Choosing the perfect electric guitar can be difficult. If you have sufficient funds, you can choose any. Many musicians prefer an inexpensive guitar at the beginning of mastering the instrument.
If you're worried about making the mistake of choosing your first electric guitar, it may be wiser to take an experienced guitarist with you to the store. Usually, a person who is fond of playing the guitar, over the years, has time to try instruments of different companies and price categories, respectively, knows the obvious pros and cons of many instruments. In the event that there are no guitarists among your acquaintances and friends, you will have to choose an instrument yourself.
Issue price
The best way to master the instrument is to take a cheap guitar. Now in many online stores there are budget options for electric guitars, the cost of which will be 6-9 thousand rubles. Also, sometimes whole kits for beginners come across, which include an electric guitar, strap, cords, a low-power amplifier, a tuner, a case, several picks and other useful little things. Of course, the quality of the instruments themselves in such sets does not shine, but such electric guitars are quite suitable for studying various scales and simple riffs.
If you have a sufficient amount of money, you can buy middle-class electric guitars that cost 15-19 thousand rubles. Such instruments will last you longer, and will also please you with a stable and non-floating system. The brightest representatives of this group of electric guitars are Fender Squier, some models Ibanez, Epiphone, B. C. Rich and others.
The form
If you have outlined the price category, also decide on what kind of music you will play. For example, if you are a fan of heavy music, then you better choose an electric guitar from Jackson or B. C. Rich. For blues performers, the Les Paul, Fender, and Epiphone telecaster guitars work well. "Statocaster" of any company will be an ideal option for playing various genres of music for guitarists of any level.
Novice guitarists can choose the shape of the guitar that they like best. Also, don't forget about pickups. Guitars designed for heavy music usually have 2 pickups - humbuckers. For a beginner, it is better to buy an electric guitar with 3 pickups - 2 singles and 1 humbucker. In this case, the sound will be cleaner, which is optimal during the training period.
Build
Novice guitarists without a good ear for music and education are unlikely to be able to determine the quality of a new guitar's tuning. That is why it is better to entrust this to professional musicians. If there are none, then you will have to play something yourself (preferably works you know well) and listen - is there any falsity in the sound or not.
