How to Taking Care Of Your Guitar?

How to taking care of a guitar? A guitar can be easily damaged by accident. Put a guitar in an a safe place when you are not playing it. Your guitar more safe in it’s case. Good idea not to lean a guitar against a wall because it could easily fall over. Avoid places where there could be an extreme temperature or humidity. Extreme heat or dryness may cause cracking or splitting, dampness and extreme cold may make the glues soften.

Electric Guitar Amplifier

If you're playing an electric guitar, you'll need to amplify the instrument, so you and others can hear you play. A guitar amp is important kit for playing an electric guitar. An amplifier is used to amplify an instrument. An electric guitar amp is designed to make the signal of an electric guitar louder. So that it will produce sound through a loudspeaker. An electric guitar amplifier modify the guitar's sound by changing certain frequencies and adding electronic effects.

Amplifiers consist of circuit stages which have responsibilities in the modification of the input signal. The power amplifier or output stage produces a high current signal to drive a speaker to produce sound. One or more preamplifier stages precede the power amplifier stage. The preamplifier is a voltage amplifier that amplifies the guitar signal to a level that can drive the power stage. The tone stages may also have electronic effects.

Tune Electric Guitar with Electric Guitar Tuner

Common method for tuning electric guitars is by your hand and your ear. You can tune your electric guitar faster with electric guitar tuner. Electric guitar tuner is a device to detect and display the pitch of notes played on electric guitar. Tuner indicate approximately whether the pitch of the note played is lower, higher, or approximately equal to the desired pitch. 

More complex and expensive tuners indicate more precisely the difference between offered note and desired pitch. So if you want to tune your electric guitar faster and accurate than tuning guitar by your ear, you can use an electric guitar tuner.

Electric Guitar Strap

A guitar strap is a strip with a leather or synthetic leather piece on each end to hold a guitar by the shoulders. A guitar strap is made at an adjustable length to suit guitarist most comfortable position. Electric guitars have varying accommodations for attaching a strap.

The most common are strap buttons, also called strap pins, which are flanged steel posts anchored to the guitar with screws. Two strap buttons come pre-attached to virtually all electric guitars, and many steel-string acoustic guitars. Strap buttons are sometimes replaced with "strap locks" which connect the guitar to the strap more securely.

The lower strap button is usually located at the bottom or bridge end of the body. The upper strap button is usually located near or at the top or neck end of the body : on the upper body curve, at the tip of the upper "horn" (on a double cutaway), or at the neck joint (heel).

Easy Step How to Tune a Guitar with Your Hand

The best way to sound good is to keep your guitar in tune. Tuning the guitar is vital. Common method for tuning both electric and acoustic guitars – and the one you can use when no other instrument or guitar tuner is by your hand.

There are six strings on a guitar, named after the notes they are tuned to. From bass to treble (thick to thin) they are : E, A, D , G , B and another E. They are also numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, from thin to thick. You can see the open strings of a guitar from the thickest to thinest are as follows : 

• E – the thickest or lowest sounding string is known as the 6th string
• A – is the 5th
• D – is the 4th
• G – is the 3rd
• B – is the 2nd
• E – the thinest or highest is the 1st

Easy step how to tune your guitar :

Step 1 : The E String

Tune the bottom E, as accurately as you can. Try to get it as accurate as possible, what really counts when you are playing is that the guitar is in tune with itself and any other instruments you might be playing with.

Step 2 : The A String

Place the first finger of your left hand just behind the fifth fret on the bottom E string. That’s an A note. Keep your finger on that fret. Now pick the fifth and six strings in turn, gently adjusting the fifth string tuning peg until the two notes are the same.

Step 3 : The D String

Place the first finger of your left hand just behind the fifth fret on the A string. That’s a D note. Tune the 4th string (the D note) to that.

Step 4 : The G String

Place the first finger of your left hand just behind the fifth fret on the D string. That’s a G note. Tune your G string to that note.

Step 5 : The B String

Place the first finger of your left hand just behind the forth fret (note the B string is the only one that comes from a different position the forth fret, the rest are from the 5th fret).

Step 6 : Tuning the E String

Place the first finger of your left hand just behind the fifth fret on the B string. That’s a E note.

Electric Guitar Solid Body Common Woods

Electric guitar are the most popular solid body instrument. A solid-body instrument is a string instrument built without sound box. Relying on an electric pickup system to directly receive the vibrations of the strings.

Most electric guitar bodies construction are made of wood, and include a plastic pick guard. The wood is rarely one solid piece. Most bodies are made of two pieces of wood. The most common woods used for electric guitar body construction include maple, rosewood, ash, poplar, alder, korina, spruce, rosewood, ebony and mahogany.

Some woods are used more in constructing certain solid bodies more than others. For instance, mahogany, maple, alder, spruce, and rosewood are commonly used in constructing the parts of electric guitars and bass guitars.

Solid body instruments have some of the same features as acoustic string instruments. Like a typical string instrument they have a tuner and a bridge and a fingerboard (or fretboard). Ebony, rosewood and maple are commonly used to make the fingerboard.

Guide to Electric Guitar Strings

Electric guitar strings are the metal that are strum away to make the sound. There are many different types of strings, made of different materials for diverse purposes. The strings are made either as solid threads of  fabric (metal) or as threads with an additional wire wound tightly around it to get the necessary thickness. Plain strings are the smallest strings on a guitar, which are smooth and without windings.

While restringing the guitar, either one will stab in the end of the left hand index finger of guitarists instantly. The visible difference in the E and B strings of an acoustic and electric set is the gauge, size of the string. A large amount of electric sets employ a plain string for the G string while acoustic sets entail a wound string. A detailed comparison of various guitar models often helps as a guide to guitar strings.

The string, which is used to wound strings, differs much. As a guide to guitar strings, electric guitar strings create their signal through the use of magnetism and are a bit different to acoustic strings, as they do not need to be acoustically loud.