When he first learned guitar, he was a freshman with a limited budget of 2,000 dollars, spent more than half a month obfuscating a folk guitar or an electric guitar, asking about a dozen of his fellow musicians, brushing all the entry guitars on the internet, even trying to play a few times in an instrument store, stepping on some pits, and finally making a choice for himself. Today we are talking about all guitar beginners with a limited budget, who are struggling with insomnia: should they buy folk guitars first or electric guitars
The budget is limited and every penny is carefully spent, and the money spent is sorely saved that it is not fit for itself, that it ends up at home, hurting both the money and the self-confidence of the guitar. When i had a budget of 2,000 bucks, i had a guitar test on the internet, and watched the bloggers say it's simple and simple, while watching the electric guitar run and the atmosphere is so full, and asking the fellow players around me, some say, “the newcomers must be a voter, quick and not troublesome”, and some say, “the electric guitar is easy, it doesn't hurt, it's tougher to stick”, and the more the questions go on, the more they try to give up buying the guitar, the more they feel wrong。
Then i stopped, asking people blindly, and instead of playing the piano in the context of my needs, and the real experience of the new accordion friends around me, and even went to the instrument store to try two entry-level folk guitars and electric guitars, repeatedly contrasting hands, tone and eventually biting his teeth and bought a folk guitar. Now, looking back, this is really the right choice, not only to get me on the road, but also to keep me up for eight years, until now, the entry-in-the-world guitar was kept at home, and occasionally played a round of memories. The budget is limited (within 2000 dollars) and beginners give priority to the voters ' rumour of guitar; if you can mention more than 2,500 dollars in the budget, and you clearly like rock, metal, popular sound style, and have a fixed room to practice the piano, then consider electric guitar. I had a budget of $2,000, picked a folk guitar, slowly started from the start, used it all the way up to now, and never regretted it。
First, understand: the budget is limited, the newcomers choose the guitar, and what is the core? "attached to my year's selection logic + error"
When the budget is limited, the newcomers choose the guitar, not to be led by a “graceful” and not to be blindly paid for, let alone to feel “as expensive as possible”, but to focus on three points: good hands, high value for money, and the ability to practice. After all, it is more important for starters to stay in practice than anything else. If they buy a guitar that is not good enough for themselves, they give up for a few days because of string pain, lack of movement, lack of hand. Cheap is a waste of money。
And when i had a budget of $2,000, and when i had to deal with folk tales and electric guitars, it was in the light of these three points, and i tried several wrongs in the middle, and slowly sorted out my thinking. First, it's good: the first thing the rookies fear is getting a guitar, with a string, a bullet, a red finger, and a few days of practice. When i went to an instrument store to try it, the first time i tried it, it did hurt a little, but after a few minutes of practice, it slowly adapted; and the electric guitar chord, although it was easy, needed electricity to hear the sound, and when it was naked, the sound was particularly dry and without power. Second, the price of sex is high: the budget is limited, it costs a minimum of money, it buys a handy, soundy guitar, it buys a few dozen, hundreds of firesticks, and i almost gave up the idea when i bought an 800-dollar folk guitar, and my friends stopped me in time, saying that the guitar was so far away, so bad with bad hands, that it was hard not only to play, but also to mistook my finger and hurt my hands. In the end, it will be able to continue: the guitar style will fit your preferences. You like to sing pop songs, folk songs, you choose guitars for singing, and if you like rock, you choose it for rock, and i like to play pop songs, so i'm inclined to sing guitars。
Personal perspective: the core of the guitar selection is not “selecting expensive”, but “selecting right”, which is the best value for money. Many newcomers buy electric guitars from the wind at the beginning, think it's nice and good, take pictures, and then find out that electric guitars are not enough to buy a nudist piano, need a mixer, effector, have no budget, end up buying a nudist piano, play it without sound, feel no hand, give it up for days, leave the guitar at home and eat ash, waste money and discourage self-confidence. Instead, it would be better to start with a folk guitar that is suitable for itself and has a high value for money, with a solid foundation, a sufficient budget, and a change in the power of the guitar, which is the basis of the previous folk rumour, which can be used in a later period, without any effort。
Ii. Folk rumours of guitar vs. Electric guitars, which must be seen by freshmen with limited budget (with a detailed comparison + my real experience + the case of a pedigree)
