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I would go for it! I play both. I feel like learning acoustic stuff helps my electric playing, and vice versa.
The really nice thing about the electric is that you don’t have to push as hard on the strings for fretting, so you can play acoustic first and then when your hands get a little tired switch to electric. I found it easier to learn to barre chords on the electric for the same reason.
Also, a lot of amps have a headphone jack these days which lets you rock out without irritating everyone in your household 🙂
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Hi, @MississippiJeff ! My recommendation would be to do each daily challenge for ten minutes and see what you can do. Slow the video way down on the playalong if you need to. At the beginning they all won’t come easy, that’s for sure!
On days where you don’t groove on the daily challenge and you have a little more playing time, the skills courses are really nice. There are flatpicking and fingerpicking kickstart courses that I found really helpful when I was beginning, and those helped me with some foundations for the daily challenges as well.
Congratulations on finishing the 30 day challenge!
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You might have some heavy strings on that Ibanez (besides any issues with the action) – when you bring it in for the setup you could try going a size thinner, which will make the barre chords easier…
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That’s a BIG win, if you ask me! Congratulations!
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Strong work! That’s an amazing streak!
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Congratulations on your TACiversary! It sounds like quite a guitar renaissance! Best wishes for the next year!
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Thanks for posting your improv! I really enjoyed it!
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That was really nice! It was very melodic and you had such a nice, relaxed pace to your phrasing! Great work!
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Congratulations! Strong work on your first year!
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That sounds amazing! Congrats on what sounds like an awesome family experience!
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Really nice improv! That was really lyrical!
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Great performance, @Kitman!
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Great tune, and really well played! You have a really good voice!
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I think it’s due to the lighter gauge strings. On my electric the smallest string is 0.0095″ in diameter, on my acoustic it’s 0.013″.
The string company Stringjoy has a tension calculator: https://tension.stringjoy.com/
You can play with the numbers, but on my acoustic the tension of the high E string is about 30 pounds and on my electric it’s about 16 pounds.
Less tension makes a string easier to fret and easier to bend. I think that’s why the barre chords are so much easier on the electrics…
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Super cool! Thanks for reposting these!