are acoustic guitars sort of the same as electric guitars but with different sound and looks?

The acoustic guitar and the electric guitar are fundamentally different instruments.

The acoustic guitar generates its sound by itself. The electric guitar, as the great guitarist Fred Frith recently commented, doesn’t really exist – or at least, it only makes its sound in conjunction with an amplifier, and obviously a cable connecting the two. The electric guitar is a whole system that demands an infrastructure (i.e. a power point). The acoustic guitar is self-contained.

These two very different ways of making music demand different mental and spiritual attitudes from the player, as well as quite different playing techniques.

There is a widespread delusion that you need to learn the acoustic guitar before you learn the electric. Unless you want to be able to play acoustically, this is simply not true – the effort of learning acoustic will be largely wasted. Electric guitar is in some ways much easier than acoustic and in some other ways, far harder. What is certain is that they are very different, and the best players recognise the difference.

they are the same just minon things the the acoustic has a sound hole and eletric does not if you can play electice you can play acoustic vis versa and all notes and stuff are the same lol

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Yes, anyone that can play one, can also play the other. Notes, chords, tuning, everything is the same. The electric is just a modernized version of the guitar, updated, electrified, and made easier to play. (the acoustic design predates electricity)

lexo80′s answer was spiritually enlightening, it was also misleading and didn’t answer the question. It was beautifully written though. Kindly disregard it as B.S.

An acoustic guitar is hollow bodied… an electric guitar, in it’s simplest form, is little more than a 2×4 piece of wood with strings on it… in fact… the very FIRST electric guitar that Les Paul built was a 4×4 piece of timber with strings on it.

Yes the notes are all the same….the only difference is is that one is electrifyed and the other is not….some acoustics are played finger style (using your right hand fingers instead of a pick)….and most electric are played with a pick. And of course there is the sound…..electric is a lot different in sound then the acoustic…..which I’m sure that your aware of !!!!!! But if you can play acoustic you’ll be able to play electric !!!!!!!!!!

Acoustic and Electric are the same , play the same , have the same chords, same notes etc…
The difference is that electric is much easier to play and less hard on the fingernails.

They are the same instrument. What works on the acoustic guitar will work on the electric guitar. However, they do have some differences. Electric guitars tend to be heavier, since they’re usually made from a solid piece of wood. Acoustic guitars have soundholes, which is how acoustic guitars make their sound. Electric guitars need amplifiers in order to make sound. There is one difference I’ve noticed between them. Techniques like hammer-ons, pull offs, and touch picking can be quite difficult, with touch picking being close to impossible to do on acoustic guitars, while they’re relatively simple to do on electric guitars. Still, when it comes to notes and songs, what you play on an acoustic guitar will sound the same on an electric, and vice versa.