Beginner Electric Guitar
Electric guitars are easier to play than acoustic guitars because of their lighter gauge strings and lower playing action.
Less hand strenght is required to fret with the strings, that makes it much easier for beginners with uncallouse fingers.

Electric guitars are divided into several main categories.

The most common type of electric guitars are the solid body electric guitars.
These are usually the choice instrument for beginner electric guitarists and the rock guitarists.
The solid body guitars create no resonance in the body frame of the guitar, and they rely mainly on amplification of the pickups to carry their sound.

Then there are hollow body electric guitars, also known as acoustic-electric or semi-acoustic guitars.
These type of electric guitars are divided into arch top electric guitars and thin hollow electric guitars.
These hybrid guitars use the natural amplification and pickups from the hollowness of their body that create a warm natural sound.

Acoustic-electric guitars have pickups as an alternative to amplifying the sound with a microphones.

Signals from the electric guitars transform the pickups that alter the vibration of metal strings and through the processors and pedals, thus creating a variety of uique tones and tonal effects. These unique sounds generated by electric guitars creates a very popular followings amongst guitar players.

The transformations of the electrical signal occur prior to the sound reaching the amplifier. There are also many processors that can be used after the sound moves through the amplifier, such as distortion or equalization.

These characteristics of the electric guitar make it extremely versatile, and it can be used in many different styles of music. Rock, jazz, pop, country, and blues musicians are known to have use electric guitars. Many R&B, hip-hop, electronic and other types of musicians have also adopted the electric guitar as a vital part of their sound due to its versatility.

Due to its amazing versatility, it’s no wonder the electric guitar is the instrument that helped create the sound of some of the greatest musicians and bands in history. The electric guitar has created more legends than any other instrument.

The unique nature of the electric guitar sound and the variety of effects that can be created has given players the freedom to experiment with the many sounds that can be created. Musicians can use their imagination and creativity to introduce new effects and sounds from the electric guitar.

Some of the greatest guitar players of all-time that used an electric guitar to form their signature tune: Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend of The Who, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Eddie Van Halen, Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead, Slash of Guns ‘N’ Roses, Frank Zappa, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani.

Since the early 60’s musicians have mastered the electric guitar and the effect that are produced through signal processors. Popular effects include flanging, stereo chorus, delay, reverb, fuzz, delay, wah-wah, compression/sustain, distortion, phase shift.

Legendary musician’s names go hand-in-hand with some of the most well known guitar brands. Many of the brands have helped to create a culture around their names.

Many popular brand names are:
Yamaha, Ibanez,Gordon Smith, Jackson, Squier, Fender, Washburn, Dean, and Gibson, just to name a few.

Are you considering buying a beginner electric guitar?

Finding the best beginner electric guitar has a lot to do with personal taste, not to mention how much you can afford. There are items like pickups, strap locks, and custom graphics etc, to name a few, that you have to look into.

Before you begin the actual process of learning how to play electric guitar, you must first learn to know the parts of the electric guitar .

Check out the diagram below:

Starting with the headstock right at the top, the part of the electirc guitar that is attached to the slimmer neck of the instrument.

Then there are the tuners. Basically the tuners are used to tune the electric guitar, or to adjust the pitch of the strings.

Next part of the electric guitar will be the nut. This is between the headstock and the neck of the guitar.

This is sometimes made of bone or plastic and it have six small grooves to guide the strings up to the tuners. then focus will be placed on the next part, the neck of the guitar. This is where you place your fingers a lot and holding at different positions to create different tunes.
The frets are strips of metal running along the surface of the guitar’s neck. Guitarists also refer to the space between two strips of metal as a fret.

Further down you the neck we comes to the body of the guitar.

On the body of your electric guitar, you will find microphones like pickups. The pickups capture the sound of the electric guitar so they can be amplified.

You will also find a pickup switch located on the body of the guitar which is used to select different pickups for different tones and sounds.

Next we come to the bridge of your electric guitar. It is a piece of hardware attached to the body of the guitar. The strings run from the tuning pegs to the bridge.

The tremolo or Whammy Bar, is a bar connected to the bridge of the electric guitar. By moving the tremolo bar up or down, you can move the bridge, thus changing the pitch.

You will find volume and tone control knobs on the body, that is used to adjust electric guitar tone and volume.

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