Parts of the Guitar
(ST) First thing’s first, you want to get to know your axe. This is pretty straight forward, but you may want to pay particular attention to the ‘tuning keys’ as we’ll use them soon. Also, take note of the ‘fretboard inlays’; these are markers to help you know where you are on the fretboard.
Everything else should be self-explanatory; you don’t need to know the science behind how electric guitar pickups etc. work at the moment, and if you have a tremolo bar on an electric guitar, just experiment to see how it alters the sound. Examine your own guitar and get to know it.
Electric Guitar Parts
Acoustic Guitar Parts
Note: The ‘tuning keys’, ‘strings’, ‘fret inlays’ and ‘bridge pins’ of the acoustic guitar, and the ‘tuning keys’, ‘strings’, ‘fret inlays’, ‘saddles’, ‘pickups’ and ‘volume and tone’ controls of the electric guitar are plural even though I’m only pointing to one of each.
Also, the ‘fretboard’ is the whole top piece of wood, and the metal fret wire that divides the fretboard into sections create the ‘frets’.