Know Your Guitar - A Beginner's Guide

Know Your Guitar A Beginner's Guide

The Basic Knowledge of a Guitar That Every Artist should Know

Simply Learning to Play the Guitar is Not Enough

Before one begin with the first lesson, it’s 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.

Know the Different Parts’ Names of the Guitar 1) Guitar neck parts Headstock Nut Truss rod Fretboard Neck Joint 2) Guitar body and soundhole Soundhole Guitar bridge studs Guitar saddle screws 3) Electric guitar 4) Pickup selector switch 5) Potentiometer and input jack

1.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.

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.

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, semihollow or solid body.

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. â—? 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. â—? Saddle screws : To adjust the action of the guitar you need to use guitar saddle screws to raise or lower the part of bridge.

Electric guitar: The body of an electric guitar has some different parts which you won’t 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.

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.

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.