Know Your Acoustic Guitar Parts And Functions

Before we further learn the guitar, it is good to know in advance if the guitar parts and their functions. Because it will be very helpful when we read the tutorial about tips / tricks guitar uses terms / names of the parts of the guitar, so if we already know and understand the guitar parts and their functions would be easy and quick to understand.

But in this post, special parts acoustic guitar. For electric guitar / electric I'll share another time.


#Know Acoustic Guitar Parts And Functions

Know Acoustic Guitar Parts And Functions

Explanation

1. Head (Headstock)

Head of acoustic guitar are at the top of the guitar. This guitar head wood raw material which at its parts are Tunner and Nut. At the head of the guitar is also usually present brand or brands.

2. Nut

Nut is a little pads that are used to keep all six strings of the guitar in order to sound out sounding tinny. In addition nut usually white.

3. Tunner

Tunner function to tune the guitar.

4. Fret

Generally, on acoustic guitar fret of 19 units. Fret function to set the tone of the strings.

5. Neck (Neck)

Neck of the guitar is a left hand we hold the guitar. Do not buy a guitar that his neck arched neck of good guitar is perfectly straight.

6. Liaison

Liaison is a solid wood that is used to connect between the neck (neck) the guitar body (body).

7. Body (Body)

The shape of the guitar body is very diverse, and depend on the tastes of the guitar maker.

8. Bridge

Bridge function to associate the guitar strings on the guitar body.

9. Soundboard

Soundboard is a resonance box sound on the guitar. Soundboard is shaped like a tube in which there is a room that serves to meresonansikan sound of guitar strings, so the sound of the strings will be louder and louder.

10. Sound Hole

Earpiece is used as the access part of the soundboard. Vibration of a guitar string will emerge through this hole before the sound of the guitar soundboard diresonansikan by.

11. The string (String)

Type string guitar strings are very diverse because each has characteristics different sounds. Number of acoustic guitar strings there are 6 pieces, and each - each string also has a different tone that is E, A, D, G, B, E '(Standard Tuning).

12. Saddle

Saddle is bantalah contained on the guitar bridge. Functions the same saddle nut with a function which is to sound tinny guitar strings terdengan.

13. Fingerboard / fretboard

Fingerboard is the part where we put our fingers to press the strings on a particular fret. Finger board located on the front of the neck (Neck).

The Importance Of Playing Guitar Technique Fingering

Many consider the fingering technique or finger gymnastics is only done as a warm up / practice before playing the guitar, and thought fingering technique is not important.

According to my own fingering technique is important, because if you do this technique routine, indirectly, the finger will be flexible by itself.
Here are some functions fingering techniques:

Train flexibility so as not to stiff fingers when playing the guitar.
Train accuracy and precision in playing the guitar.
This technique is very important, because if have mastered this technique, it will help in training techniques - other techniques such as picking, sweeping, bending, string skipping, and others.

Earlier, what was fingering technique?
Fingering is a technique that aims to do finger - the finger is not rigid. Usually done for 15 minutes to 1 hour, even more.

How can I do this technique?
Actually, there are a wide variety of fingering techniques. But I will share only the basic technique.
Here's how to do the fingering techniques:

Importance Fingering Techniques For Guitar Playing

E|-----------------------------------------1-2-3-4----|
B|---------------------------------1-2-3-4------------|
G|-------------------------1-2-3-4--------------------|
D|-----------------1-2-3-4----------------------------|
A|---------1-2-3-4------------------------------------|
E|-1-2-3-4--------------------------------------------|

Place the first finger / index on strings fret number 6 / column 1,
2 finger / middle at number 6 fret second string,
Jari 3 / sweet at number 6 fret third string,
4 finger / pinkie on number 6 fret 4 string.
Selanjut to string a number of 5 to 1.
Do it slowly, and then do with a faster tempo.

Definition of Symbols On Guitar tablature

On the guitar, tablature, or often called tab is a graphical notation system that represent strings and guitar fret of stem / neck of a guitar.

There are several symbols contained in tablature / guitar tab.
The following symbols on the guitar tablature and its understanding:

1. Hammer On

In tablature / guitar tab, hammer on is denoted by the letter 'h', in tablature between fret learned and that in the hammer (eg 5H6).

2. Pull Off

In tablature / guitar tabs, pull off is denoted by the letter 'p', (eg 7p5)
However, often symbolized by a '^', can be used to pull off (example 7 ^ 5) and hammer on (example 5 ^ 6).

3. Bend

In tablature / guitar tab, bend denoted by the letter 'b' (ie 7B9).
Bend can also be written [7b (9)], or b omitted [7 (9)]

4. Release

In tablature / guitar tab, release denoted by the letter 'r', (example 9r7).
Release the reverse / pair of bend, (example 7b9r7).

