Sunday, February 7, 2010

Guitar strings and things


I am taking guitar class with four other kids. Finn is taking guitar
lessons with another class. Miss Holly is our teacher!

All guitars have 6 or 12 strings and all guitars have a fret board which can be called the 'neck'. I like to call it the neck. They also have frets. A fret is what you put your finger behind. The main parts of a guitar are: head, neck, and body. In the head are the tuning pegs and part of the strings. In the neck there are most of the strings, the nut, position markers, and the frets (fret wires). In the body there are two strap pegs (if you have them) the soundhold, a part of the string, the waist the bridge and that's it.

You should know how to hold a guitar. You should hold it by putting the body on your lap with the soundhole facing out. Then take your left hand and put it at the top of the neck. Your fingers should curl around the bottom to the front and your thumb should stay in the back. You right hand plays the strings with your pointer finger or with your thumb. If you have a pick you can use your pick. A pick is something that looks like a large, not that pointy fingernail. You hold a pick between your thumb and your pointer finger.

The order of the strings go like this: E - A - D - G - B - E. You can remember them by saying this sentence: Everyone Asks, Do Goats Burp Everyday. If you tell someone and they don't know how to remember by the sentence you should just tell them just to take the first letter of every word in the sentence. We made up a new sentence: Elephants And Dogs Go Biking Everywhere. There is also another one and this is how it goes: Every Animal Does Go Burp Everyday.

BYE!

1 comment:

Teresa said...

Great expository writing Owen! You look like a natural for playing guitar.