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Originally Posted by kcfanintitanhell
One of the downsides of starting on an electric as opposed to a nylon-string acoustic is if you've never played guitar before, the strings on an electric are going to be quite a bit harder on your fingers-they will get quite sore.
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I would disagree. Unless the electric is setup like SRV or ACDC/Led Zep, the electric strings will be significantly smaller in gauge and require much less pressure to fret the note.
My Telecaster is set up with .48-.12 (low to high);even with low action in relation to the fret board it stilll requires more pressure to fret than my Kramer which is set up .46-.09.
As many have said, it is possible to learn the songs on electric etc; but it will not sound anywhere near the same; particularly on a solid wood electric (non-hollow body). the downside is, once you learn a given catalogue of acoustic songs, the transition to begin playing them on an acoustic itself will not be as smooth as going from acoustic to electric.
Unless you plan on bending a string up a full-step on the electric strings, the pressure itself from simply fretting shouldn't kill your finger tips.
my $.02.