Hey,
I’m still in my foundation training and making slow progress. That’s good!
I’ve 2 guitars, a Fender Strat and a Martin acoustic guitar. I usually practice with my electric. But I love my Martin and the feel of strumming chords.
Is it effective to switch between these 2 guitars? The acoustic guitar is more difficult to fret, so chromatic exercises become harder.
Cheers
Bjoern
Great question! This is really up to each player. I really enjoy each guitar's speciality so I enjoy playing a few diffeent guitars. My purpose is I can adjust my techniques to any size guitars.
I noticed it that it was a little difficult to control bending & chords on 22.5 inch scale vintage Fender Musicmaster and Duo Sonic from 1956 to 1964. So I develped my special soft light touch from my left fingers,
In general I practice 1) Chromatic 1212... 2) Classic etude 3) R 3 7 Swing groove with my old Epiphone Arch-top guitar (13-56) Then I practice - Swing Groove R 3 7 - Open strings strumming (Room 418) on my 1963 Gibson LG-1 (13-56)
Then I practice with Duo Sonic or Musicmaster, Stratocaster, ES335 etc.
Tomo
I use both acoustics and electrics too. Lots of practice on electric (Fender Thinline) for me as I dont even have to plug it in to grab quickly and try something. I so enjoy being able to be inspired in different ways and sometimes a guitar just seems right before picking it up. Like I know my Gibson Humminbird is going to be a warm sound while the Martin will articulate every nuance and be so beautiful, yet my electric guitar is so easy to play I feel like trying more things.
Tomo's one finger teaching has been very helpful to me and playing one finger on electric is much easier :).