Go with the Strat pack or whatever like Doug said. If the guitar is too big, or the kid is too much of a sally, you can go with the smaller scale guitar too
. A kid that young is probably not going to have the strength to play an acoustic guitar with anything thicker than fishing line. Though, I developed a much better ear for music with an acoustic guitar, so if it works out down the road think about getting him one of those too. They also have acoustic starter packs as well.Practice practice practice. And after he's done practicing, practice some more. And then again later on. It takes a while to get decent, and I'm still not very good at guitar at all. I had played bass for almost a year before I picked up a guitar, so I had some of the hand eye coordination down. The first song I learned on guitar was Pearl Jam's "Last Kiss." If he can get those 4 relatively simple chords down, along with maybe 3 or 4 other very basic chords, he will literally be able to play 100s of songs. Make sure to get a tuner. Good luck.
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