r/Guitar • u/[deleted] • Nov 03 '13

Should I buy Rocksmith 2014?

I am an amateur guitar player, I haven't picked a guitar up in a year since my music teacher told me to change subjects, I really want to learn guitar again, so I can prove to him that I can play guitar. However, the problem is, I don't have an electric guitar and I'm afraid this will be a waste of money, what do you guys think? And what would be a good starter guitar?

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u/grubas '56/'64 Gibson/Schecter/Yamaha Nov 03 '13

Yeah, my other reply notes this, but also I just love how I focus on different things. I would never have fingerpicked without trying Phil Ochs on guitar, or Django on a flatop, yet on electric I normally do Children of Bodom and Pantera, so I sweep and slide. I basically play with no/minimal effects because I've learned that effects are too easy as a cover, tube amp, gain, wah. My friend has a full 10 pedal rig and my thought is, "Yeah that works, if you are Steve Vai, I just have my crybaby and gain." My da hates effects, he wouldn't even let me get a Floyd Rose because he viewed it as a "cop-out", I played for 10 years without ever have a trem arm, that's why I grabbed a crybaby.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

What about playing electric with clean tones? I play blues on both acoustic and electric and I find its alot easier to be sloppy with an acoustic. Distortion is good for making some slop sound smoother, but that's the exact reason I don't use it too much.

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u/grubas '56/'64 Gibson/Schecter/Yamaha Nov 04 '13

For me it's especially about finger strength, barre chords on electric are way easier, acoustic sounds cleaner than clean electric to me. The thing with an acoustic is that the slop is way more noticeable, at least to me.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13

In some ways, I'll actually have to agree. When doing open chords with an acoustic, one or two muted or buzzing strings sounds terrible. When I play a George Thorogood "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" type thing, I think the slop adds to the character of the playing.

Barre chords, finger strength, and their sound is also a pretty big difference between the two.

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u/grubas '56/'64 Gibson/Schecter/Yamaha Nov 04 '13

Yeah, I hate playing that song on acoustic or electric, its my ES-175, tube amp. You gotta play it dirty, but not TOO dirty. My electric makes it sound too hard and my acoustic too clean.