In the light of my experience of testing and later use, and the real cases of pedestals by my new accordion friends, you can compare them in detail with the folk guitars and electric guitars, each of which corresponds to the needs of new players with limited budgets, and after that you can quickly make a choice without having to struggle。
Point one: difficult to handle, more friendly folk and slightly complicated electric guitars. I went to an instrument store for the first time in the year to experiment with folk guitars and electric guitars, and i feel very different, and i still remember that experience. The folk guitar is a wooden guitar, which can be played without charge, without having to pick up the electricity, without having to get the hand, without having to debug the chords, although it hurts a little bit, but it doesn't hurt if you practice for three to five days, when your finger sharpens the cocoons, and the chords have been debugged, which are relatively low, and the new hands do not have to press too hard, and can easily touch the chords, even if they are girls。
The electric guitar, although lighter by string than by folk guitar (more thinner by string and lower by string), does not hurt much, but it has a fatal problem — the soundbox, the effector is needed to make a good sound. When the budget is limited, when the power guitar is purchased, there is no money to buy the soundbox and the effector, but only naked bullets, and when it is naked, the sound is so small and so dry, it is like playing an empty string, it is not good at all, and it is not working for days. I had a piano friend who, like me, had a budget of $2,000, bought an electric guitar with the wind, thought it was expensive and easy, didn't buy a soundbox, shot naked for a week, and said, “playing up like wood, no sense of accomplishment”, and finally left the guitar at home to eat ash, and then changed at a very low price, which was a waste of money. Another player, with a budget of $2,000, bought electric guitars and borrowed money to buy a cheap soundbox, which had a particularly poor sound quality, played particularly murmurs, became more and more irritating and eventually gave up。
Second: budget costs, more cost-effective rumours and high hidden costs of electric guitar (with limited budget focus). New recruits with limited budgets must be aware that the hidden costs of electric guitars are high and that it is not enough to buy a nudity, which is at the heart of the reason i abandoned it that year. An entry-level guitar, with a budget of about $2,000, looks like the popular guitar budget, but you still need to buy soundboxes (at least $500, at the entry level), effectors (300, at the entry level), connector lines, dials, piano packs, etc., which cost at least $2,800, far above the budget, which i cannot afford at all。
A folk guitar, with a budget of $1,500-2000, can be bought with a first-class guitar with a sense of hand and sound, without any extra accessories, with a hand to play, with no hidden costs and full value for money. I spent $1,800 on a first-rate folk guitar, without any extra money, without a soundbox, without an effector, without a wrapping, for six months, with a sense of satisfaction and sound, which is sufficient, even after a year, to meet the need for singing, simple fingerballs, without falling behind. Moreover, the retention rate of the introduction to the guitar is higher than that of the introduction to the guitar, and it would not be too much to lose if the change of hands were not to be practiced。
Third point: application of scenes, popular rumours and limitations on electric guitars. The use of folk songs and songs is particularly wide, whether they are popular or popular, they are well qualified and do not need electricity and can be practiced at any time or place, such as in dormitories, parks and rooms, where they can be played, especially convenient, and without fear of shouting. I was living in a dormitory, where there were so many people who couldn't pick up the electricity or open the speaker box, and he was particularly well suited to practice one hour at night, without the fear of yelling at his roommates, without the trouble of debugging the equipment, so that i could pick up and play, and progress so fast that after six months, he could sing a dozen pop songs。
The electric guitar, which is used mainly for rock, metal, popular sound, etc., and which must be connected to the battery, is difficult to continue if you live in a dormitory, in a rented house, without easy access to electricity and soundboxes. Moreover, there is a difference between electric guitars and folk guitars, and it is easy for the newcomers to learn guitars at the beginning and not to find the senses, such as the strength of the string, the angle of the string, which is not the same as the folk guitars, so it would be easier to practice the folk guitars first, to practice the basic fingering, the rhythm, and then to switch the guitars. I practiced a folk guitar for two years and then tried to use the guitar so quickly that i did not have to retrain the base, but only to adjust to the string and string of the guitar, which was one of the important reasons why i was a voter。
