Do You Play Electric And Acoustic?

[Daza152]

I guess this is about guitars and not just playing guitars.....I am guessing some you only play the electric, right? well I want to know can you also play the acoustic as well as the electric?? I change from day to day which I'm gonna play( excuse the rhyme)...If I'm having troble with my electric which most of the time, I change back to the acoustic, which sounds a heck of alot better when I strum that.. However the electric sounds great when I play a lead or solo, not necessarily better just really good also. I know you will be reading this BG, so do you also play the acoustic and are you as good on that as your electric playing, and how often compared to the amped one? Do any of you think its easier on the electric or weather or not you give them equal time................................

Daza. (yes another thread, anyway I'm curious and I can't find this on "Google")

[afiman86]

I love playing electric, but for tutoring i use my acoustic...i dont like playing acoustic

[DSilence]

I play both all the time, I often jam or write on the acoutic then use the electric for recording/practicing. Plus there are different styles of music written on both. Id play like jack Johnson on the acoustic and play heavier rock/metal stuff on the electric which makes sense? lol

[hamo]

Yes. Although I'm between acoustics at the moment.

[Bg]

Yes I play both - its all guitar right? I just don't like playing acoustic for anything other than slide and even then I'm just not into it that much. I don't listen to any acoustic music so have no will to play, its just not my thing, I've yet to find any acoustic that I like playing, that I like the tone of or that feels comfortable. Admittedly I haven't tried that hard and I do own a nice middle range electro-acoustic that I pick up about once every 6 months, but I just don't want to play 'happy-clappy' songs, or anything by Jack Johnson.

I think you need to get the 'can you play acoustic and electric' thing out of your mind - you play one you can play the other, the notes are exactly the same

[Terexgeek]

I play both, but not usually at the same time. I find it easier to put one guitar down before picking up the other guitar; little tip for beginners there.

[DSilence]

I play both, but not usually at the same time. I find it easier to put one guitar down before picking up the other guitar; little tip for beginners there.

[Bg]

I play both, but not usually at the same time. I find it easier to put one guitar down before picking up the other guitar; little tip for beginners there.

Maybe what I"m doing wrong, or is it that I despise 'singer-songwriters'

[Anvil Amps Alan]

I am un - learning self taught acoustic and having formal lessons from my buddy Steve.
Need to be proficient with Pentatonic scale, next blues scale, then will move on to bending on electric.
I just scored a stunningly good 9 year old Blueridge BR6S acoustic so I no longer have to learn on my cheap Ashton.
My Korean PRS se eg action has been properly set up with a new bone nut and I have some fender pups to fit, this guitar is now VERY nice and will serve me well when I get better with electric.

[Vince]

Not me. Last time I touched an electric was at the last gear fest and only because Rog had brought one.

Having said that... I still need to be amplified when I play with other people and because I move around a fair bit when I play, standing still in front of a mike is not an option. So there's limits to my acoustic purism.

[handsoffmatt]

I am primarily an electric player. That is where my heart is, and every week I am looking forward to the end of the week for my Friday/Saturday "electric" gigs.

Having said that, over the last couple of years I have been playing more and more acoustic - to the point where I am now doing 1-2 purely acoustic gigs every week.

Whilst I still prefer to play electric, I have really learned to love the acoustic side of things and watch my acoustic playing "style" develop over time. I love how an acoustic guitar gives you the ability to be the whole "band". Bass, rhythm, harmony - it's all there with a clever right hand and when you get those sublime moments where you can bring it all together - it's very satisfying indeed.

[calling card]

I play both... lemme tell ya a story, a long time ago I set out to learn guitar but my head got full of junk & boogers, the dream died after about five years. All I had after that was an acoustic, the songs I'd learnt were slowly forgotten over time. It came down to the E shuffle & a crude rendition of Green Onions, Hey Joe, a la Grange sort of thang, Wish you were here intro, Oh yeah there was this bluesy rythmic sort of Venus thing.
Just crude chords nothing fancy, it was all about the rhythm, never really folky or intricate like I may have hoped for. The guitar (as it still does) could stand for long periods untouched, became more of a thing to entertain the kids with.

Somehow the electric was blocked out by a feeling of regret or something about a bad point of time in my existance. I had an electric in the house storing it for a mate for years. My eldest boy probably about 10 years old then one day asked me about the electric guitar that he would secretly check out in it's case from time to time. I said lets get that thing & play it, wired an old stereo speaker into the blown Jansen lil' dazzler. I set to work pounding out all my old chops with a load of gain dialed on the amp. The two older boys had wide eyes & chins dropped on the ground, the youngest one at 3 yrs ran off & got a plastic bucket & sticks, started furiously hammering out a beat.

Looking back I think that day changed us forever, we all play electric rock&roll, me I like the blues. Props to my youngest kid - he learnt all his acadaca licks with a dreadnought & the stereo playing. Looking back the acoustic is/was fantastic open chord & rhythm training. Countless times rolling thru that twelve bar - like Burt Munro the worlds fastest Indian "just one good run".

[thehenderson]

I do both, they sound different!

[Andy_Chandler]

I play both, but not usually at the same time. I find it easier to put one guitar down before picking up the other guitar; little tip for beginners there.

you're doing it wrong!

[xCaptainx]

I'm horrible at accoustic. Never picked it up and have been playing punk/metal/hardcore since I started guitar/bass. If someone handed me an accoustic, I'd have no idea what to do apart ffrom basic chords