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The iPlayMusic Training Center is an innovative and exciting place for beginner guitar players to learn to play and
practice their skills. We offer a variety of information from guitar chords and strumming patterns to Chord Transitions &
Finger Strength Techniques. This training center is designed to give you the skills you need to play the songs you love.
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Basics

  How to Hold Guitar
  How to Tune Guitar
  Guitar Pick
  Hand Positioning
>Guitar Anatomy

Guitar Anatomy Lesson

Before we get into the lessons, it is important to understand some basic terminology and the layout of your guitar. The anatomy of the guitar is organized much like the human body:

Figure 1

Guitar Head

This is the part of the guitar that has the knobs (called tuning keys) that you use to tune your guitar.

Guitar Neck

This is the long part of the guitar that the strings run across. The front of the neck is called the fretboard.

Guitar Body

This is the largest part of the guitar. If you have an acoustic guitar or hollow body electric guitar, then it's the part that is hollowed out. Guitar bodies have many different shapes, sizes, and wood types that create a variety of tones. If you have an electric guitar with a solid body, the sound is converted to an electric signal through your guitar pickups that are located under the strings on the body of the guitar. The signal is sent to your amplifier via the guitar cable, and the amplifier then boosts the signal and adds its own character to the sound.

Guitar Frets

Guitar frets are the metal strips on the fretboard of the guitar neck. Frets are spaced apart from each other and span all the way up the neck. Frets exist so that when you press down on a string at a particular position of the neck, the string makes a specific tone. The higher up the neck you go, the higher the "pitch" of the sound will be.

Fret and String Numbering

In this book and in the accompanying videos, we number the frets and strings for simplicity.

Tuning keys

There are 6 tuning keys on the head of your guitar. By turning these keys, you can adjust the tension of the strings on the guitar. By tightening, you can raise the pitch of a particular string. By loosening, you can lower the pitch.

Guitar Bridge

The bridge is located at the base of the guitar body. It holds the end of the strings to the guitar on the body.

For the best (most resonant) tone, the strings of the guitar should be strummed in between the base of the Neck of the guitar and the Bridge of the guitar (shaded area).

These are the essential parts of the guitar that we will be discussing in this book. There is a lot of other guitar-specific and musical terminology that we've chosen to omit, simply because we want to keep things as simple and straight forward as possible, so you can start having fun and playing right away.