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playing acoustic or classical helps to improve on the electric a lot... it doesn't matter if you usually play hard rock or grindcore... it does help
playing acoustic instrument is physically harder... after messing around with the acoustic playing the electric feels so goddamn easy.
the other thing is how it improves your picking/strumming hand fingers... there's so many cool things you can do with fingers.... just listen to Jeff Beck... so many different colours.... whenever I play some slower lead part I try to do it with my fingers... the tone is much cooler and fatter.
funny thing is... when I started to play guitar... I started out with the acoustic... I started with the blues and that's what I've been playing the most in my life but at the same time I practiced classical pieces. Of course theoretically I had no idea what the heck I was doing but somehow I got the idea how the classical guitar worked because of playing it constantly. Funny... when I play with electric... I don't use any of those classical guitar ideas... maybe because I try to avoid it to sound just like another neo-classical whatever... Instead I try to use some Debussy-like melodies which aren't very common in guitar playing... but subconsciously I still use some of those voicings that I got from playing classical guitar even though it's not classical music.
But whenever I pickup an acoustic instrument... I come up with little classical etudes and whatnot automatically. I dunno how... but it's kinda programmed in my brain.
but I mostly played acoustic with metal strings... I just loved that sound more... real classical and flamenco playing usually needs to be done with fingernails but I had a bad habit of biting them all the time.
I still managed to get the flamenco tremolo down somehow... but with fingertips like bassplayers do it.
It's helluva lot harder to do that fast shit with fingers but when you get it really down you can fly a lot faster than with a pick because mechanically fingers can play a lot more notes than with the picking hand motion.
playing acoustic instrument is physically harder... after messing around with the acoustic playing the electric feels so goddamn easy.
the other thing is how it improves your picking/strumming hand fingers... there's so many cool things you can do with fingers.... just listen to Jeff Beck... so many different colours.... whenever I play some slower lead part I try to do it with my fingers... the tone is much cooler and fatter.
funny thing is... when I started to play guitar... I started out with the acoustic... I started with the blues and that's what I've been playing the most in my life but at the same time I practiced classical pieces. Of course theoretically I had no idea what the heck I was doing but somehow I got the idea how the classical guitar worked because of playing it constantly. Funny... when I play with electric... I don't use any of those classical guitar ideas... maybe because I try to avoid it to sound just like another neo-classical whatever... Instead I try to use some Debussy-like melodies which aren't very common in guitar playing... but subconsciously I still use some of those voicings that I got from playing classical guitar even though it's not classical music.
But whenever I pickup an acoustic instrument... I come up with little classical etudes and whatnot automatically. I dunno how... but it's kinda programmed in my brain.
but I mostly played acoustic with metal strings... I just loved that sound more... real classical and flamenco playing usually needs to be done with fingernails but I had a bad habit of biting them all the time.
I still managed to get the flamenco tremolo down somehow... but with fingertips like bassplayers do it.
It's helluva lot harder to do that fast shit with fingers but when you get it really down you can fly a lot faster than with a pick because mechanically fingers can play a lot more notes than with the picking hand motion.
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