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"Any Guitarists Here? A little advise please."

I'm looking to get myself an electric guitar but as it'll be my first, I would like to know what would be a good guitar to get me started.

At the mo I'm looking at the Squire Strat by Fender, it's from Argos and I would like to know if it's any good or if it's not worth it. (£200) with amp included.

I'm sure someone here will know of a better guitar I could get, but remember I'm just starting and I don't want anything too expensive just yet.

Thanks.

Learning guitar rules, I started at christmas and am now pretty sweet.
I play stuff along the lines of Thrice, Blink, and I make up my own bad ass stuff.

Judah Ben-Hur wrote:
> Or if you have breasts.

Including man breasts?

Lou Role wrote:
> Yea thanks, but I've decided not to get the Argos pack.
>
> I've found a good music shop

Haggle them like a fox though. Usually if you are buying a few things they will give you money off. Or if you have breasts.

Yeah that's quite good. Most of them are wrong though.

I just found this site:

www.mxtabs.net

They have tabs for almost every song you can think of so that's a good start.

My first is an Encore, but it's busted, so I'm taking it back to Argos and might give em an extra £50 or so to get a Squier Fender :)

Yea thanks, but I've decided not to get the Argos pack.

I've found a good music shop, where I got my tab book, and the staff seem to know what their talking about so if I have any problems, I can talk to someone in the know and get some good advice. I'm gonna get my guitar next Monday from that shop, so I'll see what kind of pack I can get next week.

I'll have between 250 and 300 quid so I should get a decent pack.

The amp it comes with is probably a 5w practise amp (ie: balls)

Well I managed to pick up a Tablature book today it's the 'Guitar Tabs, White Pages' book. I think it'll be helpful and the guys in the shop gave me the names of a couple of recommended instructors in my area.

I've gave one of them a call and he charges £20 an hour, is this the usual price you'd expect to pay? He has also advised me to start off with an Electric Guitar instead of an Acoustic. He says some good guitars for beginners are the Squier Strat range, an Epiphone Les Paul or a Caster. I've never heard of a Caster till now so I'll need to look at those.

Anyway, does this seem like some reasonable advice to you? I'm gonna phone the other instuctor later since he must not be home just now.

Thanks again for any help.

Thanks gamezfreak, that site was very useful and I'll regularly have a read through it. I'm going into town tommorrow and I'll look around different music stores, I'll pick up a tablature book if I can, and any other mags or books that'll be useful.