5. Slide

Slide has two kinds:

#Slide Up (Ascending Slide) In tablature / guitar tab, slide up denoted by '/', (example 5/7).

#Slide Down (Descending Slide) In tablature / guitar tab, slide down denoted by '\', (eg 7 \ 5).

Can also be incorporated between slides up and down (eg 5/7 \ 5)
Sometimes slide symbolized by the letter 's'.

6. Harmonic

In tablature / guitar tab, harmonic denoted by '<>'.

7. Tapping

In tablature / guitar tab, tapping denoted by the letter 't',
tapping often paired with pull off and hammer on
(Example 2h5t12p5p2).

8. Vibrato

In tablature use of vibrato can be denoted in several ways, the symbol '~', symbol '~ ~ ~ ~', can also use the letter 'v'.

9. Mute

In tablature / guitar tabs, mute denoted by the letter 'x'.


Thank you for reading Understanding Symbols On Guitar tablature.

Train Order Not Stiff Fingers While Playing Guitar

The first material when learning to play guitar is to train your fingers to not be rigid while playing the guitar.
Train your fingers to not be rigid while playing the guitar is easy if done regularly.


If done regularly, naturally we will limp fingers and cunning while playing the guitar.

Then, how to train your fingers to not be rigid while playing the guitar?

Here I have compiled some tips so stiff fingers when playing the guitar:

1. Warming

Before playing the guitar, it would be nice if warming.
Heating can be done by:

Spread apart fingers with the help of the other fingers.
Massage the palm of the hand to the fingertips.
Stretch in some knuckle dragging fingers one by one.

Do this before you play the guitar so that the finger is not rigid.

2. Learning Variation Chord

The purpose of this method is to help recognize more finger chord shapes that will indirectly make the finger used to move from simple to complex forms though.

3. Binding Finger With Rubber

This way I got from my friend, he said when the rubber binder dilapas then the finger will be limp.
I myself rarely doing it this way, because it makes the finger will ache.

4. Fingering Techniques

Fingering or unusual in said finger gymnastics is the most basic thing to do when learning to play the guitar.
This method serves to develop flexibility and speed of the finger.

5. Expand Training

multiply exercise, routinely above manner.
I myself usually done every morning for about 15 minutes to 30 minutes.
Again, do routinely and regularly. Because by itself will be flexible and cunning fingers when playing the guitar.


Those are some tips about Jari For Not Exercising rigid Currently Playing Guitar.

Semi Acoustic Guitars History

In the 1930s guitar players and manufacturers were attempting to increase the overall volume of the guitar, which had a hard time competing with other instruments, specifically in large orchestras and jazz bands, due to its lack of volume. This created a series of experiments that focused on creating a guitar that could be amplified through electric currents and out through a speaker. In 1936, Gibson attempted to make their first production line of electric guitars. These guitars, known as ES-150's (Electric Spanish Series) were the first manufactured semi-acoustic guitars. They were based on a standard production arctop and had f holes on the face of the guitar which functioned as a soundbox. This model was used to resemble the traditional jazz box guitars that were popular at the time. The soundbox on the guitar allowed a limited amount of sound waves to emit from the hollow body of the guitar, which was customary of all full acoustic models before this guitar. The purpose of these guitars, however, was to be able to be amplified from electric sound waves. This was made possible by the Charlie Christian pickup, a magnetic single-coil pickup, which allowed the sound of the guitar to be amplified through electric currents.The clear sound produced by the pickups made the ES series immediately popular with jazz musicians. The first semi-acoustic guitars are often thought of as an evolutionary step in the progression from acoustic guitars to full electric models. However, the ES-150 was made several years after the first solid body electric guitar, which was made by Rickenbacker. The ES series was merely an experiment by the Gibson company in order to test out the potential success of electric guitars. This experiment proved to be a successful financial venture and is often referred to as the first successful electric guitar. The ES-150 was proceeded by the ES-250, a year later and would foreshadow a long line of semi acoustics for the Gibson company.

Type Electric Guitar History

For those not familiar with Musical Instruments This is the electric guitar, the following text is intended to help you identify the type of guitar seen from parts such as the type of body (solid, hollow, semi-hollow), scale length, pick-ups to the type of tremolo installed. By looking at these parts, we can recognize the character of the guitar, so it will be easier to determine the guitar as what we want and we need for our game. However, it should be noted that the following article does not describe the anatomy of the electric guitar (eg nut, headstock, frets, etc.).


