My kid wants to play electric guitar, but isn’t everyone is supposed to start on the acoustic?
That’s actually a myth. There really are no significant benefits to starting on acoustic guitar, especially if the child or teenager already has his heart set on the electric guitar. Indeed, if a child is young enough to have not been exposed to the rock music of the teenagers, we will usually start him or her off on an acoustic guitar. But a kid who wants to play Van Halen or Ozzy Osbourne will likely get frustrated if he has been given an acoustic guitar but wants to play electric. There is one exception – small fingers (age 5 to 8) are really best to start on a nylon string acoustic instrument, be it a classical guitar or ukulele.
