I want to play electric guitar but have no experience. i was told that bass woul

Question:i havent played a guitar before at all but have always been interested and im hopin someone will be able to advise me on which would be easier for me to learn. i was also told that because im 17 ill find it harder to be good because the younger you are the easier it is to learn? i would be really greatfull for any help thanks

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: i havent played a guitar before at all but have always been interested and im hopin someone will be able to advise me on which would be easier for me to learn. i was also told that because im 17 ill find it harder to be good because the younger you are the easier it is to learn? i would be really greatfull for any help thanks

You heard wrong! The only reason some people think bass is easier is because there are four strings, not six. As for your age, of my current students, not one of them is younger than 25 years old, and one is just beginning at 52!!! Age has nothing to do with it. In fact, I find children more difficult to teach than adults just becasusse the vocabulary of music is all new to them.

Learn whichever instrument YOU want to play. In fact, learn six or eight of them!!!

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I started about 17 and ain't too shabby so did my daughter. Learn 6 string. Bass looks easier but not if you want to play it well. It's a different technique to a regular guitar.

At 17 yu are young. I am 54, I started playing when I was 52.

I play a steel string acoustic which is harder than electric. Bass can be easier than electric because there are less strings and they are further apart and the riffs you would play are generally easier.

The best advise is to learn acoustic first, the hardest to learn but the best. Later on progress to electric. You are young enough to learn it all.

Acoustic is harder because you have to press harder on the strings and it really hurts for the first couple of months

Now for some facts. For every ten people who take up guitar, nine give up. Out of the ones who don't give up, nine out of ten learn one style of playing or one strumming pattern and stick with that without learning more of the many different patterns and styles of playing. Learning to play guitar really well is not easy, it takes years of hard work and dedication. Guitar sorts the men out from the boys.

If you think you have the guts and the determination, learn acoustic first then electric. If you want an easy ride learn bass.

Other advantages of acoustic are you don't have to plug into an amp so you can pick it up and practice anytime.

Because it is physically harder to play acoustic it will make playing electric later on much easier.

The most important thing is to practice practice practice.

The thing that makes people say bass is "easier" is that the most rudimentary bass lines are simply playing the root note of the chords for any given song. In reality there is almost always more to it than that (with the possible exception of some really boring Tom Petty songs among others). So while a guitar player is playing chords, you're playing a single note. Typically though there is "fill" stuff to play or maybe you play a "walking" bass line behind the changes. Bass can be pretty difficult because the strings are much heavier gauge, spaced pretty far apart, and the neck is usually wider and thicker, especially when you get in to 5 and 6 string basses. You'll find the better bass players have pretty long fingers.