1.Body Guitar

 In general, when seen from the model body, there are 3 types of electric guitars, namely Solid Body Guitar, Hollow and Semi-Hollow Body Body. Here's a brief description of each of these types;
Solid Body
This is the type of electric guitars are most commonly used. This guitar has a body that is intact with no cavity.
Hollow Body
It is a type of electric guitar in the guitar body where there are cavities such as the acoustic guitar. This is intended to give a 'taste' of acoustic guitar, or simply it is given an acoustic guitar pick-ups. Usually these guitars used by musicians in jazz, pop and blues.
Semi-Hollow Body
This type of guitar has a cavity at the top and bottom of the guitar, much like guitars Hollow Body. The difference is, in the middle of this guitar is still a solid wood, so it is not fully hollow body guitar. In the solid wood is usually laid pick-up, best cars.

2. Scale Length

This is the term for the distance between Bridge to Head-Nut. Size that is widely used is 25.5 "(648mm), 24.75" (729 mm) and 25 "(635mm). Here's a brief description of three of the scale;
25.5 "
It is a measure that is used in the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster. The voice on the guitar with this scale usually tends towards 'treble' with high string tension.
24.75 "
At this scale, the string tension is not too high, thus producing sound 'ngebass'. This scale is widely adopted for Gibson and Les Paul.
25 "
Of reference states, with scale guitar is easier to play. Usually used on PRS guitars, investment.

Development of The Electric Guitar

There are also things that are eccentric in the development of the seven-string guitar as popularized by Steve Vai in 1989. The idea came when he joined David Lee Roth Band in 1985, the album Crazy from the Heat. He decided that because the bassist, Billy Sheehan, often setting the bass with another formation called Drop D tuning (from top to bottom: DADG, generally EADG). In cooperation with Ibanez in 1987, finally born the seven-stringed guitar first, with the top string, alias seventh, pitched B. This guitar is called The Universe-7 String. Vai also has a guitar with a neck opposite (facing to the left and right), to prove his ability to play left-handed, ancestry.

Meanwhile, Eddie Van Halen, a pioneer in the use of the whammy bar up-down which became known as the Floyd Rose tremolo / bridge. These innovations complete with locking nut strings on the guitar. This system is known as a locking nut tremolo system.



Eddie developed a tremolo system that already exists. Namely tremolo that can only be pressed down or down (resulting in a lower tone). The old system was developed by the Fender factory and installed as standard equipment on the model Stratocaster. These innovations occurred to him in about 1976. At that time the great guitarists such as Ritchie Blackmore and Jimmy Page often have problems in tuning their guitars. Because they are often mem-bending strings too much to produce a sound that is 1½ higher tones. As a result, the strings become loose and must also be off-key tone. With a locking nut tremolo system, stringed guitar nut locked in part so as not to shift the suspense.

The Next Origins Electric Guitar

The history of the electric guitar continued in 1933 when Alvino Rey are also working on developing Pickup Gibson electric guitar Company's nothing better than the sound quality is also modified forms. Behind the success of the ES-150 was found many shortcomings, because the hollow body guitar vibrations of the guitar body also arrested pickup so it would sound on an amplifier. Besides frequent feedback and voices were unwelcome. Because it is a well-known jazz guitarist perform ance Les Paul introduced a new solution to create a solid body guitar and was hollow. In the end he succeeded in making a solid body guitar and produces a good sound without feedback or voices that are not desired. Besides adding to the body of the guitar pickup into two. In 1946 he brought it to Gibson guitar but was rejected for reasons consumers are less interested in a solid body guitar. He was disappointed because he pioneered efforts ultimately failed.

A short time later a man named Leo Fender believed that the guitar made by Les Paul with the solid body guitar will be much in demand by consumers. Finally in 1943 he made a solid body guitar made of oak wood and rent them out to the musicians that got a lot of support. Finally in 1949 Leo Fender gain success with a model of the solid body guitar and was awarded.

Seeing the success of Leo Fender with the solid body guitar, the Gibson Company Finally back to see an example of guitar Les Paul and mendisainnya reset. In 1952 it was decided to produce a solid body guitar and become an industry standard. Although the inspiration came from the Gibson Les Paul guitar which we now know is named after the company name. In 1961 Ted McCarty introducing an ES-335 semi-hollow guitar which is a combination between the guitars of hollow and solid body guitars. It quickly became popular guitar used by jazz guitarists include BB King and Chuck Berry.

Gibson and Fender is a guitar maker who had been instrumental in developing this instrument, especially electric guitar design - a futuristic design. Both have become standard guitars for musicians, as we now know Gibson SG or a Fender Stratocaster.
After the two companies have successfully developed an electric guitar, then start popping up a lot of other companies that manufacture electric guitars until now. Ashford

Origin of Electric Guitar

Then the history of the electric guitar began in 1930, when a man named George Beauchamp began looking for ways to increase the volume of the guitar appereance. Unknown if a wire in the given magnetic field, it can create an electrical current. On the basis of this thinking He researched and conducted an experiment with a gramophone needle (basically this technology can be found in electric motors, generators, needle gramophone, radio and mic). He believes that if the guitar strings vibrated close to the magnetic field will be converted into electrical currents and then converted back into sound waves through speakers. After months of trial and in collaboration with Paul Barth then created a simple first pickup consists of 6 poles and each pole of each string. Pickup contains neatly rolled coils. According to the story, He took the coil of a washing machine and melilitnya back with a sewing machine motor. This discovery greatly appreciated and obtain patents, ancestry.

