Guitar Parts

GUITAR PARTS

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	1.  Headstock 2.  Nut 3.  Machine Heads 4.  Frets 5.  Truss Rod 6.  Inlays 7.  Neck 8.  Heel 9.  Body 10.  Pickups 11.  Electronics 12.  Bridge 13.  Pick guard 14.  Back 15.  Sound board 16.  Body sides 17.  Sound Hole 18.  Strings 19.  Saddle 20.  Fretboard

 Headstock 

Headstock located at the end of the guitar fretboard. Tuning keys placed in this area. Tuning keys use to change the tension of the strings. They use to adjust the tone pitch of strings. Traditionally there are 3 tuning keys in a side of the headstock and 3 keys placed on the opposite side of the headstock. However, some guitars do not have headstock. In this guitars tuning keys placed on the body or the bridge of the guitar.

 Nut

Nut located in the headstock. Nuts are made by using bone, plastic, brass, stainless steel or other medium hard materiel. Nuts use to joint the fret board and the headstock together. Nut use to another purpose, which to place in the correct position of the strings. Nut use the correct measurement to place the correct position. Nut has a groove to place the string. On the other hand nut use to prohibit the incorrect vibration of strings. That means when the nut made use correct width and height, that is the reason to prohibit the useless tone generating. Simply the nut is the main thing to keep accurate distance among a fret and a string. 

 Machine Heads

Machine heads means tuning keys. Tuning keys use to change the tension of strings.  That is changing the accurate pitch of strings is the main character of machine heads. Machine heads made by using bone, brass, stainless steel, plastic or other materials. The other duty of machine keys is holding strings. 

 Fret Board

Fret board also called Finger Board. Fret board made by using piece of woods. It embedded with metal frets from the beginning and to the end of fret board. Guitar frets divide in to 2 main categories according to  the design. On the classical guitars fretboard is flat. And on the acoustic and electric guitars fretboard is slightly curved crosswise. Guitar fretboard measured by the fretboard radius.  Every segment divided by using metal materials, called frets. Most modern guitars using 21 frets or 24 frets.  

  

Guitar Scales

Guitar Scales

Guitar scale means a guitar note sequence mentioned earlier post. I think you try it and practice them. Guitar scales are very important for to be a good guitar player. Now I give the link of two sites to build your guitar scale ability. In this site we can change main note and try the scale. Enjoy and practice this.



http://www.chordbook.com/guitarscales.php


And also try this site.


http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php

Guitar Chords Basic

Guitar chords mean playing other than one note. It means make tones other than one string. Simply guitar chord is a collection of notes that create according it's main guitar scale. These notes are created using the guitar scale notes.

For an example:

"C Major chord" creates using "C", "E", "G" notes.
"C Minor chord" creates using "C","Eb","G" notes.

Basically chords divided into two main categories. They are MAJOR CHORDS and MINOR CHORDS.

Major Chords:

Major chord is a main category of music. Usually major chords use to create a happy noise. It means when we feel happy any part of a music, that time we use major chords. Major chords create according the formula below.

Main note + 5th semitone + 8th semi tone

Example:

C Major chord = C + 5th semitone + 8th semitone

=C E G  


Try to create other chords using following formula.

Minor Chords:

Minor chord also a main category of music chords. Usually minor chords use to create a sad feeling. When we want to play a sad music part that time we use minor chords. Minor chords create according the formula below.

Main note + 4th semitone + 8th semi tone

 Example:

C Minor chord= C + 4th semitone + 8th semitone

=C Eb G

Try to create other minor chords using following formula.

I will post a correct table of major chords and minor chords in a later post. Try this and check if it is correct or wrong.

            
 

Guitar Picking

Guitar Picking is very important to play guitar well. Using correct guitar picking technique increase picking speed and picking hard. Picking hard useful to make tone quality. And speed picking is useful to play guitar well. Guitar pick means what we use to touch a guitar string. Generally it made by Nylon mixed plastic.

                    

Here is sample guitar picks. We can select a correct guitar pick using it thickness. Guitar pick thickness measure in millimeters(mm). Generally we use 60mm pick to play acoustic guitar. 

Correct guitar pick holding

Correct pick holding technique

  You can use correct pick holding as images below.



Correct guitar picking technique is picking up and down. Picking up and down increase picking speed. Using metronome is very important to increase correct picking and correct speed of guitar picking.

Tuning Guitar

Guitar Tuning means prepare the guitar to play. Generally guitar has 6 strings. From top of the guitar strings named as follow.

According to this chart you can see how the guitar is tuning. You must remember carefully E 6th is the low note and E 1st is the high note. Between this two strings tone frequencies are increasing ascending.

Few methods to tune a guitar 

Method 01:  You can use a electronic tuner to tune a guitar. When we touch the string the tone frequency detect by the tuner and show it. Then we can change the string tune using tuning key on the top of the guitar neck. This is a very easy method to tune a guitar correctly. A sample guitar tuner is following.

