Guitar n00b asking experienced e-guitarists for advise

go with a classic one first, learn the basic accords (look wiki books) and then you can turn to the e-guitar

classicals can be quite cheap (30€) if you just want it for basic training

oh and you may listen to jack johnson and ben harpor to get some inspirement what you can get out of guitars

Go for a classical guitar. They won't hurt your fingertips as much as a guitar with steel strings.

Well, if you want electrical, get electrical. Acoustic won't propably cut it for you, even if it is nice to play acoustic one later because of the nice soft feeling.

I don't know what kind of music do you like, but I could personally recommend ESP-LTD series, especially if you like metal music. There is a Les Paul model, and the 100-> series are ok quality.

I can't really help you with the amp, personally I have a Roland Microcube, which cost me about 90 euros and is a total charm.

Fine. Let your fingers bleed. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Plectrum thickness is all to do with preference. The thin ones are only good for shredding as for rhythm play, they're too flimsy.

http://www.musamaailma.fi/WebRoot/musa/ ... _STBLK.jpg

This is what I'm currently shredding with. I usually use medium picks (I don't really like to use picks) but I've heard that beginners should use heavy picks to get a better response of how you are picking.

The microcube totally gets me. It's got only 2watts, but it gets you enough noise. On a really big pluss, it works for a couple of hours with nothing but batteries (if you wanna go on a little beach jam for example) and it has enough effects for me, phasers, flangers, distortions, acoustic simulation, tuning fork etc. And you can use headphones with it if you are living in a block apartment.

Hell, get a Les Paul if you can. They are stylish and sound better than standard electric guitars.

I have a Strato but I just can't get arsed to play it, specialy because I ain't got an amp. SonicDM told me there's a cord to plug it into the pc and some softwares to emulate distortion and stuff... I should go look for it.

If you want to go for an electric guitar frie, go for an electric guitar. I think there's no problem beginning on it especially because that will directly introduce you to all the effects for electrics and plectrum playing which is harder than playing with your fingers, but yeah that can be frustrating.

To start i would recommend a stratocaster, mostly because a stratocaster can be really polyvalent, you can play a lot of kind of music styles with it, so that will let you some time to try some different things.

edit : and yeah especially if you want to play punk rock

So maybe you can find a cheap stratocaster, i got mine : 180 euros

An ampli 110 watts should be enough, you don't want to do concerts already , look if it has some basic effects like overdrive, equalizer, maybe distorsion why not : 80 euros

Plectrums : 5 euros

And maybe an electronic accorder to start : 25 euros

Been looking for Stratocaster prizes some time ago and I didn't find anything that got near 180€. Are there any differences between versions of it, that could change the prize so much? (guitar noob here)

Woops i'm late

For starters I would recommend a "VOX Pathfinder" amplifier. 10 watt should be enough to get you going. As for what guitar you should buy. A Les Paul is a high quality guitar and very expensive. For starting a Fender Strat should do. You can still 'upgrade' later

One guitar you might want to look at a later point is the Gibson SG. I think it would really fit your style of music. It's expensive but awesome.

It looks like this... I think this is actually the guitar they used as reference for guitar hero in terms of shape

[Blocked Image: http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_image/product/db9153d82723b35d8bc12ecf2f90fc52.jpg]

just a few tid-bits ...

Do you have any friends (in RL) that play? If so, talk to them about it, and have a little fun their guitars and see what you think.

If you decide to go for it ... don't go out any buy a real Les Paul or w/e straight away, get a "good" fake.

Also Min0 ...

Quote

I have a Strato but I just can't get arsed to play it, specialy because I ain't got an amp. SonicDM told me there's a cord to plug it into the pc and some softwares to emulate distortion and stuff... I should go look for it.

you're looking for virtuAMP ...

http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=51

... but you'll need a 6.25mm to 3.5mm adapter.

I can't give any advice grounded in experience, but I've heard a number of people I know say that Yamaha Pacifica guitars are very good value for beginners.

Seriously go to the store with your friend, that's what i did. It's an harsh world for beginners, some guitar sellers are fucking hungry raptors

rule N°1: if you want to play e-guitar, buy an e-guitar... and a guitar that you like (shape, colour, sound, etc...) because if you don't buy something that you like, you'll soon get bored and won't buy it...

When you buy your guitar, pay attention to the woods used to build it. It's VERY important as the wood is what will "taint" your sound. Search on google to see what are the various sounds of the various woods.

I would also recommend you buy an e-guitar with a whammy bar, you'll have much more fun with it, but it will be longer/harder to tune, but if you have (and you must have) and tool to tune it (sorry, i don't rknow the english name of this tool). It's cheap (aprrox. 15€) and will saves a lot of your time.

rule N°2: when you'll buy it, ask to test. Of course, as you don't know how to play guitar, you won't play on it, but just slide your fingers on the neck to see if there's nothing which could hurt your hand / fingers, like for example, some frets (the little metal bar on the neck) that would be a bit too long (that's what happened to me)

In my opinion, you should forget the Les Paul shape: not well balanced, very heavy, crap shape to play while sitting (everybody will tell you these shapes hurts when you try to play while sitting) and anyway, i don't look "punk rock"

For your amp, i have a 30W spider-II from line6 and it's absolutely perfect to practice at home. you won't do any concert, so 30W is way enough. These amps have all the effects you need to play punk rock and they aren't very expensive, and line 6 is anyway a (very) good brand

For the pick, it's a matter of taste.... i personally use a medium one and another one made of wood

If you need any other information, don't hesitate to ask

Add me on msn, i can help you out a bit , igive guitar lessons to begining guitarists in my neighbourhood, i'm no pro but i can help you get started on learning the basics (chords, basic scales modes,finger positioning, relaxation excersizes, speed training, memorizing tecniques, basic blues, metal, jazz, classical/neo-classical music maybe some more advanced stuff if you're already familiar with those things) and starting to create your own sound / music.

born2shred 'at' gmail.com (shit now this addy sounds even more cheesy lmao)