Fourth point: the later stage of escalation, the transition from folk rumours, and the high cost of electric guitar upgrades. I also took into account the fact that first-time guitars were bought by new recruits with limited budgets, but only at entry level, and after training, i would certainly like to change for better guitars. Even if you want to turn on the guitar in the future, it will be possible to use it, even if you want to do so in advance. It will not be in vain. I practiced a folk guitar for two years and then changed it to a better folk guitar, and then tried the guitar, so fast, without having to start again from scratch, saved a lot of time。
The electric guitar, on the other hand, is too much pressure for a starter with a limited budget if he first buys an entry-level nudity piano and wants to upgrade at a later stage, not only by changing the guitar, but also by changing the speaker, the effector and the cost of upgrading. And if you start buying electric guitars, you give them up after a few days of practice, you try to change the folk's story about guitars, and the electric guitar base of the previous exercise is of little use, equal to starting from scratch, especially wasting time and money. I had a friend of mine, who first bought an entry-level electric guitar, gave it up for a month, and then tried to change the folk guitar, but only to retweet it, practice the rhythm, and spend a lot more time than the new guy with the direct voters with the guitar。
Iii. Personal perspectives: budget constraints, newcomers choosing guitars, not following the wind, looking at needs (with my sincere advice + pit avoidance reminder)
In combination with my choices of the year, and the experience of my new accordion friends, one of the most tangible and sincere suggestions for starters with limited budgets: not blindly, not to think that electric guitars are good, not to buy them, to buy them, to look at their needs and budgets, to be fit for themselves, and to be able to practice them。
If you meet these points, the first voter is a guitar, and will never step on the pit: within $2,000 of the budget, he likes to sing pop songs, folk songs, he wants to practice the piano wherever he wants, he doesn't have a fixed playing space (e. G. Dormitories, rental houses), he just wants to take the guitar as a hobby, starting from scratch, he doesn't pursue rock, metal style, and he doesn't want to bear the additional hidden costs. That's what i used to do, like to play pop songs, live in dormitories, and within a budget of $2,000, i picked a folk guitar and practiced it for six months, and i was able to sing a dozen songs, especially with a sense of achievement, and slowly fell in love with the guitar, which was eight years. And most of the new players around me, with a limited budget, have been able to continue their exercise, and most of them have given up because of insufficient budgets and lack of access to the piano。
If you meet these points, you can consider electric guitars, but be careful: the budget can refer to more than 2,500 dollars, cover hidden costs such as soundboxes, effectors, clearly prefer rock, metal, popular sound styles, have a fixed playing space (e. G., your own room), accept the need for spare parts in order to practice the piano in the early stages, and have patience to adapt to the electric guitar. But even so, i would suggest that the newcomers start with a folk guitar, practice it for a period of one to two months, establish the basic fingering and rhythm, and buy the electric guitar, so that it is faster and difficult to give it up, and so that it does not get more and more frustrated because it is not solid。
There is also a particularly important reminder that i almost stepped on the pit in the past year: in the case of budgetary constraints, never buy dozens of firecrackers, be they folk guitars or electric guitars, whose hands are poor, their chords are high, their chords are particularly painful, and their sound is hard to hear, even their noises, which not only make it difficult to use, but also misleads my fingertips, which can be abandoned for days and wasted. In the beginning, the popular guitar budget is kept at $1,500-2000, which is priced with a sense of hand, a sound, and a chord range that has been calibrated and suitable for new hands; and the electric guitar (acoustics, effectors) budget is controlled at $2500 to $3,000, with the highest value for money, which also guarantees a sense of hand and sound, so that it can continue to practice. In addition, when buying guitars, it is important to go to the regular channels and not buy anonymous brands on the internet at any cost. It would be preferable to go to an instrument store and try to feel the touch and sound before deciding to buy them。
Summarizing: first scholars with a limited budget, priority voters with high pay, good work, no hidden costs, wide application, and the ability to lay the groundwork for a later transfer of the guitar are the surest options for newers; if the budget is sufficient and clearly prefers the electric guitar style, there is a fixed room to practice the piano, then the electric guitar is taken into account, not to be blind, to avoid the waste of money and to discourage self-confidence。
