if your going to buy a guitar you have to by a fender stratocaster not a squier or strat they stink.the fender stratacaster is the best guitar because it has great pickup and you have to get a stratacaster with the four pick up bars . acsesories u have to get the fender strings elec stainlesssteal light weights in stead og the big fat strings plus it sounds better with the light weight strings and the fender stratocaster i bought was $400.00 and it is awsome .and i you are going to get an amp get a crate the one i got was $200.00 its good to it has the bass switch to make it sounf like bass and it has highand lowpitch and it has gain and level  and it has medium pitch and it has 2 level buttons and thats all.