I got a new guitar for my birthday yesterday!
It's electric!
It's a "starter" model, which is just right. I need to see if I enjoy playing electric before I go off an invest any money in a nice one.
So far, I see several things. First, it's wonderfully forgiving with misfingered chords. Nothing buzzes. Wow!
On the other hand, that fretboard is really narrow, so it's really hard to do anything fancy on the fretboard.
The strings are correspondingly close together, so it's hard to do any interesting fingerpicking.
And I find I have to be pretty careful with the pick, not to run into the pickups.
But it's really pretty....
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Heh - I was wondering if you'd post here about the new gear!! I was right!
Narrow fretboard/close strings: Yup. That's why part of me doesn't like electric guitars that much. Feels like a violin. lol.
& As far as I understand, you're not supposed to fingerpick that much or at all - you're only supposed to use a pick. Yet another reason why I don't play electric...
Maybe fingerpicking is easier on the bigger electric guitars - like the ones the jazz guys use. But don't quote me on that.
Glad you're having fun!!! :-)
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