Easy and Well explained Introduction to Guitar

Wow, I can feel the Weekend vibes today (July 25, 2020).

Have you learnt something new today? If you have not, do well to learn oooo, this atmosphere is favourable for learning new things. And I assure you it will stick to your memory.

Do you have a guitar with you and you don’t even know what it is all about or understand anything about it??? Do you intend to pick up the guitar as a second or another instrument in your musical career??? Do you wish to just learn the guitar for yourself and perhaps for your immediate friends??? Do you have a crush on the guitar and you wish to know a little thing about it??? Have you started learning but you still don’t know how to locate your keys, the parts and the musical notes in the guitar???

Then this video is for you!!!

I decided to share this video which I did on the 5th of March 2020, to help those in this wonderful community who wish to learn the guitar. This is an introductory video to the guitar. This video covers 3 aspects that can count as “Overview of the Guitar” and that is 1. What is a guitar, 2. Parts of a Guitar and 3. Identification of Keys and Notes.

What is a guitar?

this is the picture of my guitar, how does it look???

A guitar is a stringed musical instrument, with a fretted fingerboard and strings played by plucking or strumming with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

We have acoustic or box guitar, electric lead and bass guitar and electroacoustic or semiacoustic guitar. Let me explain them!

Acoustic or box Guitar: Basically, for playing rhythm and solo; but the sound it produces comes from the sound hole there with the vibration of the strings.

(Electric) Lead Guitar: It is a rhythm and solo instrument like the acoustic guitar but the sound can be amplified with the output jack and the tone or volume buttons.
(Electric) Bass Guitar: For playing low pitched frequencies that corresponds to the bass part in Choir. The sound can also be amplified with the output jack and the tone or volume buttons.
Semi Acoustic/Electro Acoustic Guitar (for bass and lead): An acoustic guitar that is fitted with a pickup; that enables the sound to be amplified.

PARTS OF THE GUITAR

The guitar is made of three main parts: The Head, the Neck and the Body. But, aside these three parts, we have other parts located across the three main parts, they include: Tuning pegs, nut, fret, fretboard, position markers, strings, sound hole, saddle, bridge and scratch plate. The electric guitars possess the pickups, pickup selector switch, tone/volume controls and output jack.

IDENTIFICATION OF KEYS AND NOTES

We have 12 musical notes (they correspond to the Keys)
A – A# or Bb – B – C – C# or Db – D – D# or Eb – E – F – F# or Gb – G – G# or Ab
The 6 strings of a guitar are numbered 1 – 6, from the tiniest to the thickest and they are also named in that order.
1 – E
2 – B
3 – G
4 – D
5 – A
6 – E
To remember this, we can use the notes to form a sentence: Every Body Go Down And Eat
1 – E (every)
2 – B (body)
3 – G (go)
4 – D (down)
5 – A (and)
6 – E (eat)

(The Video explains more about this)

Anatomy of the guitar picture from www.libertyparkmusic.com/wp-content/uploads-electric-guitar-parts.jpg

Feel Free to ask for further clarification and assistance. Your feedback, song suggestions and comments are highly welcomed. I wish i'll get upvotes from this post.

Thank You, from Ksam!!!