I hate my electric guitar (Page 1 of 2)

<font color="sienna"></font><b></b>I can't understand why you feel that way...each type of guitar has range of sounds and having both acoustic and electric increases your versatily. I know a few hardcore Classical players that will occasionally pick up an electric just to explores some different sounds and techniques!

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Infact I hate electric guitars in general, and wished i'd never bought it, but at the same time i'm glad i bought it so now I know that I hate it  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">

You know what I mean I hope, I wanted one from the minute i could play a G chord, so i bought one for £100 and liked it for 10 minutes!

I'm selling it now so I can put it towards a decent acoustic.

Is this normal behavior for someone or am i an abnormal guitarist?
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No your just abnormal. If you truly loved to play it would not matter to you if it was acoustic or electric. Your desire would be just to play.

The quality of the amp makes a huge difference.   A small tube amp will cost you about $100, and the sound they make is amazing.

Crappy amp = crappy tone.

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My desire <i>is</i> to play, but I hate the sound of electric because I only have a small practice amp and no real need for an electric guitar at all, I only bought it because I wanted it and the novelty had kind of worn off now.

I'll stick to my acoustic till I can play a bit better then who knows, I might enjoy playing electric.
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Now I understand your frustration because you clarified it. As jaygordon75 stated, crappie amp crappy sound. Go play a few different ones in a music store and see if you change your mind.

Bootlegger.

I started electric 1st and it was easy. I much prefer the range of effects and everything you can get from an electric guitar. Like Tom Morello! I have a Black Fender Strat and i love it....every night.

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hey alvee have to agree with you

its fun to jam on electric every

now and then. different techniques

for sure.i've started a small acoustic collection.my fav is my fender acoustic,love the way it plays and the sound.

  Anyone else have an acoustic collection? In mine is a Fender DG8 flat top acoustic,A Hohner 12 string,A Simpson Sears Campfire guitar,A Vantage six string,just picked up a beat up Martin that needs work.

have a good day...Badeye. 
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Nonsense. I have a sh**ty acoustic guitar and i can play it but i started with electric.  Loads of great guitarists i know started on bass and moved on to el guitar. This acoustic to electric stuff is silly. A guitar is a guitar.

I'm sure millions of people would disagree with you there.  There are many differences between an electric and acoustic guitar and even more differences between an acoustic and a hollow body archtop (such as an old gibson).  The strings on an electric are very loose and much closer to the fretboard, and the neck is flat, where as it is rounded on an acoustic.  Saying "a guitar is a guitar" is like saying a banjo is a fiddle, it just doesn't make any sense.  If an electric and an acoustic were the same thing, they wouldn't have made an electric.  Hope that gets the point accross.

I Do play both. But I stand by my decision to learn on an acoustic always.  Yes I know there are different neck shapes, such as flat, rounded and scalloped. electric guitars created for swing bands were hollow body electrics, made in a simillar fashion to the acoustic, where as a strat type guitar is made from a solid piece of hardwood.  The last electric guitar I made was a solid piece of maple, and it sounds quite different from an acoustic.

BigDJ seems to be on this topic of learning accoustic first frequently with the same basic ramblings.

I learned on electric and am converting to accoustic easily. As I mentioned in another post in response to DJ, this is all about finding your style and sound and the guitar that works for you. If that is accoustic, great, if  you have small hands like me an electric may be easier to pickup first and develop strength while learning.

Learning on an electric first is fine. A guitar IS a guitar in the sense that the basics such as strings, intonation and theory (Chords, scales etc.) are the same for any type of 6-string standard tuned guitar you pickup.

Your comment about saying "a Guitar is a Guitar is like saying a banjo is a fiddle" is more accurate if you say a fiddle is like a violin...same basic instrument totally different styles. That is a clear way to view electric vs. accoustic.

If an electric and an acoustic were the same thing, they wouldn't have made an electric. Hope that gets the point accross.

(quote from previous posting by bigdjindustriez)

I Do play both. But I stand by my decision to learn on an acoustic always. Yes I know there are different neck shapes, such as flat, rounded and scalloped. electric guitars created for swing bands were hollow body electrics, made in a simillar fashion to the acoustic, where as a strat type guitar is made from a solid piece of hardwood. The last electric guitar I made was a solid piece of maple, and it sounds quite different from an acoustic.

(also quoted by above)

What I replied to above (#1 quote) there was never any questioning your choice to learn acoustic first. The reply was to if there the same they would not have made electrics. (#2) Yes you will get a different sound from electric than the sound from an acoustic.

The sound coming from the ocillation of the string vibration produced by striking (strumming) of the string creates a sound which is amplified in a sound chamber and is heard as the sound is echoed in the sound chamber (acoustic guitar body).

Since an electric guitar is made for the most part out of a solid piece of wood(one piece or 2 & 3 pieces glued together) it does not have a sound hole (althoght semi hollow bodies are made) and have magnetic pickups to help the amplify the sound.

Once again the vibration of the string ocilating due to striking (strumming of the string) is picked up by an electromagnetic pickup. The pickup turns the vibration into sound waves and the sound siginature is amplified through an amplifier. That's when you hear the sound of the guitar. So in theory they are the same producing sound by the same principle.

The maple wood you made your electric guitar will produce alot of highs hence forth the tonal difference of the electric vs the acoustic. Where as if you would have had a maghogany back with a maple top you tonal characteristics would have been warmer.

Bootlegger.