Thread:Stezie95/@comment-26843868-20151113135320/@comment-25308539-20151115145418

mmmhm, I know what you mean there. Electric guitar isn't really the instrument I have 'fun' on. I take it out for recording and experimenting rather than just chilling out. Not to mention, it's been more than a year with her, yet I still can't do any uniquely electric guitar techniques. Like you know, making the guitar squeal, doing bends, scratches, mutes, all that silly stuff. I feel that if I had actually started on electric guitar, I'd be able to do all that stuff by now rather than just being an acoustic guitar player who transferred bad habits over to electric.

But on the topic of fun, I'm still going to have to stress the role of learning proper technique and theory. Like any game, you just can't have fun til you know the rules hey. I'm relearning piano (last time I played was 10+ years ago), and so I printed out some nice sheet music and tried for it before realising I just didn't have the skill anymore. Gotta work through the hard yards of training my hands for it before I can actually have fun. (I also made the extremely wise decision to buy that limited edition mugi keytar just to get me motivated to relearn keyboard XD)

End of the day, you still can learn everything you need to playing electric alone, and by doing so, you'll be able to focus on specific electric guitar technique. But yeah, just having fun is all that matters really :)