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If you’ve got questions about any of the videos in the beginner guitar course, feel free to ask them here and I or other ActiveMelody members will jump in and help out.

Hi,

in your video you said that acoustic guitar is better for begginers then electric… What about eletric acoustic?

By electric acoustic are you referring to a standard hollow-body electric guitar (like a Gibson ES 335) or an acoustic guitar that has a pickup in it so that it can be plugged in.  To be honest, either of those scenarios would be perfectly fine for learning to play guitar.  You could even start learning on an electric guitar, the only difference is that it’s SO much easier - which means when you get around to picking up an acoustic you might struggle a little.  I just like the simplicity of an acoustic - no amps needed, just music at it’s purest. 

If you run into any other questions along the way feel free to post

well I was reffering more to STAGG SW203CETU… Or similar… I assume that if you play without amp it is very similar to acoustic guitar. Or am I wrong? :D
One more question: is there amp for acoustic and eletric like all in one, or they have to be separate amps?

btw, nice site and wery educational videos

Hey Siddharta, ah ok so the Stagg acoustic guitar with a pickup (great starter guitar by the way).  Yes, that is considered an acoustic guitar (even though technically it can be plugged into an amp), so your playing style on that guitar would be no different than playing on an acoustic guitar with no pickup.

As for your second question, usually they are separate because they handle tones very differently, although there’s nothing stopping you from plugging your Stagg acoustic into a regular electric guitar amplifier (that’s what I usually do), I’ve never bought an actual acoustic amp - although I do love the way they sound.

-brian