I chose an electric because it's the sounds that I hear in my head all the time.
I learned a lot faster on an electric than I ever did in my 12 years of playing around with an acoustic.
See...I had an acoustic since I was a child but I could never get it to make the sounds that connected with my heart.
Because of that, I never took playing the guitar seriously or really practiced. I learned one song on one string in the whole 12 years that I had that acoustic guitar.
Then when I got my first electric guitar....wow, the floodgates opened up. I started trying to play everything I could hear. TV commercials, songs on the radio, songs that played on my kids toys. EVERYTHING!
Heck, I played the theme song to "The Backyardigans" for a good 2 weeks before I moved on to the next thing to play. =p
Now that I have had experience with electric guitar I am very interested in going back and getting an acoustic so that I can expand my abilities. I also want an acoustic because I don't have to set it up and take out all the equipment to play it loud. I would be able to hear the acoustic outside without an amp. If I play my electric guitar without an amp it sounds very quiet and "tinny". The Acoustic guitar would let me hear everything loud and require no setup time.
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but mediocrity knows nothing more than itself."
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