lesson 1

 

The first thing needed to know before you play guitar is all the guitar parts. As you can see in the picture, the head is at the very top. Then comes the tuning peg which you use to tune the guitar. Until you know how to tune a guitar, you will need to buy a tuner. To use the tuner, you turn it on and pick a string. Then you turn the peg of that string clock wise, until the light on the tuner turns green. Do this to every string. After the tuning peg, is the nut. The nut is just the white piece at under the tuning pegs that stops the strings from vibrating beyond the neck. Then, there is the fingerboard, also called the neck. On the fingerboard, there is the strings which is what you place your fingers on to play a chord. After that is the frets. Those are the metal strips that run across the fingerboard. You place your fingers behind them and strum at the sound hole which produces a note. They should be kept smooth to keep the strings from buzzing. Then the sound hole is where the sound comes out from and where you lose your guitar pic if your not careful. You strum the strings over the hole and that produces the sound. If you do lose your guitar pic, just tilt you guitar so the sound hole is facing down the shake it up and down at an angle so the pic will slip out. After that is the rib which is just a design in the guitar where the guitar body curves. The body is the biggest part of the guitar. Inside is where the sound bounces around and then comes out the sound hole. It is designed to amplify the sound of the guitar. Finally, the bridge, where the strings are attached to the guitar's body. Vibration is transferred through the bridge and vibrates to produce the tone. All of these parts are very important to know to play guitar.