Guitar Electronics for Musicians (Guitar Reference)

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Also called tuning keys or tuners, these are mounted on the headstock and used to tune your guitar. A switch that turns a guitar's pickups on and off in different combinations. Pickups selector switches are usually 3-position, as on the Les Paul above, or 5-position as on a Fender Stratocaster. Intended to protect the wooden top of a guitar from pick scratches, these are found on both electric and acoustic guitars.

Most acoustic guitars have pickguards, but many electric guitars do not. On guitars such as Stratocasters the pickguard makes up a large and integral section of the top of the guitar. The saddle, usually mounted atop the bridge, can be adjusted to raise or lower the string height. On an acoustic guitar the saddle is typically a single piece you may or may not be able to adjust yourself, depending on design.


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Electric guitars bridges usually have multiple saddles that can be adjusted with a screwdriver or Allen wrench. The soundboard is the top of an acoustic guitar. The bridge transfers the vibrations from plucking a string to the soundboard, which in turn resonates. The construction and tonewoods used for the top of the guitar have a big influence on sound, tone and projection.

The hollow cavity inside an acoustic guitar. The vibration from the soundboard is amplified here. The bigger the guitar body, the bigger the sound. It's the hole in your acoustic guitar. All of that vibrating, from the strings to the soundboard to the sound chamber causes pressure within the sound chamber itself.

A sound hole, or f-hole in the case of some instruments, serves to help equalize the pressure within the guitar and without. Used to hold the strings in place at the bridge on acoustic guitars. There is one pin for each string, and they are typically small, plastic pieces which need to be removed in order to change the strings.

An acoustic guitar can be played without plugging it in, but you need an amp for an electric guitar. Quite simply, they are just like acoustic guitars, with the addition of electronics so you can also plug them into an amp. You can play an acoustic-electric guitar by itself, just like an acoustic guitar, or you can plug it into an amplification source. The word action describes the physical relationship between the guitar strings and fretboard.

Simply the cord you use to connect your guitar to your amp. However, there are many other uses for guitar cables, such as connecting effects pedals, or connecting an amp to a speaker cabinet. Many guitar amplifiers feature a power section and speaker in one box, as opposed to a separate amplifier and speaker cabinet. These all-in-one units are referred to as combo amps. Guitar effects change the sound of the instrument.

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They are notably applied to electric guitar, but can be used on acoustic guitar as well. Other popular effects include chorus, phaser, reverb, wah and delay. Effects can come in the form of individual analog pedals or stomp boxes , multi-effect digital processors or onboard the amp. When we use the term hollow-body guitar we are usually referring to an electric guitar with a hollow body, similar in build to an acoustic guitar. This is the connection port where you plug in a guitar cable. There are input jacks, where you are sending a signal into something, such as an amplifier.

There are output jacks, such as where you attach the cable to your guitar and send the signal out to the amplifier. A modeling amp is a kind of amplifier that uses digital technology to provide an onboard palette of many different sounds, usually intended to replicate other amps and effects. Where the typical guitar amp is only capable of a handful of tones, some modeling amps can literally give you thousands of combinations of sounds. This is just another word for the guitar pick, that piece of plastic you use to pluck the strings.

One solid piece of advice for beginners is to make sure they get a professional setup for their first guitar, and then take it in for a setup at regular intervals. All this means is that a technician is going to work on it to make sure everything is functioning correctly, and make adjustments so the neck, bridge and strings are all in proper alignment.

Once you become more experienced you can do this work yourself. Sort of hollow and sort of not, semi-hollow guitars are electric instruments with cavities inside to give them some of the properties of a hollow-body electric but less prone to feedback. The most common type of electric guitar, solid bodies, as the name suggests, are built with a solid piece of wood, or several pieces glued together into one piece.

These are amplifiers made with transistor technology rather than tube. At one point most electronic devices, including televisions and radios, relied on tubes. With the advent of the transistor most electronics moved away from tubes, but guitar amps are one area where there is still a debate between tube and transistor technology.

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This refers to an amplifier and a one or more speaker cabinets. Usually the amp is "stacked" on top of the speaker cabinets. An amplifier on top of two speaker cabinets, each with four inch speakers, is a "full stack". An amp atop a single 4x12 cabinet is a "half stack". These are two common examples, but any combination of amp and speaker cabinet can form a stack.

Simply put, string gauge refers to the thickness of the guitar strings.

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Players often refer to a set of strings by the lightest string. Any wood used in the construction of a guitar can be referred to as a tonewood. But, as you might expect, since guitars are made of all kinds of stuff there is a certain kind of reverence for some tonewoods, and disdain for others. Common tonewoods include maple, rosewood, mahogany, alder and spruce. Guitar companies combine them in ways intended to create a pleasing sound. In terms of hardware, these are all words for the same thing. Usually mounted on the bridge, or incorporated into the bridge itself, this device serves to tighten or slacken the strings, thus changing their pitch.

This is a metal rod embedded in the guitar neck. It can be adjusted at one end or the other in order to change the curve of the neck. This adjustment helps with string action and may even improve the sound of the guitar. Some amps use vacuum tubes, also called valves, in their design. While it is an outdated technology, some musicians believe they sound better.

A chord is defined as three or more notes played simultaneously. Practically speaking, they are those crazy shapes you must learn to contort your hand into when you are first learning to play. As with the term lead guitar, this refers to the role of the guitar in a band or piece of music.

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Rhythm guitarists play more chords than solos, helping the bass and drums to bolster the rhythm section of the song. A guitar player may specialize in lead or rhythm, but many players do both. In bands with only one guitar player, the guitarist must do both. A scale is a sequence of notes, arranged in a specific order. Most scales have eight notes seven notes plus an octave , but not all.

1. Guitar Anatomy and Parts of the Guitar

A mode is type of scale. Most guitar players use this tuning or some form of it, and most theory and song books are written with the assumption that your guitar is in standard tuning.


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    5. Tab consists of six lines, one for each guitar string. A number on the line indicates which fret you play on that string. Thanks to tab, beginners, and even advanced guitar players, can learn complex pieces without ever having to understand how to read music.