Hi all, great to see you back here! Today we’re going to learn more about the electric guitar bridge and some of the common problems that you may encounter. Read the rest of this entry »
Hi all, great to see you back here! Today we’re going to learn more about the electric guitar bridge and some of the common problems that you may encounter. Read the rest of this entry »
Together with the tuning pegs guitar bridge provides tension to the guitar strings. The higher the tension the higher the string’s pitch will be. In addition to supporting the strings, guitar bridge also works as a transmitting medium. It transmits the strings vibration to the guitar top so the sound can be amplified in the guitar body cavity. Without the guitar body we can hardly hear the sound because as the strings vibrate they only displace place a small volume of air. In order to be heard the sound has to be transmitted to a larger surface area, in this case is the guitar top. Read the rest of this entry »
Talking about guitar maintenance we sometimes overlook the guitar frets condition.
Guitar fret is made of an alloy of copper and nickel, a much softer material compared to the stainless steel guitar strings. On acoustic guitars the first and second strings will cut into the frets faster than the other strings, because they are thin and sharp, and made of stainless steel. The rest strings are wound by other alloy materials such as nickel, bronze or brass which are softer than stainless steel so they won’t cut as severe as the first two strings. Read the rest of this entry »
Greetings everybody, good to see you again in this Beginner Guitar Lessons blog. I assume you already know how to tune a guitar. One of the guitar tuning problems you probably have is your guitar keeps out of tune, where after a certain amount of tension is put on the string the tuning peg goes back releasing the string back to its previous condition. Whilst you think that the tuning pegs need replacement, sometimes they just need this little adjustment: Read the rest of this entry »