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Broadly speaking the answer is yes, in the same way a bad pianist will be bad at playing any kind of keyboard instrument or a bad flautist will be equally bad at oboe. The skills are transferable over similar instruments. It is possible for faults to be hidden within certain similar instruments though. Acouistic guitar is played best by people who can pick out notes this is not always "required" with electric guitar and if all you want to do is mosh to chords then electric is your friend. I know many people who can sound aces on electric, make real head banging tunes but when you hand them an acoustic guitar and ask them to play a tune they're f*cked. It all reallydepends on what you're expectingand what you want to play but BROADLY speaking if you are bad at one kind of instrument you will be bad at the other instruments of that same type.
I play guitar, piano and brass, it has taken me years of practise to reach a level where I can confidently play in front ofother poeple and know they are going to say "that was nice", if you're talking about yourself in this question then I encourage you to not give up and keep practising, try other instruments, if acoustic is not your bag try electric and keep at it. On other thing... no matter how bad you think you are someone somewhere thinks you are brilliant :)
Yes. if you can't play one, you can't play the other. The only way to get better is to practice, but it's not really work if you enjoy what you are doing. electric will sort of amplify your mistakes, but acoustic is a bit tougher on beginning fingers holding the strings down. In either case, pick an easy to learn song that you like and know in your head, play it as often as you can while still having fun, and before you know it you will know 1 song, then just add from there. you'll be playing well in no time at all!
