Topic: I hate my electric guitar

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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Dude.... <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile"> just dude im sorry you feel that way

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<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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It's normal for those that want to play an instrument, rather than be a rock star.


However, there is no rule that says you can't own both kinds.  Or several of each.

Someday we'll win this thing...

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<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>scrimmy82 wrote on Tue, 13 March 2007 13&#58;15</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
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.

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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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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.

Someday we'll win this thing...

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I have to agree on the amp thing. Get a half decent one and hear the difference. I have to admit to prefering acoustic but my nephew has an electric and every time I'm round there I have a go. Great fun. Yes it's slightly different in technique but the range of sounds is great fun.

Still nice to get back to my old Fender acoustic though.

Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??

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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.

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dude you learned a lesson that is so hard to get through to most new players,everybody wants an electric, but until you are comfortable with acoustic it is a very difficult transition because the two are very different in a very big way.give the acoustic time and the electric will come.

and most definateley

CRAPPY AMP = CRAPPY TONE!

wanna rock forget the g chord and hammer the e.

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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.

one caper after another

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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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one caper after another

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I fully agree satman...everybody thinks they want an electric guitar for whatever reason...maybe because they "look cool" or some stupid thing like that.  But yes, you should always start on an acoustic.  Most people figure this out the hard way, when they don't listen to people. My advice to everyone is to start on an old beat up piece of crap acoustic.  if you can make that sound half decent, you know you can play! Don't go for the high end guitars or electric right away, theres no challenge there. peace

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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.

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I am learning on an electric, recently I went to a buddy's house, who has a classical acoustic, granted the strings are lighter and the space between strings is wider, so I suppose it is a great learning guitar because it is very forgiving, but I started on an Ibanez and really don't want to invest into an acoustic now, so I'll just heave to bear it until I loose all feeling in my fingertips  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing"> which I am very close to already.

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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.

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DUDE! There are a varity of electric guitar neck shapes and radius's, where have you been (go to www.edenhaus and check the neck conture's)? The reason electric's were created were to hear them over all the brass instruments (swing type music) because the pickups for acoustics were arcaic and of lousy construction. Too much feed back and lousy sound.


To address your major differences in both type's of guitars would merely be construction and materials. Which would affect the tonal qualities of both instruments. Of course shape and sound is also affected as electric guitar pickups require amplifacation to for sound other than string sound to be heard. Where as an acoustic or box guitar sound comes from the hollow cavaity of the guitar's body. Play both.


Bootlegger.

Bootlegger guitars.

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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.

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Its nice to have both,,,,,,there are times when I cant be bothered to plug in my electric so, I would suggest to keep both....

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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.

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I think you want too much, there are more bad players than good players. In a lot of countries, learning how to read notes, and learning to play an instrument exists. There is even a departement at the university of Oxford, for pop music. I can only tell you that the best way to learn is to persist in practising, even on your "bad guitar". I started acoustic, later electric and now I am a plaer-collector. No money? you can always put some money aside to purchase guitars. For electrics you can look on eBay.com, or, and they sound great, buy a PRS SE, very good, very affordable and you have a guitar from the luthier who makes probably the best guitars in the world

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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.

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your not weird atall i no exactly wot you mean. an electric and acoustic are totaly diffrent in the way they play and feel , the strings bend evry were on an electric lol , acoustics are so much better , i sorta did the same things but i lernt how to play an Em chord to start with

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Don't hate your electric.  Chances are you need to review your gear.  I agree with those who recommended getting a small tube amp.  However, you might also want to invest in an optical compressor pedal.  Those go a long way towards cleaning up your sound, perhaps to the degree of even hiding string buzz.  They also boost your sustain without messing with your tone.  I can claim that, because my electric has a little string buzz, and I don't really hear that through my amp.  At this point, my Gretsch ProJet has a very nice clean sound, though it can munch the crunch a touch when I dime the compressor drive dial and boost the volume past noon.   All good! <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">


BTW, what kind of guitar and amp do you have?