Easy Beginner Guitar Lessons 2 Knowing Your Guitar

This is called the head and these are the tuning pegs the tuning pegs are attached to the strings and they function to either tighten or contract a string. So when a string vibrates it's going like this. Now if you stretch the string more the string starts to vibrate like this and it produces a higher pitch. If you loosen the string it starts to wobble a bit more and you get a lower pitch so you can feel whether your tightening or contracting a string by feeling tension in the string, in the tuning peg, sorry This is called the neck of the guitar.

These divisions are called frets and the frets produce different notes This is the body and this is the sound hole. Whenever you play guitar for people, you never face the sound hole away from the people. The sound hole must always be facing the people your playing for.

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