I'd love to be linked to a site that can teach me the basics of guitar playing.
I haven't purchased one just yet because I'm not sure I know the difference between a classical and an acoustic. I understand that they both fall under the acoustic category, but hopefully I'm making sense. Physically, I know what makes the two different from eacother, but could you give examples of songs played with them that I would know of to figure out which I'd be happier with!
xThanks!
[ Answer this question ] Want to answer more questions in the Hobbies category? Maybe give some free advice about: Music? fatallygorgeous answered Tuesday June 19 2007, 10:51 pm: One big difference between a classical & a normal acoustic are the strings - classicals have nylon strings that don't hurt your fingers like normal guitar strings do. If you want to master a classical & play it like the spanish type guitar players do, then it's HARD. But if you're just looking for something to play around with & learn some chords & favourite songs & whatnot, then learning to play on a classical is just fine. If you ever wanted to switch to a normal guitar, though, your fingers wouldn't have any calluses built up because of the gentle nylon strings, so that could actually be a drawback, depending on how you want to look at it. [ fatallygorgeous's advice column | Ask fatallygorgeous A Question ]
jimmay answered Sunday June 17 2007, 7:26 pm: Well lets see classical can range from different styles in itself such as spanish guitar and such.
I would suggest going to youtube and typing in classical guitar to see what the styles and sounds are and at the same time to see just how difficult classical guitar can be.
I would say if your a begginer to just go with learning how play acoustic guitar, because it's probably gonna be easier for you and that way you can start learning classical guitar with ease.
I don't listen to much acoustic stuff but If you type into youtube "Dir en grey - Undecided" on this song listen to it at 2:07 minutes in it is more classical but still includes acoustic style for the most part Or "Dir en grey - akuro no oka" those are some sweet acoustic songs (for the most part) and dir en grey is an amazing and versatille band from Japan.
Oh and I almost forgot acoustic styles use more chord strumming which can sound beautiful and is where most song writting begins now a days as where classical ussually uses really fast fingerpicking and single notes which can be difficult for begginers but learning acoustic styles will teach you both slowly. I suggest Acoustic personally which is what I play as well as distorted electric. [ jimmay's advice column | Ask jimmay A Question ]
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