Seriously...?

Question:I have played guitar for what...like, 6-7ish or 8-ish months, and I realize that befroe you play electric guitar you have learn aucostic (or however you spell it, i don't care) first, and my friend is being an idiot and learning electric first...and she thinks thats since she rocks on GH3...she'll be good at guitar. soo..whats up with that?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have played guitar for what...like, 6-7ish or 8-ish months, and I realize that befroe you play electric guitar you have learn aucostic (or however you spell it, i don't care) first, and my friend is being an idiot and learning electric first...and she thinks thats since she rocks on GH3...she'll be good at guitar. soo..whats up with that?

The purpose of Guitar Hero is to make people who *can't* play guitar pretend that they could really rock if they *did* pick up a guitar. I tried it a couple of times - i'm not horrible, I could play a couple of the songs on medium - but it's just not the same. Why would I want to use some stupid plastic controller that sounds like crap when I can plug into my Mesa Boogie, turn up to 5, and literally shake the house with loud, frothy chugging goodness?

And I hate to say it, but you don't have to learn acoustic first to learn how to play guitar. I recommend it, and most everyone I know recommends it... it builds hands strength, it's portable, you get a better feel for 'wood tone', etc. Quite frankly, I recommend it because playing an acoustic is harder. If you beat your way through an acoustic, then playing an electric is so frigging easy it's ridiculous.

However, playing an electric requires a lighter touch. This makes it easier for noobs, and takes a little bit of work for someone coming from an acoustic to get used to. (I basically can't play with 9's... I have to use 11's or i'll play too hard, overbend, etc.)

So, some people don't like to wait. They play electric first, don't get their hands used to an acoustic, and end up having to get super light strings on their acoustic when they play it because they never built up their hand strength.

But whatever, right? Takes all types. As long as you do what you do, let her do what she wants to do. She'll realize her delusion sooner or later. =)

Saul

Not true, you can learn either first. I just doesn't matter.

Also, electric can be easier to learn first because you can learn "power chords" which are pretty simple whereas on acoustic you usually play full chords.

Stick with it and you'll be great. Don't worry about what or how anyone else plays. Play how you want to play.

GH3 won't teach anyone how to play, but there's a new version coming out that will use a real guitar.

Good luck!

None of your business. You can learn to play ANY instrument you want; there is no required set order.

Wow. Guitar Hero is like nothing like Real guitar...It doesnt really matter which you learn first, its just considered better if you learn accoustic first.

GH3 as in the game Guitar Hero 3? That may be good for keeping a beat. As for playing real guitars, learning aucostic will help a lot but it's not impossible to be good at the electric guitar if you skip the aucostic.

Guitar Hero?!?!?! LOL, LOL, LOL,, yeah, ok. she is seriously deluded!!!!

Who cares, let her do what she wants. It's not your life. Its not like she is trying to make a career out of it. However she wants to learn, let her. May not always be the best way, but if you never make mistakes, you never learn.

Sorry, but by GH3 I am assuming you mean Guitar Hero, the video game. Well, I admit that I've never played it, but it is my understanding that it is not the same as playing a real guitar and it does nothing with helping a person learn to read music. Let your friend go her own course, and you do what you need to do for you. Your hard work will pay off in the end.

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You don't need acoustic to begin. many of my students learnt on electric. Matter of taste especially for lead guitarist.

I don't know. I always thought you had to learn acoustic first (to get the chords down), then when you can play on acoustic well enough, then you can play electric.

And don't most (if not all) the great guitar players learn acoustic first? I'd think so, but I'm probably wrong about that.

I learned electric first....
But I was playing GH way before that, and I rock at guitar and guitar hero.