If you are a beginner and have decided to learn the guitar then basic knowledge about the guitar bridge, parts of a guitar neck is very helpful. The parts of the guitar neck are frets, fretboard, tuners, headstock, and truss rod. It will help you tune your guitar. Tuning your guitar is the most important step because if your guitar is not tuned, it will not sound good and you definitely don’t want that. You should buy the best guitar parts to upgrade the guitar.
So, let us first learn about the parts of a guitar neck followed by the steps to tune a guitar. So, these parts are explained below:
Frets: Frets are the raised wires that run across the width of the fingerboard. These help the strings to be shortened by pressing them down behind them. While playing the guitar, players don’t have to find the perfect spot of a note which happens with other fretless instruments like a violin.
Tuners: Tuners are also termed as machine heads and tuning pegs. These bits are twisted to tune your guitar. The key part which is flat is joined where the string is wound. When you tighten or loosen these bits, it helps in changing the tension in strings and as a result, it helps to change the pitch. These bits are also known as guitar tuner buttons and one must replace the old and dirty guitar tuning pegs with new ones.
Tuning your guitar:
So, now you know and understand the parts of the guitar neck and their working. The next thing which you need to learn is the name of strings and how to tune the guitar.
The names of the open strings on the guitar are E – A – D – G – B – E from top to bottom where the top string (E) is the thickest string and the bottom string (E) is the thinnest string. To learn the name of strings here is an easy way to do so.
