What is an Electric Guitar?

When a guitar work electrically - that is, amplifying the sound through speakers -, it's called Electric Guitar. In this instrument, the vibration of the strings doesn't proyected through the sounboard, like the Acustic Guitar, but it's captured by the pickups - sophisticated microphones for electric guitars than works through the piezoelectricitic effect - and converted in electric signals  

An Electric Guitar has many parts, but there are three basics. First, the Body, solid (not like the hollow body of the Acustic, but it can be semi-hollow) and stylish. Over the Body there are the pickups, under the strings, wich are mounted in the Bridge. You have some knobs in the Body, wich regulates the volume, tone, etc. Then, you have the Neck, and over it the Fretboard, in wich the frets (narrow metal parts) divide the surface in many parts. Each of these parts of the freatboard is a musical tone, putted in simply words. Finally, there is the Headstock, where there are the tuners to tune the strings.

The Electric Guitar offers new possibilities in respect of the Acustic Guitar. In particular, you can do a lot of techniques in the Electric Guitar that you cannot do in the Acustic . With the smaller proportions of the inter-frets spaces the digitation can be faster (han in hand with the picking technique). You can also use the tapping technique, wich has a very characteristic sound and increases your playing velocity, and other techniques like the sweep picking, picking arpeggios, etc.

That's all, I hope this post has helped you

France, the place I want to know

Among all the countries I want to visit, it's very difficult to choose just one, but I think it is France.

I know France is a very important cradle of Anarquism, with a lot of anarchists experiences in the past and, of course, now, so I'm very interested to be sorrounded by that environment. Then, the French culture, like any other that’s not mine, it is a strong reason to visit the gallic country. I love learning about other cultures and meeting people from other societies. Finally, I want to visit France because it's in Central Europe which, along with Scandinavia, is the biggest Metal music scene in the world.

In France, I’d like to, first, go to the local Metal festivals, like the Hellfest or the Xtreme Fest and, finally, attend to the Wacken Open Air, in the neighboring Germany. Then, I’d like to get around all Paris, and, why not, all France, if it’s possible, to know the culture, from the Versalles and the Lovre to the rural vineyards.

Of course, I’d like to live there, because it has a very comfortable political environment for me, not only for the anarchism, but also for the ideological thinking in the country, like tolerance to the gender diversity and the laicism. But, if I’d like to live and to go to Metal festivals in France, I need to work there! Maybe the best option is to be studying - Music – in France and, thus, live there.