need a beginners guitar

I'm going to assume you're after an acoustic guitar, best thing to do is either look on gumtree/ebay for something second hand or head down to your local music/guitar shop and ask someone. Most of the people who work in these shops (in my experience) love what they do and are pretty helpful.

£50 should be enough to get you a decent enough second hand acoustic guitar to play about on.
 
Seriously, just buy one of these.

http://www.argos.co.uk/m/static/Product/partNumber/4256063/searchTerm/acoustic+guitar.htm

Not amazing but gives you all you need. I love that one of the selling features on the spec list is 'real wood', makes me chuckle every time.

But given the price and what you get in the package you would struggle to get a better beginner pack sub £60. Although you can get the same guitar on Amazon with less accessories for £45.

It's very easy to get a better guitar but you will need to spend double that at least to make it worth while. Second hand at this budget is always a bit hit and miss.

You would get c30-40 back selling this one on Gumtree anyway if you don't enjoy playing.

Thefretboard forum is pretty useful if you haven't been on there yet.
 
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Andelusion said:
If you're after an acoustic get a classical first, the strings are easier to press down.
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Sorry, disagree that classical guitar is a better guitar for beginners.

Yes the classical nylon strings are easier to depress compared to steel strings but playing the latter will help develop calices and also due to neck width, a classical guitar will be harder to play chords.

Stick to a standard steel strung acoustic if I were you.

To qualify that, go for a classical guitar if you want to learn classical.
 
If you play enough you'll develop callouses* anyway. It's true the necks are larger on a classical but in my experience as a guitar teacher for 9 years the extra nut width makes it easier to fret individual notes in chords and helps prevent muting adjacent open strings. Unless you've got very small hands then the neck profile isn't an issue.
 
I'm against classical. I was taught on classical and I still carry all of the unusable habits forced by nylon strings 30 years later - the "along the string vibrato" rather than across the fretboard or wrist vibrato, lazy string pressure in my pinky, thumb in the middle of the neck rather than wrapped around etc, etc.
 
The is no need to buy a classical guitar when you can get acceptable quality steel string acoustics new in budget.

Cheap classical guitars are counter productive especially if trying to learn chords.
 
Andelusion said:
If you play enough you'll develop callouses* anyway. It's true the necks are larger on a classical but in my experience as a guitar teacher for 9 years the extra nut width makes it easier to fret individual notes in chords and helps prevent muting adjacent open strings. Unless you've got very small hands then the neck profile isn't an issue.
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Yea, sorry, phone dictionary to blame and all that.

To be honest I still disagree as it would be a matter of re-learning (finer) finger positions and in theory having to strengthen hands up.

I know for me when I moved from an electric to an acoustic when I was learning it was quite a bit of work to build up muscles and technique as the electric was far far easier to play and I got away with poorer technique due to the ease of electric. When moving over to steel strung acoustic it took some re-learning of finger positions to ensure strings rang true (so easy to accidently mute) and I wish I'd have started out with steel strung acoustic in the first place.

Just my 2p worth.
 
That makes sense and I agree because electric is the easiest of all 3 options discussed, the OP has abandoned the thread so we'll never know if he actually wants an electric or acoustic guitar..
 
bought my newbie guitar in 2009 for £270...I can now play a whopping 1 tune on it, hoping to double my tunes library over the next 6 years.
 
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