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Sorry for another thread, if possible the search function seems to work even less for me now.

Anyway, got an electric guitar for Christmas.  Bunch of stuff going around, so finally got around to starting to learn this thing.  I have been using justinguitar and working on the first couple chords, etc..  Anyway, my dumb question is:  What is the difference between acoustic and electric when playing?  Everything that he does is on the acoustic, so is it the same thing, or should I be using another website or a program like Rocksmith that focuses on electric??

 
For learning chords and songs, there is no difference. Whatever the guy is playing on his acoustic in the video lessons, you can play on your electric the exact same way. 

 
bigbottom said:
For learning chords and songs, there is no difference. Whatever the guy is playing on his acoustic in the video lessons, you can play on your electric the exact same way. 
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Yes, but acoustic you're going to play full chords more often whereas with an electric, you'll be playing more bar chords and riffs. That is, if you're playing stuff that rocks. 

 
dude get a keytar and rock out with your you know what out take that to the bank brohan

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
Yes, but acoustic you're going to play full chords more often whereas with an electric, you'll be playing more bar chords and riffs. That is, if you're playing stuff that rocks. 
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I am sure I will understand what you just said at some point.

As far as songs, I only intend to play songs that tim is drafting in our desert island draft.  I will leave that up to you to determine if they rock or not....

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
Yes, but acoustic you're going to play full chords more often whereas with an electric, you'll be playing more bar chords and riffs. That is, if you're playing stuff that rocks. 
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I think he's asking whether he can play his electric the same way as the guy doing the lesson in the video on an acoustic. The answer is yes. There's no difference between the two instruments in terms of learning chords and strum patterns off a video (same tuning, fingering, etc.).

 
I like justinguitar. The guy is a good teacher once you can get past the Cockney accent.

I'm looking to learn the sitar, but don't see justinsitar.com anywhere.

 
It doesn't matter.  It might if he were using an electric to teach various things (mostly involving amplified sounds or effects), and you were following along on an acoustic, but since he's using an acoustic you can duplicate effectively everything he's doing on your electric.  

Have fun!   :)

 
Aerial Assault said:
It doesn't matter.  It might if he were using an electric to teach various things (mostly involving amplified sounds or effects), and you were following along on an acoustic, but since he's using an acoustic you can duplicate effectively everything he's doing on your electric.  

Have fun!   :)
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Yeah, I am starting to have some fun with it.  Got over that first day reaction of: 1. #### this hurts, and 2. WTF do people actually make music out of this thing? 

 
explain chord inversions to me like I don't understand the point of them. Example: I come across a tab that inverts your basic G and D chords.

320003

vs.

300023

The latter is the inversion but it doesn't sound anything like a G.

000232

vs.

232000

Ditto.

What's the point? Actually inverting the fingering *snicker* just doesn't work (nor would I expect it to in most cases).

 
Good luck KP.  I picked up guitar late in life myself, well after I had psuedo-mastered the piano and found it to be 1000x easier than playing the guitar.  The piano is linear, one direction - left and right, the guitar is left, right, up, down and everything in between.  Chord playing is the easy part, so here's to hoping you stick with it long enough to become as good as BB at it ;)

No suggestions, I just picked songs my band needed me to play (because there were no piano parts) and looked them up on youtube and memorized them. I almost thing that's the best way to learn to play these days.  GB the internet

 
No difference while you are learning.  It's actually easier to learn the way you are doing it with an accoustic backdrop so that you understand the full chord structure.  Once you start actually playing electric guitar parts of songs there are more lead notes to play than you would on the accoustic, but knowing the reason why will help you pick up songs by ear quicker.

 
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