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Title: Know Your Guitar - A Beginner's Guide


1
Know Your Guitar
  • A Beginner's Guide

2
The Basic Knowledge of a Guitar That Every
Artist should Know
3
Simply Learning to Play the Guitar is Not Enough
  • Before one begin with the first lesson, its
    vital to know about the guitar. If one has
    purchased a Gibson, Jackson, ESP, PRS or any
    other guitar, learning the parts of guitar is
    important. Gibson guitars are quite popular and
    the parts for gibson guitars or other guitars is
    almost the same.

4
Know the Different Parts Names of the Guitar
  • Guitar neck parts
  • HeadstockNutTruss rodFretboardNeck Joint
  • Guitar body and soundholeSoundholeGuitar bridge
    studsGuitar saddle screws
  • Electric guitar
  • Pickup selector switch
  • Potentiometer and input jack

5
Guitar Neck Parts
  • The narrow section of guitar which uses to hold
    to press down the strings is the guitar neck. The
    parts of a guitar neck are headstock, truss rod,
    frets, fretboard, tuners.

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Parts of a Guitar Neck
  • Headstock Headstock is the first section of the
    guitar which is a rectangular piece on the top
    and holds the tuning pegs and tuners.
  • Nut The white strip that is closest to the
    headstock, like a bow tie s known as the nut. It
    has vertical grooves and it helps to place the
    strings in a proper position.
  • Truss rod Truss rod is a steel bar that runs
    inside the neck and below the fingerboard. To
    adjust the tension it will have a nut at one or
    both ends.
  • Tuning pegs By using the tuning pegs or guitar
    tuner buttons a guitar tuned. It helps to loosen
    and tighten the wire as per the required pitch.
  • Fretboard Fretboard uses to press the notes and
    create chords or music notes it is also called
    fingerboard. The raised metal wires along the
    fretboard are fret wires. Most common materials
    used for making the fretboard are maple and
    rosewood.
  • Neck Joint Neck joint is the place that connects
    the body to the neck either through a bolt with
    usually three to 4 screws or it will set in the
    neck without the help of screws. It depends on
    how the guitar is constructed.

7
Guitar Body and Soundhole
  • The big curvy part of a guitar is the body which
    has a hole in the middle known as the soundhole.
    Acoustic guitars have a hollow body whereas
    electric guitars have a hollow, semi- hollow or
    solid body.

8
Soundhole
  • Soundhole is useful to amplify the sound of the
    guitar strings. To get a clear sound one must
    strum on the soundhole as it works like a speaker
    of the guitar.

Body
  • The guitar parts saddle, bridge and bridge pins
    on the body that hold the wires in their
    appropriate places.
  • Bridge Bridge of the guitar is known as the
    final destination for the strings. Guitarists
    make use of stylish guitar bridge studs and these
    are replaced at times to adjust the action of the
    guitar.
  • Saddle screws To adjust the action of the
    guitar you need to use guitar saddle screws to
    raise or lower the part of bridge.

9
Electric guitar
  • The body of an electric guitar has some different
    parts which you wont find on an acoustic, like,
    pickups, input jack, pickup selector switch,
    potentiometer. The magnets at the core as well
    as the coils of wire that are useful to disturb
    the magnetic field in the pick up when there is a
    string vibration. It is transferred to the
    amplifier as an electrical signal.

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Acoustic Guitars
Sound Hole Pickups Magnetic Pickups
  • Pickup selector switch
  • Electric guitars have more than one pickup
    because at different positions strings have a
    different tone and various pickups helps in
    producing various tones.

Potentiometer and input jack Potentiometer helps
to control the tone and volume of the guitar
whereas input jack is the place to plug in your
keyboard.
11
Beginning Step of the Beginners
Knowledge about the Guitar Spare Parts
  • These are some of the guitar spare parts
    explained in brief which will help you know your
    guitar well. The functions of most of these parts
    are explained above, so you gain a better
    understanding of acoustic and electric guitars.
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