Originally Posted by
Unleashed Hell
Yes, Guitar Center counts by USD (for me at least). Basically, you will not need anything more than a starter guitar for now - and to be honest - buying a crazy-ass custom expensive guitar as a 1st guitar is a mistake for several reasons:
1) no offense, but the new guys don't understand much in specific sounds and stuff like that (trust me, everyone that plays guitar has been through that), so you better look for COMFORT, rather than a specific sound.
2) Many times, new players CANNOT AFFORD any better gear, so you can't afford nothing but a beginner's gear anyway.
3) The cheaper beginner's gear is sometimes kinda easier to use (this is concerns amplifiers, more than guitars tbh), So you don't get some big bad-ass valve amp head with hundreds of functions that you can't figure out what to do with them. It's made in a way that allows you to learn, step-by-step, and not get stuck because you cant figure out how to use the gear to sound properly.
4) Most of the cheap guitars are pretty much made in a way that they don't feel really different one from another, at least from what I've seen, so that they may fit and feel pretty comfortable for just about any person.
So, in a few words:
Beginner's gear is most well-suited for beginner players, more affordable, less complicated, and is most likely the rightest choice for a new player.
Remember:
You WILL want eventually, and it will become ESSENTIAL at some point, that you change your equipment, because you're advancing and learning more and more as you go, and as it goes, you're taste in sound and music develops and changes, so basically a good guitarist never stays with the same guitar all the way.
Yes, you may settle on one perfect guitar for you eventually, but it is most likely to take a lot of time for you to settle on something specific - perhaps a year or two, perhaps ten. It all depends on how fast you will advance and how "unstable" you're taste is.
I met a guy who is a great guitar player, but he used to change guitars every now and then, and on a Metal-head message board I visit frequently, in the musician forums he was known as "The guy that sells" for a long time simply because he always bought new gear and sold the old one. Until he built his own Jackson Custom, he constantly changed guitars every now and then. So there you have it, a guy who had pretty much a hard-time settling on something specific.
Note: if you meant "last", as in if it will stay "in one piece", just about ANY guitar can last DECADES, amps, I think, would last for a little less, but my point is - you can keep just about any guitar or another piece of equipment in great shape for as long as you want, so long as you maintain you equipment well.
WOW, I wrote A LOT! hope the info is helpful.
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