Cheap Electric Guitars - Start Your Playing Off On The Right Foot

Cheap electric guitars have improved dramatically since I started playing guitar - ooh, over 30 years ago now - don't like to think about how old that makes me!

I started my own electric guitar playing career on a cheap electric guitar. It was a Satellite strat copy and boy was it awful! I mean really awful. The action was sort of cheese grater. Very difficult to play beyond the fifth fret. But it was just about all I could afford with my wages from the part time job I had. I was still at school at the time and desperately wanted an electric guitar (never been much into acoustics) so that I could attempt to emulate my musical heroes like Ritchie Blackmore, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.

Now, despite the guitar being absolutely horrendous, I loved it and polished it with great care. I learnt my first few open chords on it, learnt some basic blues riffs and I was away.

You certainly never forget your first electric guitar - good, bad or indifferent - so it's as well to get the best one you can afford.

But as I said at the start, cheap electric guitars are much better now than they've ever been and you needn't feel that you're losing out too much if you really can't afford the rarified prices of a really top model like your heroes play.

Indeed, the top manufacturers like Fender and Gibson, and even to some extent, Paul Reed Smith, do now consciously cater for beginner guitarists in their ranges. And, think about it, it would be a pretty poor show from a marketing perspective if they deliberately sold you short on the first guitar you buy with their name on it, now wouldn't it?

If you buy a cheap electric guitar with a top manufacturer's name on it and it turns out to be a pile of complete rubbish, how likely are you to buy another electric guitar at whatever price from them again? Not likely, right? And they know this so they're not likely to compromise their good name by not providing you with a basic guitar that feels ok, plays ok and sounds ok right from the start.

No, rest assured that you can indeed pick up some decent bargains in cheap electric guitars these days that will not only start you off on the right foot as a beginner, but can also stay with you and see you further down the road in your playing career.

We'll be having a look at some of the better models in the rest of this Website.

Check out some of the great cheap electric guitars on offer here.