Yeah, I'm with Bee-dubya-ell, Cluin and Willie-o all the way on this
one, I have an acoustic, an acoustic with pickup and an electric.
No prizes for guessing which gets played the least (very, very rarely).

The electric is far too unforgiving! Every little fluffed note, every
little touch on the fretboard is there, you have to be GOOD to sound
good, you can't get away with anything!

With the acoustic I can sound reasonably good (sometimes), and
although it obviously doesn't sound the same, you can get away
with playing along with some of the rock stuff.

If I had bought an electric before I bought the acoustics I would
not be playing, and enjoying my music now! I would have given up a
long time ago, feeling that I would never, ever be able to play it.
I won't sell the electric, but I will come back to it later when I
feel that I am good enough to make it sound reasonable.

Incidentally, it always seems to be much more difficult to associate
what your fingers are doing on the fretboard with the sounds coming
out of the speaker on the electric, than it does on the acoustic.


PLEASE! Get an acoustic first. (You can always trade it for
an electric later).

Cheers

Fieldvole