Advice for beginner on first electric guitar

Can you put your hands on both and see which one feels better in your hands?

If not, I think the pickups will sound quite different, so think about if you typically want to be playing humbuckers or single coil pickups.

Just my $0.02. Good luck, and have fun buying your first guitar!

Looking at who you’re a fan of can help out also… If you’re a fan of a certain guitar player, and he or she primarily uses one style of guitar, that should give you some guidance… For example, if you’re shooting for a Zakk Wylde sound, a strat is not your guitar, but the SG would be.. The same goes with Stevie Ray Vaughn and a Les Paul…. If you like Stevie, get the Strat. Hope that makes sense and helps. T

as a beginner get the most comfortable guitar you can afford, and id say a stand, tuner(guitartuna app works just fine as a beginner) and stap and cable are the only things you need other than an amp, try a few out and go with what fits your personality and like said before look at guitarists you like and see what they use

When the first steps as guitarists, we don't feel much about the dynamics and the tone. I remember buying a guitar-amp combo like one or two times (those Yamaha packs), cheaper at the begin, but the guitar is just like a toy and cuts inspiration.

Because there was no internet or somebody in my town to give me advice, I had a hard time pushing off a good technique or even feelings through my cheap guitars. Until I bought a fine guitar I understood about dynamics, sound color and other techniques.

My suggestion, is you can grab an used but in a good state electric guitar (a Fender Squier but no from a pack), the same for an amp. At the begin, you just need a fine transistor amp, the Vox sounds right to me, but depending the music you like, you would prefer grabbing something cleaner (like a Mustang Fender amp or a Frontman), or either a Marshall amp.

On internet there are good deals, just search for them and you will be ok to start with it.

If you don't have much other choices, look at reviews from these two packs, Youtube videos and watch for any info they say. For the price and the stuff, I would go with the Fender, and then save money for the next guitar.

buy a gibson! why not? I mean, if this bankruptcy breaks them nowis your last chance LOL the prices will only go up if they stop making them!

but for real, a decent squier like a classic series is a good place to begin... or in the case of heavier sounds look at low end ESP and Schecter

pretty much everything cheap is made in the same handful of chinese factories anyway, so the logo on the headstock is immaterial, just get soemthing geared towards your favorite type of music. Until you break the $500 mark in a guitar you're looking at apples and apples comparisons, one beginner axe is much like another! If you have real money to spend then the Yamaha rev-stars are a real value for dollar. Good allarounders, well made, even the bottom of the line ones. But more than $200 if you have the seriously limited resources which your original post implies. Its a shame, when iw as a kid I bought a really solid Japanese squire strat from a neighbor for under $100 and my uncle just gave me a 60s fender tube amp he had laying around, but that was back before vintage value was an idea for any items but 50s Pauls, strats, teles, and 335s! Oh the things you could get for peanuts in the late 80s and early 90s! Sucks to be starting now! its a golden age of gear but the prices are very inflated for the good shit. This is a rabbit hole, even if you start cheap, if you fall in love with the guitar it'll cost you. I would say that if you really want to do this, spend as mucha s you can affrd NOW. The prices aren't comin down

If you are a complete beginner I'd recommend the SG for the simple reason that its scale length is just that little bit shorter than the 25.5" of the Strat. When one's starting out I think it's worth making everything as easy as possible for your hands to find their way around the fret board. Starting on a shorty would help minimise the initial frustration of those seemingly impossible chord stretches. Other noteworthy shorter scale guitars are the Les Paul, Mustang, and the Jaguar. There are plenty more!

one more peice of advice for beginners... don't wear assless chaps on stage at your first show. Just don't.

Wait until the second show? Also, seems like there is a good story behind this...

I don't know that the gentleman who made this newbie mistake would appreciate me divulging the details... and he knows where I live.

if only someone had told me this before...

it's an experience type of lesson

if you're really serious about getting started on the guitar maybe you wanna cut to the chase and go for my favorite guitar/amp setup:

https://imgur.com/a/BiDH4jA

only like 3 to 4k on the copper panel ac30 and then somewhere between 500 and a grand ona serviceable tele or esquire with some decent pots and pickups unless you wanna go Fender AVRI or get a King Bee relic or soemthing... that's <$5k and then you're done until you want a strat or a gibson! you'll be damned happy and, lemmee tell ya, if you can teach yourself to play while leaning to wrangle this man-sized guitar and amp setup you'll be able to kick ass playing anything! I wish I had gotten here back in the 90s, took me the whole decade to figure out this was my main deal. Just throw your chips in hard right now, why fuck around? If you stck with guitar you're doing great and if you don't? the resale on copper panel ac30s just goes up, up up and a good tele always holds value unless you damage it. Also, you're going to learn a lot about electronics servicing your vintage Vox ;-)

Squier Affinity series whichver shape you want Also Epiphone Les paul special 2 is a good shout and a small fender combo

As being said, don't honestly go for flashy 100 in 1 guitar packs. When you will learn a bit bout playing and maintaining your instrument you'll see how unnecesery half of this accesory is. If you want to play more heave music, G400 will be better choice. You are lucky to start out right now, because guitars like this can be easily upgraded and will serve you even on live performances :) But don't forget to check as many guitars in your price range as you can, maybe scale and neck shape won't suit your hands :)

Okay, two things:

First, this might make your decision a bit harder but it gives you a few more options, I use this website called Sweetwater, I use it when im lookin' at new gear, and it's got some pretty afordable Guitars & Basses, so if I might suggest that as I think you may be interisted in that.

Here's their Electrics, use the price-range-selecter-thingy on the side.

And I also thought I'd suggest a few:

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#4

I personally own #4 and I think it's a great Instrument

Secondly:

Have you ever considered Bass? You may think Bass is a boring Instrument but it's actually really cool.

Here's a Video of my idol Cliff Burton of Metallica preforming his signature Bass Solo "Anisthesia (Pulling Teeth)":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kdUJ5NAnTc

Here's a link to and some Basses on Sweetwater:

Here's their Basses

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I also personally own #4, but I got it 2nd hand at a Pawn Shop -Another good place to find gear- and it was in good shape, It plays good and sounds good too.

Hope all this helps!