| Guitar players cover a number of styles of music, | | | | nature of the guitar itself it's a lot softer. Sure, |
| from blues to jazz to rock to pop to speed metal | | | | you can turn down an electric guitar's volume but |
| and on and on. And since every style of music is | | | | it's more than just that. Acoustic guitars are much |
| different and every guitar is different, it would | | | | easier to control dynamics on. The reason is |
| then seem a natural conclusion that each style of | | | | because the sound is not artificially amplified. If |
| music is going to have a guitar that is more suited | | | | you pluck the string softly you're going to get a |
| for that style. So, the question, for those who | | | | soft tone. If you pluck it harder, you'll get a louder |
| are considering taking up the guitar and getting | | | | tone. Of course an acoustic guitar is never going |
| their first one is, what guitar do you get? If | | | | to get up to the volume of an electric unless you |
| you're interested in jazz do you get the same | | | | mic it.On the other side of the spectrum, if you're |
| kind of guitar as somebody who wants to play | | | | going to be playing in a heavy metal band, your |
| speed metal? Well, it might be an interesting | | | | acoustic guitar, with all the other instruments |
| experiment, but most likely the answer would be, | | | | playing, such as keyboards, bass and drums, |
| no. So, what guitar should each person get, | | | | won't even be heard. Plus the tone quality of the |
| depending on what kind of music they want to | | | | guitar itself just won't fit into that kind of music. |
| play? Hopefully this article will try to answer that | | | | By their nature, electric guitars have a sharper |
| question.Music is very diverse to say the least. | | | | and harder sound. Add distortion effects to them, |
| Even within each style there are variations. For | | | | which are hard to do with acoustics and you've |
| example, in rock there is hard rock, soft rock, | | | | got a sound that is quite unique. That's why there |
| metal, acid and a host of other sub categories. | | | | are so many different electric guitar |
| The sounds and more specifically, the dynamics | | | | sounds.Obviously, this is a very general overview |
| of each are quite different. While The Eagles and | | | | of style to guitar choice. You can get a lot more |
| the Allman Brothers might both be considered | | | | specific, such as what type of acoustic do you |
| country or southern rock, depending on which side | | | | get if you're a country guitar player as opposed |
| of the fence you're on, their sounds are quite | | | | to somebody who plays jazz? John Denver based |
| different. So without nitpicking we're going to take | | | | on lot of his patented sound on 12 string guitars |
| the broad approach over the specific.If you're | | | | while Harry Chapin stayed more with the |
| going to play music that is relatively soft such as | | | | traditional 6 strong acoustic.Maybe for a future |
| folk music, you probably don't want to get | | | | article we'll dive more deeply into the finer points |
| yourself a Rickenbacker electric guitar. Most likely | | | | of picking a guitar based on the style of music |
| you'll want an acoustic guitar with a nice mellow | | | | you play. |
| and round tone. Why acoustic? Well, by the | | | | |