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Learning To Play Guitar - Know Your Guitar

So, you’ve decided to learn to play guitar. Congrads! You’re going to love it. The first step in learning to play is getting to know the components of your guitar.

The guitar is an iconic instrument. In the hands of masters like the Romero Family, it can sound like a piano, drum, violin or, God forbid, a guitar! It takes years of practice to get to that point as you might imagine. That being said, you may get there sooner than you think. Why? Playing the guitar is very addicting. It is all over once you learn that first song, so be warned!

The key to avoiding frustration is to take things slowly at first. Build a good foundation and you’ll play for a long time and happily so. Try to learn Eruption by Van Halen the first day and you’ll be giving up the instrument pretty quickly. Okay, so where do we start? The first step is to know the components of the instrument.

The Body

The body of the guitar is not the entire instrument. Instead, it refers to the area where you strum. On an acoustic guitar, this is the hollow wood area. The body comes with a bridge, which the strings run across and connect to the guitar near the hole. That hole in the body is known by the sophisticated name of “the holeâ€. When you are first learning to play, it is known as the pick eater because you might develop a tendency to drop your pick in it!

The Neck and Head

The strings run up the “neck†of the guitar from the body to the “headstockâ€. The metal pieces running perpendicular on the neck are known as frets. Pressing the strings before, after or on the frets creates different tunes. At the top of the neck, you’ll find a white piece of material running perpendicular to the neck. This is known as the nut. It slots the strings and stabilizes them for the run up to the tuners. What are tuners? They are the little devices on the headstock that you attach the strings to. As you turn the tuners, you tune the guitar to the desired sound.

That’s it. Some guitars will have additional items on them, but these are the basic elements. Now you know the anatomy of the guitar and it is time to start playing!

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Mark P. Warner writes for WhoInventedtheGuitar.com - where you can find out who invented the guitar and get free lessons to learn how to play.

double neck bass guitar, fretless/fretted?

I find myself switching back and forth between my fretless 4-string P-bass with a fender jazz neck and my 5-string Carvin fretted bass.

I play in a band with a guy who writes a kind of funk/blusey/pop-rock, so I try to get both the Jaco fretless sound and Flea funk sound (although I'll never measure up to either, lol). There's one song in particular that has a fast, funky verse and a slow, melodic chorus, but it's hard enough to switch between songs (often we go from song to song without a break), and switching in the middle of a song is out of the question.

I know I'd loose cool points in some people's eyes with a geeky double neck bass, but aesthetics aside, do y'all think it would work well? What issues would there be? Would the two jazz necks be to neck-heavy? Where would I get a body? (Warmoth has a P-strat double body) Should the top neck be right hand and the bottom left so the tuners are more accessible? Thanks!

Hey Jay:

I definitely would not consider a double neck to be "geeky"! After all, Geddy Lee in his early years played a 12 string guitar/4 string bass doubleneck Rickenbacker!

Ok... on to your dilemma. Im enclosing a link for a 4 string frettless/5 string fretted that wont kill ya for what your getting. While you wont find these guitars at MF, GC, Sam Ash or other music sites, they ARE decent instruments. The brand is Galveston, and for the most part, they get decent reviews. Here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Double-Neck-Electric-Bass-Guitar-Korean-CASE-NEW_W0QQitemZ120404701184QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item1c08adf000&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A2102|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A1|294%3A50

These are Korean made basses. I believe a hardshell case is also included. Ive never played the doubleneck Galvestons, but, I have played 4,5,and 6 string models that were fretted and fretless. Everyone I have played is a very decent instrument. From my experience with these, there probably will be some "tweaking" involved, but they have good fit and finish, easy playing fretboards, and sound wise... very suprising I must say. Upgrading the bridge and tuning keys later on would make this a killer bass. Ive yet to play one with bad lifeless pickups. As far as building one yourself, cant help out to much as far which companies to go to. Left-T would be one to help on that.

Here is a link I found on Harmony Central for a review of this bass:

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Electric+Bass/product/Galveston/Double+Neck+5-String+Fretted%2F4-String+Fretless/10/1

Hope this has helped, and good luck!

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