please let me know the difference when we play an Electric Guitar that from playing an Acoustic guitar?
I'm just 20 and thinking to start playing the Electric guitar…
I've been playing the acoustic guitar since ages…
Is there any primary basic difference???
Ok…….lots of crap answers here that aren't helping you. Obviously an electric is going to be louder.
1) On the electric, it will be much easier to fret chords. It will require less effort to hold your chords down.
2) The fretboard of the electric will not be as wide; you'll have less room to work with. (everybody I know that goes from acoustic to electric complains about fret-hand cramping, at least initially)
3) You will get WAY more sustain on an electric, even when playing clean…..you'll have to learn to pinch your notes off and mute the strings when you want clean breaks.
4) I'm sure you already know how to hammer-on/pull-off……but on an electric, hammers and pull-offs can genuinely replace picked notes…..not so much on an acoustic. This opens up a completely different style of playing, hell, I'd say more fluid.
5) Yeah…that volume is a huge change. It may make you want to back off a bit…(Django Rheinhardt said it scared him, he hated playing through an amp)…….resist the temptation to play softer, you'll sacrifice your tone.
6) Finger noise! I love finger noise, but if you've never played an electric, you might hate the fact that you can hear yourself switching chords with the volume up. I feel like the electric requires advanced finger-positioning and extremely clean changes if you want to avoid this.
7) When distorted, you will not get clean, full sounding chords on an electric. They'll sound muddy, absolutely nothing you can do to remedy this. That's where the whole two/three note bar-chords come into play. You'll have to learn those, too.
That's a few…….I'm sure I've left some out, but that's a start.
February 27th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Weeeeeellll, one is plugged into this stuff called electricity & the other just isn't.
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February 27th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
the accoustic guitar is more difficult to play than an electric. It should be a breeze for you to switch
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February 27th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
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February 27th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
you need an amp to hear it..and the acoustic has a more hollow sound to it. playing wise itll be the same
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play both electric and acoustic
February 27th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Hi mate, the main difference with an electric is that it is amplified. Therefore everything is louder - even your mistakes. The most crucial technique to master when switching from acoustic to electric is muting. That stops unwanted notes on open strings from droning away by themselves. This can be done with a combination of left-hand muting and palm-muting with the right hand. Once you've got that sorted you'll have a great time experimenting with lots of different effects.
Good luck!
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February 27th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Ok…….lots of crap answers here that aren't helping you. Obviously an electric is going to be louder.
1) On the electric, it will be much easier to fret chords. It will require less effort to hold your chords down.
2) The fretboard of the electric will not be as wide; you'll have less room to work with. (everybody I know that goes from acoustic to electric complains about fret-hand cramping, at least initially)
3) You will get WAY more sustain on an electric, even when playing clean…..you'll have to learn to pinch your notes off and mute the strings when you want clean breaks.
4) I'm sure you already know how to hammer-on/pull-off……but on an electric, hammers and pull-offs can genuinely replace picked notes…..not so much on an acoustic. This opens up a completely different style of playing, hell, I'd say more fluid.
5) Yeah…that volume is a huge change. It may make you want to back off a bit…(Django Rheinhardt said it scared him, he hated playing through an amp)…….resist the temptation to play softer, you'll sacrifice your tone.
6) Finger noise! I love finger noise, but if you've never played an electric, you might hate the fact that you can hear yourself switching chords with the volume up. I feel like the electric requires advanced finger-positioning and extremely clean changes if you want to avoid this.
7) When distorted, you will not get clean, full sounding chords on an electric. They'll sound muddy, absolutely nothing you can do to remedy this. That's where the whole two/three note bar-chords come into play. You'll have to learn those, too.
That's a few…….I'm sure I've left some out, but that's a start.
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