Let's talk about electric guitars: guitar neck and its meaning

Guitar guitar is its most important part, affecting not only the convenience of playing the guitar, but also the quality of its sound. It is on it that there are strings and frets.

To begin, perhaps, follows that electric guitars can have three types of vultures, depending on the type of their attachment: screwed, through and pasted. Screwed, as you might guess by the name, are attached to the body of the electric guitar with screws, glued - glued, and through are one with the body.

Of course, each type has its pros and cons. So, the screwed guitar neck can be easily removed for repair or replacement purposes, and its cost is not high. However, it can not give a very good sound.

Pass-through vultures look very aesthetic, durable, never loose and fall off. Electric guitars with this type of griffins have an excellent sound, and their lack of a heel makes it easy to reach the uppermost frets. However, the cost of such guitars is quite high due to the complexity of their manufacture, and the broken neck can not be changed.

Optimal, perhaps, are guitars with a glued neck - they do not cost much, the sound is good, and the mount is reliable. Of course, you can not replace a broken neck with them, but in the event of a breakdown, the losses will not be as great as in the case of a through type.

But if the types are simple - you can work with each of them, then there are parameters that are mandatory for all electric guitars. So, the guitar neck is any! - in no case should be direct, otherwise when playing the strings will touch frets. Therefore, its ideal shape will be a curve passing through the points of the greatest amplitude of each string. Another thing is that it is very difficult to find such a bar.

In addition, the neck should not have any chips or scratches. It is necessary to check the system - of course, it can not be ideal, but the detuning should not be big. People who do not have the perfect musical ear can check this by the distance between frets and strings - it should not be too large - and according to the mood of the scale.

By the way, if we talk about the scale, it, like the guitar itself, is different. At electric guitars its length varies from 60.3 to 64.8 centimeters. The longer this length, the harder it is to play the guitar, but the less the percussive tone of sound.

Of considerable importance for any musician is the material from which the neck of the guitar is made. This is usually a maple or mahogany (directly the neck) and maple, ebony or rosewood (the front part). Of course, there are guitars from cheaper wood or plastic.

It should be noted that the material depends not only on the appearance, but also on the sound of the guitar. On the instrument of a quality wood, you can play stunning tunes, striking depth and sound quality. But guitars of cheap material - especially plastic - do not sound very good.

When choosing an electric guitar, it is important to notice not only the material from which the neck is made, but also its quality - if this tree, then it should have a uniform color and structure, nothing should prevent the fingers from sliding on the back of the neck.

In addition, you should carefully examine the frets - their number should be 21, 22 or 24. Their number determines how many notes you can play on this guitar.

Attention deserve and bright, shiny marks on the front side of the neck. They are needed for beginning guitarists to easily remember the location of the notes on the guitar's fretboard. These mother-of-pearl spots should be marked on the third, fifth, seventh, ninth and twelfth frets, less often on the fifteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth.

By the way, those who study the musical structure, can help not only they, but also very common among beginning guitarists drawings, which schematically depicts the guitar, notes, frets and strings.