Are you hunting for a brand new electric guitar? With several brands available in the market, buying a new guitar for the first time will be an overwhelming task. This article helps you to choose the right one that best suits your needs.Electric guitars are easy to play because of its lighter gauge and lower playing action. Their body styles are of three types namely semi-hollow, solid body and hollow-body.Solid body guitars are basic models and are made of solid piece of wood. It upholds loud amplification enabling you to play in high level volumes. Semi-hollow body guitars have a block of wood located under the top. This gives lots of acoustic sounds and feedbacks with high level of amplification. Hollow-body or jazz guitars play with an electric and acoustic sound and are prone to feedback at higher volumes. Although this type of guitars does not require high amplification, it can be played with an amplifier as well. It is ideal for playing light music like jazz and blu es.The neck of a guitar comes in different shapes like thin, wide thin, C-shaped etc. Consider selecting the one that fits according to the size of your hand for better holding. Selection of wood types influences the weight and tone of a guitar. For example, Mahogany and maple woods are used for making solid body guitars. These mahogany electric guitars provide a warm and round tone whereas maples are strong and denser wood that produces a bright sound.The scale length indicates the vibrating length of a string. It is ascertained by the distance between the nuts and the bridge "saddle". Latest electric guitars utilizes either of the two commonly used scale lengths such as Gibson scale and fender scale. The majority of the electric guitars have 22 frets. However, if you need to play in high record, a 24-fret neck is considered good. It provides you full octave above the 12th fret.Bridges are classified into two types i.e., tremolo bridge and stoptail bridge. Tremolo bridge or whammy bar enables you to bend all the strings right away. But this type can put the strings out of tune. A stoptail or a non-tremolo bridge is well balanced and offers a constant tuning as it is fixed to the body.Generally, all electric guitars have two types of pickups. The pickup adjacent to the neck offers thicker sound and the other one near the bridge creates more of a treble sound. Also consider choosing the pickups with switches like a 3-position or 5-position switches that blends or allows you to choose between the pickups.Choosing the right tuning machine plays a vital role. Unlike open tuning machines, these machine heads prevents from getting rust and airborne corrosion. As a result it reduces replacement and maintenance costs.
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