With this discovery the next step He is looking for people who are willing to cooperate and help in the matter of funding. He contacted his friend Adolph Rickenbacher first at the National String Instrument Company, where she worked. They worked together and formed a company with the name Instrumens Rickenbachers. Eventually they began producing the first electric guitar called "The Frying Pan" (possibly due to the guitar body is made of the pan). This makes their company written in history as the first factory to make and produces electric guitars.

Furthermore, a man named Lloyd Quill Loar introduced the electric guitar Spanish guitar-shaped model. He is considered the first developing and marketing this model guitar. He has conducted these experiments began early in 1920 and in 1933 set up a company by the name of Vivi Tone which is a subsidiary of Gibson Company. The company manufactures electric guitar with Spanish guitar shape but in a year the company is not successful.

From this failure, eventually inspire Gibson Company to try to continue creating an electric guitar. Of the efforts undertaken it creates ES-150 electric guitar that would become a pioneering electric guitars next. TIRES

Global Guitar History

Although no one knows for sure how the history of the origin of the guitar, historians argue that the guitar is descended from kithara in Greece, gittern in Western Europe, lyre, lute from Europe and the Middle East, and vihuela from Spain. In a poem entitled The Book of Good Love, described also two early musical instrument called guitarra morisca and guitarra latina. Musical instrument called "guitar" itself first appeared in the literature in the 13th century. Even so, most of these medieval era record describing the instrument as gittern.

Modern guitar incarnation first appeared in the Renaissance. Guitar at that time had four pairs of strings named course. Guitar in Renaiss ance also has much in common with the vihuela of Spain which is a musical instrument with a 6 course with tuning and the same construction. In 1555, Juan Bermudo publish Declaracion de Instrumentos Musicales, an agreement in which there are parts of stringed plucked musical instrument. This publication examines the relationship between dah vihuela guitar, and also distinguish between guitars with 4 and 5 course. Guitar with 4 course itself does not reach the point where they could be eliminated by a guitar with a 5 course until the Baroque period.

Until the 16th century, the vihuela into a musical instrument that is very popular in Spain and Italy. This instrument seems to have a strong influence both in terms of design and tuning of guitars 5 course which first appeared in Spain in the mid 16th century. Some time later, a guitar with a 5 course began to slowly replace the Renaissance guitar which has four courses, especially in Spain. Guitars 5 this course then sets the modern standard tuning - A, D, G, B, E - as a string of top that continues to this day. Since the mid 18th century until the early 19th century, the guitar began to evolve into a musical instrument with six strings. 6 string guitar at that time still smaller than the modern guitar.

Modern classical guitar that exist now owe everything to Antonio de Torres. Construction guitars is considered as a standard in the manufacture of traditional musical instruments since the mid-19th century. Contemporary classical guitar himself following in the footsteps Smallman design that replaces the fan brace with balsa brace lighter, paired on the rear of the soundboard with carbon fiber. Balsa This brace has a honeycomb pattern and allow the soundboard to produce more modes of vibration. This allows for the guitar can have a louder voice.

On development, conducted several experiments to try mengamplify vibration on stringed instruments. This experiment has been done much since the beginning of the 20th century. There are several patents from 1910 that shows the adaptation and application of a transmitter for a phone that is placed on the violin and banjo-by mengamplify voice. Hobbyists guitar in 1920 also conduct these experiments, where they use the carbon microphone button which is placed on the bridge. Unfortunately, instead laying the microphone captures the vibration of the bridge above the instrument, resulting in a poor signal.

History of the origin of the electric guitar itself was originally designed by the guitar maker and the manufacturing of musical instruments. Some electric guitar in the early days of adapting the acoustic musical instrument body is empty and using tungsten pickup. The first electric guitar was designed in 1931 by George Beauchamp, a General Manager at the National Guitar Corporation along with Paul Barth who became vice president in the same place. Prototype named "Frying Pan" has a color like maple and built by Harry Watson, a Factory Superintendent of the National Guitar Corporation. Purwarpa is starting to get into the stage of commercial production at the end of the summer of 1932 by the Ro-Pat-In Corporation (stands for Electro-Patent-Instrument Company of Los Angeles), business partners Beauchamp, Adolph Rickenbacker, and Paul Barth. In 1934, the company changed its name to Rickenbacker Electro stringed Instrument Company.