Know Your Guitar - A Beginner's Guide

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Know Your Guitar

• A Beginner's Guide

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The Basic Knowledge of a Guitar That Every
Artist should Know
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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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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.