What are you going to do when your child asks you for their first guitar? What is going through your head? What are you visualising? Are you riddled with panic or are you seeing your little one up on stage at Carnegie Hall or Wembley Stadium? Whatever you are thinking one thing is for sure they are going to be persistent and you are going to have to go through a pretty fast learning curve.
Clearly there are some serious considerations, but the main two are budget and their ability to retain the current level of enthusiasm!
One of the big questions is acoustic guitar or electric guitar?
As you scour the millions of online reviews you will see many conflicting views about the best type of guitar to learn on, which is basically what you are buying.
Acoustic guitars have no pick-ups so therefore no amplification. An advantage is that the guitar is all that you need, apart from the training obviously!! The disadvantages are that they require more finger strength and stronger finger-tip calluses, things beginners' lack. Too many people get discouraged because of the resulting finger pain.
Electric guitars are easier to play than acoustics, especially for a beginner. Once you get the basics down you can graduate onto playing an acoustic to sharpen technique - most players will end up playing both anyway. A disadvantage with an electric guitar is that any mistake will be amplified, but the old saying that 'if you can't play, then play it loud' springs to mind!
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