Can you learn to play guitar on any kind of guitar?

Can you learn to play guitar on any kind of guitar?

Yes! But my vote would go to a classical guitar as the best for that, for sure.

Everything else being equal, nylon strings are easier on fingers that don’t have calluses yet. The wider neck means a student can see more clearly how each finger is to be positioned and that can help train the fretting hand for more accuracy. It is lightweight. Since it is a style of acoustic guitar, the student can practice quietly without having to plug in. I have heard that for the same cost you can get a better quality classical guitar than you can with acoustic or electric guitars. Traditionally there is no cutaway so the tone may be richer. Notes above the 12th fret can be managed with the hand in front of the guitar rather than with the thumb wrapped around the neck (which may or may not be a plus, now that I think of it). And you can shred on it if you want to. Here’s some funk on classical guitar.

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don’t learn something every day, you know what I think? It’s a day lost. Now, I don’t practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I’m doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear. B. B. King