First, we need to take some time to get to know the parts of the guitar. The guitar I will be referring to in the following sections is an acoustic 6-string guitar. If you are right handed, you hold the guitar so your right hand is the strumming hand (it rests on the strings above the hole on the body of the guitar). Your left hand is then the picking hand, which rests on the neck of the guitar.
The large wooden part of the guitar is referred to as the “body” while the thin piece that is connected to the body is called the “neck.” The strings run from the “bridge” which is on the body of the guitar (near the hole in the body) and connect to the “tuning pegs” which are on the “head” of the guitar.
The metal pieces that lie along the neck at seemingly random intervals are the “frets” and the neck is sometimes referred to as the “fretboard.” The six strings are pressed onto the fretboard by the player’s hand, which shortens the part of the string allowed to vibrate when plucked, which changes the pitch of the string. So (again, I speak for a right handed player, just reverse right and left for left handed player) the player’s left hand frets combinations of strings against the fretboard, while the right hand plucks or strums the strings to cause them to vibrate.
This is just very first of the beginning guitar lessons and gives total newbies starting point in learning to play guitar.
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