months if not a year, you should pay for in-person lessons.

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I used to recommend starting with an acoustic. They are just more versatile, or at least were, until headphone amps came along. Acoustic's can encourage a bad habit that can be difficult to overcome: a tight grip

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Starting on an electric can encourage bad habits. The main one not being able to actually play guitar.


Acoustic guitars and electric guitars are slightly different animals. But I have never met anyone that could play an acoustic guitar well that could not make an electric guitar sound good, even if that wasn’t their forte. Vice versa…. Not so much.

People that can bang out sex pistols, green day, and nirvana power chords on an electric with two finger power chords…

The opposite does not apply.

Start on an acoustic.

Downvote away.

Good luck OP.

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Any advice is appreciated.

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I'm with you, learning to play late in life as a bucket list mission. I'd start on electric since it's easier to play. Get a cheap amp and don't worry about how clean or full it sounds. You can upgrade once you get better.

As for guitar recommendations... I'm a Fender guy so I'd recommend buying a Squier Classic Vibe. I've bought two (strat and Jazzmaster) and both were playable right our of the box. This website sells new overstock as "used" at $150-200 less than new.

As others have mentioned, start with chords and use YouTube tutorials. Commit to playing for a few minutes every day and eventually it will become second nature and you'll see progress over time. Hope it works for you brother!

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Here is the LINK

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A damn Limey won?
Check your link

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So your recommendation for a wanna be beginning guitarist is now to go buy two guitars? An acoustic and an electric?

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eventually yeah, acoustic first though. Like what i said with the applause.

Unlike a new or very nice Taylor 110, like you recommended, which go for what $700-$900?..the applause wouldn't bother OP's bank. OP could actually get a new fender squier and applause acoustic for probably less than $800.

So eat shite.

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If he/she is just wanting to figure it out; they probably aren’t too fricking serious yet. And buying two guitars isn’t probably going to happen.

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Maybe they want to pursue..ever had any ambition in life besides your college football team? You get both sides of the coin with acousic and electric.

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Your initial response was to post a picture of a bunch of electric guitars, amps, and pedals. Which was you just peacocking. But no real advice.

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that's what you're supposed to do on The OT. Youd know that if you understood the history of TD..frickin 2021.

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Now your advice is to buy an acoustic and an electric.

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if possible. Thats what id want.. especially with the budget you set.

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And along the way you called me a pussy.

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and now im calling your mother a whore.

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And I bet you don’t play guitar nearly as well or know nearly as much as you think you do.

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I think I play horribly. You should see the company I keep, you'd feel the same way about yourself.


Who needs talent when you got looks though.

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The reason I said to avoid this place is above.

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thread was started on The OT. Initial responses were OT. You started bitching for no real reason and here we are.

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Downvote away while you discuss some fricking song, album, or whatever

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I'll give you mine..

Enjoy getting it while you try to take part in discussions about vaccines, pitbulls, guns and groomers..or whatever

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That link goes the results of the Budapest race.

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Hillarious. I think that was the splits from the Track World Championship 1500 meter race. Those are very interesting as well. See my analysis on the sports board. And surprisingly, it wasnt a porn link .

Here is the fixed LINK.....it may be porn....