Does being a good acoustic guitar player automatically make you a good electric guitar player? That is the question, and the answer can vary depending on who you ask. According to blues extraordinaire Eric Bibb, being proficient in one doesn’t necessarily translate to the other. As he puts it, they’re not exactly the same species. “I’m really not an electric guitar player,” he admits in a new interview with Guitarist. “I find that the electric guitar is almost a separate species, you know?