As far back as history can take us, music has always been a part of the human race. The Indians used drumbs and other small instruments to communiate to the other villages and to also warn the other villages if there was trouble coming. They would also use their instruments to do group celabrations.
To counteract these problems, inventors experimented with solid- body guitars. Les Paul created "The Log," a guitar whose strings and pickups were mounted on a guitar body carved from a solid block of wood. The first recordings of electric guitars were made in 1933 by Hawaiian music artists such as Andy Lona. With advancing technology, more sophisticated musical instruments became possibe, and during the 20th century, peaking in the 60's and 70's the electric guitar became an institution for musicians and a battlefield of competition among the great guitar players of the era.
The definiton of a eletric guitar and how it works would be, "An electric guitar is a fretted string instrument that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of it strings- which are tipically made of metal, and which occures when a guitarist strums, plucks or fingerspicks the stirngs- into electrical impulses. The vibrations of the strings are sensed by a pickup, of which the most common type is the magnetic pickup, which uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction. The singal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is plugged into a guitar amplifier before being ent to a loudspeaker, which makes a sound loud enough to hear. The outpt of an electric guitar is an electric signal, and the signal can easily be altered by electronic circuits to add "color" to the sound or change the sound. Often the signal is modified using effects such as reverb and distortion and "overdrive," with the latter being a key element of the sound of the electric fuitar as it is used in blues and rock music." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitar
Heres a picture of a electric guitar with the names of the different components that it has.
Heres a video of the greatest top guitar solos that show the different types of sounds that the electric guitar can make. Thus, fair warning, these solos are awesome and if you are into some old- school music then you will love this video and it ends with my favorite solo by the Eagles, Hotel Califorina ending solo. Note, you do not have to watch the whole thing its over 14 minutes long but otherwise, Enjoy!!!
Here is a picture of myself with my new electric gutiar it is a Laguna and was used when I got it but works great!!! It is very fun to play and the songs that I can play would be, Two Pink Floyd songs, Wish You Were Here, and Comfortably Numb. Seether, Broken, and Breakdown. 3 Days Grace, Never Too Late and I Am Machine and I am learning Riot. I can also play John Legend, All Of Me. One song I have been working on is Guns and Roses, Sweet Child Of Mine.
I hope you enjoyed and let me know what you think! (:
Hey Raine, nice post, very interesting. It is cool you can play guitar as well. We just leaned some similar background information in my electronic music class. I myself am trying to learn guitar, hopefully i get it down soon. Its a fun instrument to play. Solid post keep up the good work.
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