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Learn how to play guitar. In This Guitar Lesson For Beginners, Learn The Guitar Anatomy/ Parts of Guitar. In this lesson, you will learn about acoustic guitar parts and electric guitar parts.
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00:00 Learn Guitar Beginner Course
00:35 Fundamental Parts Of Guitar
00:42 Headstock Of The Guitar
01:07 Neck Of The Guitar
03:03 Body Of The Guitar
04:34 Pinless Bridge Guitar
04:53 Truss rod
05:53 Strap Buttons And Straps
06:23 Strings Of Guitar
07:36 Parts Of Electric Guitar
10:52 Right-Handed vs Left-Handed Guitar
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Hello everybody, welcome to yet another video and in this video and in this video I'm going to teach you about guitar
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parts, how the guitars are constructed. We are going to talk about acoustic guitars and electric guitars
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So the main parts of the guitar are your headstock, your neck and your body. Now in the headstock
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we have tuning pegs. These are used to tune the strings. You can take the tuning up, higher in
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pitch and lower in the pitch. So these are used to alter the pitch. Second, the string goes through
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it when you're changing the strings, the string goes through it and wraps to it and this is what
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holds the string as well. Then we have the nut here. This is what the strings are going through
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If you see there's there are these cavities and the strings are going through the nut
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Then comes the neck. This is the neck of the guitar. This is the most important aspect of your
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guitar. You will be spending a lot of time exploring the neck of the guitars. Neck is basically
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it's running from here till here and it's divided into different frits using the frid wires
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These steel, these are I guess nickel frit wires here that I have in this guitar
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These are running here. The wires that you see, these wires, the ones below the string, these ones that you see here
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that are running all the way till here. This is also a frit wire
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So these frid wires divide your neck into different fridts. So from here till here we have frit one, from here till here we have frid two
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then from here till here we have frit three and so on it keeps on going
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So frit wise basically divide your neck into different fritz. Other than that, the brown wood that you are seeing, it might be
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this is rose wood, it might be maple wood in some, it might be ebony wood in some
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Colors might vary from guitar to guitar. This is called a fingerboard. The wood inside, that is called your fingerboard
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Then the finger board, on the fingerboard, we have the inlays here as well
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So there are inlays. These small dots that you see. These are called inlays
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These might be dots. crosses or even snakes in some guitar depends from guitar to guitar again generally
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these are dots so these are caught inlets or frit markers you can also call
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them frit markers on the top as well if you can see here these dots here
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these are also frit markers so these are used to remember where which frit is
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to just to identify basically not to remember to identify which fret you are
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playing at so generally frit markers are at frit 3 5 7 then you your 9 your 12 your 15 17 19 and so on
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That is the neck. Then we have your body here. The neck is joined to the body
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It might be glued. It might be bolt on. It might be bolt on
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Mine is a glued set on neck. So neck is joined to the body. In the body, the major first thing that you see is the front wood
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This is the side. So this is called the front. This is called the sides and this is the back of the guitar
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So on the body, the first thing that you observe is the sound hole. This is through which the amplification happens
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When you pick a string, it vibrates. The vibrations enter this whole body of the guitar and it gets amplified and gets louder
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Then you have the pick guard here. The pick guard is what is there to avoid scratches. That is the main purpose of pick
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card next comes the bridge this bridge this part from this that the brown wood
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that you see this is the bridge it is used to hold the strings in place so
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bridge in the body and your tuning pegs here these is these hold the strings so
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in the bridge we also have a saddle this is used to raise the string and also to
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vary the intonation of guitars that's advanced concept we can get with
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later. Then we have the bridge pins. These are the bridge pins here that you can see. These are used to
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stop the strings from coming out so you just you can take them out as well when you're changing the
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strings. Some guitars might not have bridge pins. Let me show you one. I have one here. So let me just
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pick it up. So this guitar here, there are no bridge pins. It's pinless bridge here. The strings
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go through from here and this is what holds the strings in place
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this is a pilness bridge basically all right next commence your trust rod adjustment hole if you
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look inside the body from here you will see a small hole that is your trust rod adjustment nut
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basically what is a trust rod that is the question so trust rod there's a there's a metal rod
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running inside inside of your neck and this is called as a trust rod this metal rod is called as a
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truss rod it is used basically so that whenever there's a bend in your neck with the changes in
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weather and changes in atmosphere your neck tends to bend because this is wood it will expand and
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contract so it will bend a little bit so to make those adjustment there is a trust rod there
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is a metal rod that is used so there is the hole that is there that is used to with an ln key
