Basic equipment for learning guitar players

Do not put off learning the guitar because you can’t afford top of the range gear. First of all it is best to start to learn using a nylon string acoustic guitar. Steel strings are rough on the fingers when you are just learning how to play. So whether you get it from ebay or the local music store, you need an acoustic guitar that’s halfway decent. It doesn’t need to be expensive, just playable.
When it comes to buying an electric guitar, you can easily start off with one of the less expensive models. You can get the buzz from playing a real honest to goodness electric guitar on whatever no-frills stratocaster copy your music store has, and it will get you through your initial guitar playing experiences.
There are two bits of equipment which are part of the discipline of electric guitar playing. They are a Guitar Tuner and a metronome. You can get a free metronome at Tab Guitar Lessons
Get into the habit of tuning your guitar from time to time during practice sessions - you might be surprised how far out you can get without being aware of it! While you are first learning how to play electric guitar you probably won’t be able to do too much jamming with friends until you develop a familiarity with your instrument. So once you feel you have got the hang of a song or a riff, try it out with the metronome.

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