Help with acoustic and electric guitar please?

Question

I am learning to play the acoustic guitar, but my mom found a really nice set for learning the electric guitar, but it explain the guitar so well. will I be at a complete loss if I try to learn the acoustic guitar from the electric book (of course I will ignore the electric parts of it) Thanks a bunch:)

Answer 1

The main trouble you'll run into is if there are any electric tricks that can't be done on acoustic, because it involves doing something that sounds great through an amp. You may not recognize what's not possible on an acoustic. But except for those small differences they should be basically the same.

Most music stores will have great books that are more applicable to acoustic guitar.

Answer 2

The techniques for beginners on acoustic and electric guitar are all basically the same, so you could use any book.
Electric guitars tend to be easier to play because you do not need the same finger strength to finger notes as you do on an acoustic which would have thicker strings. For more advanced techniques you would start to run out of fretboard on an acoustic guitar and you would also not have the ability to play with effects.
Although riffs are the most fun to play, to be the best guitar player, you should focus on learning chords, especially barre chord because they are movable on the neck. Also spend time learning the notes on the 5th and 6th string, this will come in very handy for barre chords. Guitar is all moveable patterns and the barre chords are the first step in leaning the moveable patterns that will allow you to play anything. There is a great book and DVD published by Hal Leonard called Fretboard Roadmaps that can help with the patterns once you are ready.
Good luck and stick with it. Guitar is one of the hardest instruments to start on, but once you have good technique and hand strength it is easy to get good with practice.
*I am a Board Certified Music Therapist and one thing I do is teach people with disabilities and severe mental illness to play guitar.

Answer 3

I have no idea that there are any "execs or cons" to any of those devices. I've been a guitar participant for forty years, and I possess one in all each and every type of guitar. Each guitar has an additional sound and reason, and they're used as a result. I commonly use one in all my electrics for acting or recording. The sign is robust and sizzling, and will provide me a large sort of sounds. I use my acoustic extra for matters like out of doors campfires and such. It has an overly wealthy, typical sound. I use the acoustic-electrical on level, to provide that wealthy, typical sound with a more robust sign.

Answer 4

not really, a lot of the techniques are similar. all you might need to ignore would be pedal stuff and maybe some genre issues. otherwise, tuning is the same and the basic chords are the same. you'll just get a lot of solo-type stuff as well as dumbed down power chords.

stay on the lookout for an acoustic focused book, though. good luck.

Answer 5

They are basically the same thing. With chords and tabs, its the excat same but the electric guitar focuses more on high and fast notes