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with the help of an ellen key you can access the nut and you can adjust your trust rod that is an advanced concept if you are a complete beginner do not try it Rather take it to someone with the knowledge On the body you also have strap buttons here
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This is a strap button. On this end this guitar does not have a strap button. So when I'm
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buying a strap I need to buy a strap with a lace in this guitar. So this is the strap
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button. On some guitars there are two strap buttons. One would be here as well. If that
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is there then you can use a normal strap to strap it on. If that is not there then you
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we need the strap with a lace to tie it from here. After this comes the major part of your guitar, that are the strings
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Generally we have six strings on an acoustic guitar. There can be guitars with seven string, eight string
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12 string, even if you might see custom guitars with nine strings or so
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but that is very rare. So we have six strings on this acoustic guitar
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The very thinnest string on your guitar, this string, is the first string
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then you have the second string here, then the third string, then the fourth, then the fifth, then the sixth
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So this is how you name them, first string to sixth string. Or you can also call them according to your tuning, if you have a guitar tuned into standard tuning
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Then this is the E string. This is the B. Then you have the G
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Then you have D, A and E. but that will that can keep on changing if you change the tuning so the best way to
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remember is the first string second string third string fourth string fourth string fifth string and
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your six string so these are the strings that you have on a six string guitar if you have a
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seven string guitar then there will be a seven string as well okay that is all there is to this acoustic
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guitar now let's talk about an electric guitar so here i have an electric guitar with me this is a
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less pole shaped electric guitar there are seven shapes for an electric guitar it could be a stratocaster it could be a telecaster it could be a less
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pearl shape like this you also have headless guitars there's a lot more if you want to know more
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about the different type of shapes of the guitar as this you head over to my blog link is in the
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description box and you can read all about different shapes of your guitars electric as well as acoustic
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so in in the electric guitar what's major differences that we have electronics these are all
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electronics that we have here and these are used to generate sound so if i pick an electric guitar
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the acoustic sound is very low it this is not tuned sadly but the acoustic guitar the acoustically
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generated sound is very low so we have the electronics these electronics are used to pick up the sound
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and then it is amplified and it can get as loud as even going for a rock concert or whatever
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so parts of the electric guitar remains the same this the headstock tuning peg your neck then you have the frit wires your frids you can see the inlays on this guitar are completely different It kind of a flag that we have here
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Then you have frit markers here as well. Then these are your strap buttons, this one and this one here on the body
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Now on the body the bridge is quite different, you see. This is the tail and this is the bridge
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So these are quite different here. This is a Tom style of bridge
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There are several types of bridges on electric guitar as well. All are mentioned in my blog, so head over and check them out
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Then we have the electronics. This is a pickup. So what pickup does is, it picks up the sound
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Whenever you vibrate the string, the pickups, they magnetically pick up the sound
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and then you can later amplify them. So this is a Humberka pickup
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The other type of pickup is single coil pickup. The major difference is that these are two different poles that are there in a Humberka Picker
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on a single coil pickup you will just have this one of these as these are two here you will have just one of these
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then on the electric guitar we have the knobs here these are small potential meters that you see here
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these are used to control your volume and your tone then we have the switch here this is the pickup
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selector switch you might be having a five-way or a three-way switch depending on your guitar
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then on the backside of the electric guitar you have the cavities this is the cavity for your switch
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and this is the cavity for your pots. If you have a fender-style guitar that is a stratocaster
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you might not be having any cavities on the back. There will be a pig guard here, a long-pick-guard
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that is removable in the stratocaster style of guitars. When we talk about the neck, there might be a plate here
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if you have a bolt-on guitar. Mine is a sit-neck, so the neck is actually glued to the body
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If yours is a bolt-on neck, then there will be screws here as well, in the plate as well
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So that these are the parts of your electric guitar here. Let's switch back to the acoustic guitar
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Now other than this, the other thing to consider is this is a right-handed guitar
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If you have a left-handed guitar, it will be the other way around. And if you are a left-hand player, majorly your left-hand works more than your right-hand
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You're writing with your left-hand, then you will need a left-hand guitar. That is all for this video. I hope you enjoyed the video and learned something new
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And do subscribe to the channel and I will see you on in the next video
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The next video is about how to hold your guitar and start playing
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