How Much Should I Spend On My First Guitar?
If you are here, probably you considering buying a guitar. Or switching from one type of guitar to another, like from classical to electric.
When I started playing the guitar, I started with a classical and quickly switched to an electric. Because of the play styles, it offers. I still wasn’t sure that I want to continue playing the guitar and didn’t want to spend too much money on it. To my luck a friend of mine that already played on electric guitar help me in the matter.
So, How Much Should I Spend on a First Guitar? If you are considering an electric guitar then you should spend at least $400 and shouldn’t spend over $700. If you are considering buying an acoustic or a classical then you should spend at least $150 and shouldn’t spend over $399.
But you shouldn’t worry, I’m here to help you to make decisions on your first guitar, or for some of you the second.
There are many more factors that you should consider before buying your first guitar. Like when you should buy it? Why you shouldn’t buy too cheap, the type of guitar you should buy, where, etc’.
I will elaborate on all your concerns on your first guitar as a beginner on this down below. And if you have anything else, feel free to ask, I will be happy to answer.
When You Should Buy Your First Guitar
I recommend buying your first guitar only after you have some kind of experience with it. I would suggest going to one or two guitar lessons. you should go to the type you think you want to learn and you don’t need to have a guitar for that.
The major types of guitars are electric, acoustic or classical. If you got a friend that is playing the guitar and got the type you which to learn I would suggest going to him as well. Yet, an instructor will definitely make sure that by the end of an hour you will play something. Before scheduling a lesson with an instructor in your near area, make sure to tell him that you don’t own a guitar. Tell him you wish to experience the instrument and the music. This is because he will need to own an extra guitar beside his own. In order to prevent the hassle of passing the same guitar between the two of you.
Which Type Of Guitar Should I Start With
If you heard somewhere the phrase “you should learn to play on a classical\acoustic guitar before you start on electric” or something in that matter. Please don’t pay attention to this. You should follow your instincts. Whatever you want to play rock, classical or country music you should play whatever you want. Thus you should start with a guitar the suits the genre you consider playing.
Of course, there are techniques shared between the types of guitar. But forcing yourself or you are forced by someone else to play a genre or type of guitar that you don’t want to so later on “when you will be good enough” you can start playing the one you want.
If you get an electric guitar you will be able to play rock, metal, blues, country, pop, etc’. Whatever it is clean or distorted, lead or rhythm part of the song.
If you get an acoustic guitar you will be able to play almost the same genres as the electric. with some differences like not having a distorted effect and doing quite a few techniques will be hard and almost impossible. You can say that the acoustic guitar is mostly used as a rhythm guitar for those genres and folk genres. But it doesn’t mean that with this guitar there a no lead parts. There are a lot of compositions with fingerstyle that can be played in this guitar. They sound as if two or three guitars are playing. For last but not least the classical guitar.
The classical guitar is very like the acoustic with the main difference that it has a nylon string. This gives the guitar a softer sound. Although you can play with this guitar genre like rock, country, and pop. I found that it is most used by Jazz and Folk and Classical music players,
Why You Should NOT Buy Guitars That Are Too Cheap
Low build quality. With this low range price, you can definitely expect your guitar to be composed of low-quality components like wood, pickups, frets, knobs, etc’. Not to mention the low-quality assembly. These things can affect the life of these guitars. Because of this, as a beginner, you will probably struggle with difficult techniques. For example, you may experience difficulty playing barre chords, bends or even single notes. It may not sound properly and you may think this is because of you. You don’t want to get frustrated at the beginning as a result of the faulty guitar.