what are the differences between acoustic guitar and electric guitar ?
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at
2:45 pm
1 . what are the differences between acoustic guitar and electric guitar ?
2 . when you play one of them , can you also play the other one or you have to take different classes ?
3 . if yes , Is it atleast simpler to learn acoustic when you know electric ?
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Electric guitars hav pickups which turns the strumming of the strings into sound, to play an electric guitar you need an amp.
Acoustic guitars are your normal guitar with a hole in it, no electricity needed.
Once you know how to play one you can easily play the other.
Yes its simpler.
Their both guitars the principle of 6 strings is still the same.
The difference is that, acoustic is more of a strumming soft sounding guitar, when electric guitar is when you can rock out to the loud sound of an electric guitar.
electrics are simpler to learn. They have uh…”softer” strings on average, so they don’t hurt your fingers. They also can be a lot quieter than acoustics, as most practice amps and amp modelers have headphone-outs. There’s even cheap foot-pedals from companies like Behringer that make your electric sound like an acoustic.
There are two types of acoustic… steel stringed and classical or Spanish style nylon stringed… but there are also steel stringed electric/acoustic guitars. Acoustics rely on the body cavity to amplify the sound and resonate through the tone wood.
Electric guitars are either semi-hollow or solid bodied and rely on the magnetic pickups to translate the string vibration into an electric signal for an amplifier to “amplify” and send through a speaker or 2 or 4 or… The guitar/amp instrument of course gives you a lot of playability options with tone and distortion, reverb, etc…
Being able to play either type of guitar usually translates to playing any other, but… a lot people have terrible habits that are masked by the nature of the electric guitar, and won’t be when they play acoustic. So to go from acoustic to electric I would argue is simpler.