I know that there are Guitar players under us.
So i d like to know your Opinion.

I did "learn" to play the Guitar more than 30 Years ago. Not very much, all i did know was to grab some chords and basic Fingerpicking.
I did play 6 and 12 string acoustiuc guitars.
I didnt play for more than, maybe 20 Years.

Now i want to beginn again. And i guess i have to start with basics again because this time i want to learn it on a porpper way.

Anyway, i am anoying my neibours already with several hours of tooting around on my Whistles, and i dont want to add the sound of learning guitar as well.

So, even if never was interested into play electric Guitars before (maybe now i am) i thought it would be a possibility to practise on an electric Guitar with headphones. I would get a cheap beginner e guitar for practise.

I heard that electric Guitars are easy to grab.
But i did play only 6 strings Concert guitars and 12 string western guitar (but no 6 string western guitars) because i "needed" (wanted) a wide fingerboard. I have large big hands.
So maybe it would be a good practise to get used to the smaller fingerboard or an electric guitar but maybe it would make things more difficult.
Also, as someone who never did play an electric guitar i am not sure if its good to practise on an e guitar if i mostly want to play acoustic guitars. This may change, because maybe i like to e guitar.

Right now i only own a 12 string guitar and no 6 string guitarS anymore. It would be realy hard to start on that 12 string guitar but on the other way i still could just put 6 strings on and have a wide fingerboard but only 6 strings to make life easier for me and my poor (beginner) fingers. On the other side, my goal is sooner or later a 6 string western guitar, or maybe even a guitarcitter (nice medivial and folk like sounding). Anyway, after checking out some youtube tutorials for e guitar i think i may like to play that as well (but only secondary)

what do you guys, who do play e guitars, think?

at least for the people around me it would be nice if i practise with headphones on an e guitar instead of my big and loud 12 string western guitar 😉

Good for you Andreas! Learning multiple instruments just makes you a better musician.
Big hands vs. little hands is is nothing to worry about. Look at someone like Stevie Ray Van .. HUGE hands and one of the best blues guys ever. He could choke a guitar like no other. Then look at some one like gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt ... he had 2 paralized fingers on his fretting hand!
I have very small hands so I find large stretched bar chords a challange. Great thing about the guitar is the various ways you can find your own way around playing a piece and adapt. Because of this it is vary easy to recognize a player by their sound.
What I do for quite electric playing is to use a multieffects pedal ... like a POD or a g series ZOOM. They have different amplifier voicings and any guitar effect you could think of and usually a drum machine with a headphone output. IF you have an Ipod or Iphone/Ipad you can get iRig or another similar effects package to practise quietly.

Good choice! Can't go wrong with a fender amp!

Check out the tpdri forum ... these guys are Telecaster nuts but they love all guitars. The also sponser a yearly build-your-own guitar contest and a great give-a-way , which is on right now. If you donate $25 bucks to them you get one entry to win one of 6 high end or custom made guitars.

http://www.tdpri.com/

Steviesnacks is also good ... he sells vedio lessons (Texas Blues stlye) but has lots of free content:

http://steviesnacks.com/

Justin.com and Learn and master guitar are my recommendations, Learn and master guitar is one of many "Dvd based learning systems" by the Legacy teaching company the guitar learning system is spread over 20 dvd's, 6 audio cd's and 2 work book manuals the system will teach you every thing from simple melody playing to advanced chords and soloing. With many of the popular music playing styles covered.

The legacy community forum
Legacy product page

The manuals are free to download so you can see the topics covered here's a link to my own manual this is the first of two, I bookmarked it myself for easier reading and learning.

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