{"id":6739,"date":"2015-10-17T17:36:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T00:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2015-10-17T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T00:36:18","slug":"acoustic-vs-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/acoustic-vs-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic Vs. Electric…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you play acoustic or electric guitar?<\/p>\n

That’s a question I get a lot, and it often goes hand in hand with, “What’s the difference between Blues Guitar Unleashed<\/a> and Acoustic Blues Guitar Unleashed<\/a>? Can I do Blues Guitar Unleashed on an acoustic guitar? And could I do Acoustic Blues Guitar Unleashed on an electric guitar?”<\/p>\n

Well, here’s the thing… the difference between what most people think of as “acoustic blues” and what people think of as “electric blues” has very little to do with the instrument itself. It has everything<\/em> to do with how you approach the music.<\/p>\n

One way to explain is, electric blues<\/em> is generally played with a band. In that context, you’re filling a role as one member of a group, rather than playing by yourself.<\/p>\n

In that context, an electric guitar makes sense because you usually have to amplify it to be heard… but with modern acoustic guitars and pickups, there’s no reason you can’t play in a band on an acoustic guitar (check out Keb Mo on youtube if you don’t believe me…)<\/p>\n

When you play in a band, things like the Little Chords<\/a> and the 2 Note Chords<\/a> really come into play because you have to stay out of the way of other instruments and players.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, when you play acoustic guitar (or what we commonly call acoustic guitar) you tend to be playing alone, or maybe with one other person. So you’re holding down all 3 elements of music<\/a> (harmony, rhythm, melody) which is GREAT for your guitar playing, no matter what type you play.<\/p>\n

Does that mean you can’t play acoustic blues on an electric guitar? Of course not… and does it mean you can’t play with a band on an acoustic? As long as you can amplify it to be heard you should be just fine.<\/p>\n

Blues is blues… the notes don’t change.<\/p>\n

So when you hear someone talk about acoustic blues, keep in mind they are probably talking more about playing solo (solo, as in, alone, not with a group) than playing with a band.<\/p>\n

And don’t believe for a minute that the type of guitar you play will dictate which type of music you are able to play. While it might be difficult to perform bends on an acoustic because of the thicker strings, most anything else is totally within reason on either type of instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you play acoustic or electric guitar? That’s a question I get a lot, and it often goes hand in hand with, “What’s the difference between Blues Guitar Unleashed and Acoustic Blues Guitar Unleashed? Can I do Blues Guitar Unleashed on an acoustic guitar? And could I do Acoustic Blues Guitar Unleashed on an electric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6744,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions\/6744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}