I would just get whatever guitar you want to get really. A lot of guitars that are considered metal guitars like Ibanez, Schecter, and Jackson are very versatile and can be used for blues and jazz as well.
If rock and metal are your thing, then you most likely want to get a strat or a superstrat from one of the companies mentioned above.
I use my Ibanez RG's to play metal and jazz all the time.

If you want to go to music school that’s cool and you will learn music theory and lots of useful things but if you aren’t just dying to enroll then you can learn all the same things for free pretty easy online today. What I did when I started at 14 was found the best guitar teacher locally and took lessons for about 6 months total then I was off to the races. It comes down to doing the work at home and like someone mentioned, the muscle memory will come from that.


One of my biggest realizations when first starting that was my first big AH HA moment was realizing to keep playing through the cord changes. This will be hard to describe and maybe jumping ahead a little but I’m just trying to give u a pointer I wish someone had told me. Your left hand will be awkward at first and when you’re practicing strumming chords you’ll be stopping that strum in between every change to get your left hand on the correct strings... don’t stop strumming. It’ll sound bad at first but over time you’ll be able to hit those chords and not even thinking twice about it.


I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been on stage in the middle of a song I’ve played 1,000 times and completely went blank, only for my muscle memory to take control and never skip a beat.


Edit: I think you’re getting the bass guitar and 6 string a bit confused. Start with the 6 string. You learn that then that’s most of your bass covered already besides some techniques. You play rhythm and lead on the 6 and bass is mostly like you said ‘the back bone’ although really good bassist do wild chit and some bands such as TOOL’s Justin Chancellor use it in a very unique way. Those type of bass players are EXTREMELY hard to find in my area though lol. From my experience most bass players are lazy af unfortunately. I didn’t say all so please no bassist hate lol.

This

As said, there's not really any such thing as a rhythm or solo electric guitar. Some guitars are used more for soloing and tend to be better suited to it (e.g. Ibanez Jem types) and some tend to be used more for playing rhythm and are slightly harder to solo with (e.g. certain Strat types), but generally you can use any guitar for anything.

I'll second the suggestion to go for a strat TYPE guitar, but would rather suggest an entry level Yamaha Pacifica.

I'd also suggest just getting a teacher right off the bat. I'm good at guitar but I don't know how many years I wasted from lack of guidance.

lmfao same thing I thought

OP you should get a strat (or a PRS, or Les Paul) and an acoustic. Acoustic keeps you honest, you can't be messy and make nice sounds on them like a jacked up electric


SRV only sounds so good on his electric because he can also do this shiet at will:

I like Schecter for metal, but you should probably get a fender or gibson since you like boomer music