Beginner Guitar
Beginner Guitar?
Just turned 15 years old and I really want to start playing guitar. I want to play mainly different types of heavy metal so I’m going to go with an electric guitar obviously. Need recommendations on a good beginner guitar around $350 or under. Any recommendations on an amp are also appreciated. Thanks 
For metal you’ll probably want something with a humbucker (2-coil) pickup in the bridge position. In case you don’t know what that means, the bridge is the metal part that anchors the strings to the body. The pickups are the things in the body under the strings that pick up the vibrations and turn them into electric sound signals. The wide, rectangular humbucker pickups (sometimes they have a rectangular cover; sometimes you can see the two coils side-by-side) give a thicker, chunkier sound. Single coil pickups look like narrow strips and they give a twangy sound.
Squier is a good brand in your price range but their cheapest models have single coil pickups. You can get Squiers with humbucker pickups but they don’t come in the guitar/amp package deals. Epiphone makes low-price guitar/amp packages and theirs have humbucker pickups.
I’d suggest an Epiphone guitar with a Squier amp. The Squier amp will give you a very wide range of tone and the Epiphone guitar will give you that chunky metal attack without having to pay for a premium model.
Good luck!
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