      

Method 02: You can tune a guitar using a keyboard. Touch a key you want and listen carefully. Then tune a string as you want. In this method you must have a correct and well identification ability a tone. 

Method 03: If you can recognize tone frequency correctly you can use this method. First tune E 1st string using any equipment. Then touch the 5 th fret in B 2 nd string. Then pick E 1st string and B 2nd string. Hear carefully both tone frequencies. Tune the B 2nd string using the tuning key to become same frequencies both strings. Then touch the 4 th fret of G 3rd string. Pick it with the open B 2nd string. Compare these two tones as below and tune G 3rd string. 

As below steps you can tune other strings. Tune 5 th fret of D 4th string to open G 3rd string. Tune 5 th fret of A 5th string to open D 4th string. Finally tune 5 th fret of E 6th string to open A 5th string.  

Guitar Scales

Not only the guitar but also music depend on music scales. Music Scales create from formulas. Mainly Scales divided in to two categories. They are MAJOR SCALES and MINOR SCALES. Every scale include 7 notes.

Major Scales create as below.

2 tones + 1 semitone + 3 tones + 1 semitone

Example:   If "C Major" scale creates as this.

C   D   E   F   G   A   B

In this "C" is the main tone. 

"C' + 2 tones = C D E. 

"C D E" + 1 semitone = C D E F

According to the above formula we can create the Major scale what we want. 

Minor Scales create as below.

1 tone + 1 semitone + 2 tone + 1 semitone + 2 tones

Example:  If "C Minor" scale creates as this.

C   D   Eb   F   G   Ab   Bb

In this "C" is the main tone.

"C" + 1 tone = C D

"C D" + 1 semitone = C D Eb

According to the above formula we can create the Minor scale what we want. 

Try this formula and if you have any problem comment this or mail to : sandikanuwanpriya@gmail.com. 

Guitar Notes

Guitar player must need to know these notes. Notes created by semitones.

C      C#      D      Eb      E       F      F#      G      Ab      A      Bb      B
1        2        3       4       5        6       7        8        9      10      11      12

Music create these 12 notes. Main notes are C,D,E,F,G,A,B. From the main note decrease a semitone called FLAT (Sign- b). Increasing a semitone from a main note called SHARP (Sign - # ). So we can understand how create 7 notes to 12 notes. Every song, solo, music parts create only these 12 notes. Guitar players must know these notes correctly. Then we can play well. 

Guitar Fretboard

Guitar Fretboard dividing with fret dividers. A fret means a semitone. Most guitars have 21 frets. Some guitars maybe change. The player must touch hardly on a fret he wants. The tone quality becomes with players touching strength and correctness. 

For example, commonly the first string open note is "E" (From the top of the fretboard). Then the next tone is "F". You can understand it correctly using this image of a fretboard. Players must remember the notes correctly. It's very important to play correctly.

Guitar players hand

Guitar player need both of hands. Usually left hand use to touch strings and the right hand use to picking.  Some players change their hands. Here is a picture your finger labled.

Both of left hand and right hand fingers nust be a very strong and can be control. Specially what hand you use to touch the string it must be controllable easily. Unless you cannot play the guitar well and you cannot control the correct note. 

We must careful to touch the correct string of the guitar. Usually guitar has 6 strings. If you hit the first string you must touch the first string on the other hand. So you must improve your playing skill by increasing practice time. Then you can be a clever guitar player. 

Common Parts of Guitar

General Parts of a guitar

1. Headstock
2. Nut
3. Machine heads (or peg heads, tuning keys, tuning machines, tuners)
4. Frets
5. Truss rod
6. Inlays
7. Neck
8. Heel (acoustic) Neck joint (electric)
9. Body
10. Pickups
11. Electrons
12. Bridge
13. Pick guard
14. Back
15. Soundboard (top)
16. Body sides (ribs)
17. Sound hole, with Rosette inlay
18. Strings
19. Saddle
20. Fretboard (or fingerboard)

Electric Guitars

Electric guitars, introduced in the 1930s, rely on an amplifier that can electronically manipulate tone. This guitar model has tone amplifier circuits. When we touch the string of a guitar ,that circuits improve the tone loudness. Then we can attach a tone modulator to the guitar and change the tone. Presently most musicians use an electric guitar because of the tone changeable a  ability. Guitars are recognized as a primary instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, jazz, mariachi, metal, reggae, rock, soul, and many forms of pop. 

About Guitar

 Guitar is a most important instrument in music. Guitar usually played with fingers or a pick. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with either nylon or steel strings.Some modern guitars are made of polycarbonate material. There are two guitar families.They are Acoustic and Electric.

Usually Acoustic guitars made by wood. In the first stages of guitars everyone play acoustic guitars. There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar: the classical guitar (nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the arch top guitar. The tone of an acoustic guitar is made from vibrating a string. Most commonly guitar use 6 strings and they are made from nylon. The classical guitar is often played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive finger picking technique.