Electric Guitar Lessons

Guitar lessons for students who want to start learning on electric guitar.

How To Change Electric Guitar Strings Using A String Winder

Learning to play the electric guitar requires much more than daily practice. Musical instruments and electronic equipment always need care and maintenance, and a regular part of maintaining your guitar is changing the strings. This tutorial will give you the basic info on how to string an electric guitar with a minimum of fuss. Once you have gone through the process a couple of times, you will be able to do it in your sleep. If you have never changed guitar strings before, you will need to make sure you know how they are attached. If you are not confident…

Some Points for Beginners on Learning How to Play Electric Guitar

A new Discipline When you begin a course of electric guitar lessons you will be setting aside a part of your day for guitar practice. During this practice time you will be engaging in a range of new activities including: repetitive practice of unfamiliar patterns of movement such as chord changes, picking and strum patterns, and as you advance, more demanding techniques such as string skipping, harmonics and playing scales learning the language of music – either notation or tab All of these new activities will be performed while you are supporting a heavy musical instrument. Discovering How to Hold…

One of the challenges of the electric guitar for beginners is tuning. Electric guitars are more likely to go out of tune with just a little use, so it is very important to check the guitar’s tuning often. The basic method of tuning electric and acoustic guitars is the same, so if you do not know how to tune a guitar, use this tutorial. The factor that makes learning how to tune an electric guitar acquiring a new skill set is the range of features available on electric guitar tuners. If you have a computer handy when you are tuning…

A Diagram of the Parts of the Electric Guitar

The picture above shows the parts of the electric guitar. This explanation of the parts of the electric guitar gives you the basic knowledge you need before you start playing. The production, amplification and distortion of the sound made by the electric guitar is an art in itself, but the basic principles are easy to understand. The guitar in the picture is a solid body electric called a Stratocaster. The guitarist picks or strums the strings, and the pickups – microphones situated near the bridge – transfer the sound to an amplifier. The BODY of the guitar is made of…