Quick Buying Guide The Rough Guide to Buying an Instrument 1. Instruments as Gifts 2. Which Instrument Should I Buy? 3. Acoustic Guitars 4. Electric Guitars 5. More On Electric Guitars 6. Basses 7. Amplifiers

Quick Reference Buying Guide By Musical Genre * Entry level models available Want to learn more? Click here to read The Rough Guide to Buying an Instrument. Genre Popular Choices Rock 'n' Roll Beatles, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Eagles, etc. Strat style (single coil)* Tele style (single coil)* Les Paul style (humbucker)* ES-335 style (humbucker, hollowbody)* Hard Rock Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Guns 'n' Roses, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Creed, Iron Maiden, Spinal Tap, Slipknot, Korn, etc. Les Paul style (humbucker)* ES-335 style (humbucker, hollowbody)* Ibanez guitars (humbucker)* Jackson guitars (humbucker)* PRS guitars (humbucker) Hamer guitars (humbucker) Rockabilly and Surf Ventures, Shadows, Beach Boys, Elvis, Dick Dale, Stray Cats/Brian Setzer, Reverend Horton Heat Jazzmaster style (P-90) Jaguar style (single coil) Strat style (single coil)* Tele style (single coil)* Gretsch guitars (humbucker...but twangy, and P-90s) Rickenbacker guitars Alternative and Punk The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Television, The Ramones, Nirvana, No Doubt, Green Day, The Strokes, White Stripes, Sonic Youth Jazzmaster style (P-90) Jaguar style (single coil) Strat style (single coil)* Tele style (single coil)* Mustang style (single coil)* Les Paul Jr. style (P-90)* ES-335 style (humbucker, hollowbody)* Country, Folk and Bluegrass Chet Atkins, Roy Buchanan, Johnny Cash, Doc Watson, Alan Jackson, Hank Williams, Sr., James Burton, Glen Campbell, Ani DiFranco, Jewel, Melissa Etheridge Strat style (single coil)* Tele style (single coil)* ES-335 style (humbucker, hollowbody)* Any acoustic guitar Jazz and Blues Wes Montgomery, George Benson, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Django Rheinhart Strat style (single coil)* Tele style (single coil)* ES-335 style (humbucker, hollowbody)* ES-135 style (humbucker, hollowbody) Any hollowbody electric guitar Any acoustic guitar (for acoustic blues or jazz) ©2003-2004 Too Many Guitars.