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