Electric guitar vs. Acoustic

How many times have we battled with the question of whether to buy an electric or acoustic guitar? This issue is so common, that a lot of people even mistake the differences and similarities from one kind of guitar to the other.

So, which one to buy? And more importantly, which one to play?

The answer is simply to subject of to try and make a final conclusion of it. For the first question, one should buy that kind of guitar that one wishes to play according to the kind of music we would like to be playing. Now, an important note here is that both acoustic and electric guitars have more in common than we think.

As a matter of fact by which ever one you like. The reason being, that both electric and acoustic share the same strings and notes. So the decision should be made more on a stylistic approach.

Therefore, that answers the second question. Which one should we play? The fact of the matter is that it all revolves around what type of music we are inclined to playing.  There are great songs that were meant to be played electrically and ended up on and unplugged somewhere and they also made for great unplugged music, or simply acoustic music!  The same argument could be made for the opposite issue. There are great pieces of music that were composed and even played acoustically that made it to some of them somewhere where the player was playing the same piece on his or her electric guitar!

Therefore, you do have a free choice to make. Whether or not to play an acoustic guitar versus an electric guitar simply involves some decision-making. I myself, based that decision on budget.  When I first started playing, I only had enough money to buy myself an acoustic Spanish style guitar.  And, all of the great classic rock from the 60s and 70s sounded great on my first guitar. Therefore, again, it will really be up to you to decide. One thing is for sure: you could really accomplish a whole lot on either an acoustic or an electric guitar!!!