Kids Electric Guitar

Tobias Karlsson, gigging with my kids (electric rock guitar)

Here's a snippet from a gig when one of my sons is drumming, my other kid who plays guitar also shows up at the end. The bassplayer is friend from Gothenburg (cool guy). The sound quality is a bit crappy and we've only played together for about a week :-)

Kids electric guitars - What guitar size to buy

Not so long ago, I was visiting a friend who has his own guitar shop, and I saw some really small electric guitars there. It didn’t occur to me at the time what the possible reason could be for any guitar company to make such small electric guitars.

Maybe I was just too blind to the idea that anyone could actually start to play electric guitar at an earlier age than I did, which was about 12 years old, so the idea behind these miniature electrics - Well… sort of miniature, didn’t quite dawn on me.

Small children also need electric guitars. If I remember back to the way my daughter of 1 year old reacted when she first saw a Fender Stratocaster, I guess I should’ve known. We had to forcibly remove her from the room where the guitar was.

Hell yeah, kids should definitely have their own electric guitars.

Here’s an article that just about sums it up as far as what to get a kid for an electric guitar.

Kids Electric Guitars - The 3/4 Kids Guitar and Other Options
By Andrew Gavin Webber

Choosing an electric guitar for your child.

The description usually assigned to kids electric guitars is “Short scale or 3/4 sized”.

But this description, while fairly accurate, isn’t quite the whole story. Some short scale electrics are longer than others, so it’s necessary to look at the specific scale length, and whether that’s right for your young one.

A three quarter sized scale length for a kids guitar can be anything from a 22.2 inch scale length to a 24 inch scale length. This may be different for acoustics, but having decided on an electric is definitely a plus in my book.

Scale length is defined as the distance from the bridge of the guitar to the nut, so a kids electric guitar with a short scale length means that the frets on the guitar are closer together, making it easier for small hands to reach across more frets.

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