Hello dear readers. Today it occurs to me talk about this wonderful musical instrument is the guitar. I really do not know how to play well, yet I Like much despite not really practical.
The guitar is currently in two shows mainly classical, and electric, the main difference between the two is what comes to be the body of the guitar.
As you can see basically two types of guitars are very similar, having a neck with frets to press the strings and give us the different tones, a body to hold a fork, 6 string stressed and sometimes as in this example, until the shape is similar. However we can see that the traditional guitar has a hole in the middle and body is hollow, while the power we have in place the hole (the mouth of the guitar) a pair of metal plates (which are the pills, a type of microphones that are responsible for detecting the vibration of the strings and amplified through a, forgive the repetition, amplifier, that is what makes the role of the speaker of her older sister.
The most widely used guitar in genres like blues, rock and flamenco, and quite common in singers. It is also used in genres such as rancheras and gruperas addition to the folklore of various countries, we also have that almost any current music using the guitar in some of their forms.
family instruments are guitar and bass guitar requinto. The latter is often used by mariachis.
There are currently two theories about its origin, one is Greco-Roman, a descendant of the fidícula, distorted sitar and then taken to Spain, and the other which is why the more I go, is that is of Arabic origin, brought to Spain by the Moors during the Muslim rule.
There are several types of guitar, we can find, not necessarily lso two guys I mentioned (which are more easily distinguishable) delving into this, mainly we talked about the guitar classical or English, which is what everyone in Mexico we know, the typical figure-8 guitar, wooden, with 6 nylon strings (or cat-gut) and mouth (the hole), other types of guitar that can find:
Flamenco Guitar: A little smaller than the classic, has a different construction and other materials used for construction, which varies its sound is more percussive (and sometimes flamenco guitarist plays time impacts hitting the body of the guitar gently). It is easily distinguished because the tuning pegs are wood, not metal. Western Guitar
: Sometimes also called acoustic guitar but that is redundant because ALL the guitars are acoustic (The utilities also because they produce sounds.) This guitar is developed in the United States is very similar to English, unless there is stringing wire (at which the body is designed more solidly, not a classical guitar that I can put steel strings, certainly burst under pressure). The acoustic guitar designs derived from CF Martin, Orville Gibson, and except for certain elements of strength and design is basically the same as English.
Guitar: In this type there are many variants, there are some with hollow bodies, (ie, have also pills, a sounding board, invented the first acoustic guitar by putting a microphone), solid (such as Les Paul, without sounding boards and sinido is based on) and semisolid (such as Paul McCartney had holes in the form of the integral sign as the violins). The electric guitar always needs to be connected to an amplifier or a PA system, via a cable. Among the known manufacturers of such brands as guitars are Gibson, Fender, Epiphone, Ibanez, PRS, Jackson, Parker, Cort, Yamaha, Squier, Dean, ESP, among others.
electric guitars: It is nothing but an acoustic guitar (English or metal strings) that are added microphones, transducers or pickups, and even allowed to connect, which saves a lot of fights to that record, because the sound is not real, since the microphones are placed inside box, not outside that is where the sound is real.
MIDI Guitars: Not AMS special guitars or adapters for use with a normal guitar MIDIs can do with it.
Baroque Guitar: The Renaissance and Baroque guitars are ancestors of classical guitars. Are more sensitive and produces a weaker sound. They are easier to distinguish from other guitars, because your body is thinner and flat. Guitar
Russian: These guitars contain seven strings instead of six. The tuning of this guitar is completely different from English, it is not just an acoustic guitar with strings attached. Traditionally, it uses an open tuning in G major. (There is also the balalaika)
Bajoquinto and Bajosexto: guitars are you fold the number of strings, each pair set to its normal tone less sharper than doubled in unison, at 12 (the bajosexto) and may omit even more severe (Bajoquinto) widely used in the Norteño music.
fretless guitar (fretless), whose mast is completely smooth, fretless, which the notes are obtained as a cello (the pitch does not come from the fret, but you have to "look"). They are more common fretless bass.
baritone guitar, which has 6 strings but a longer shot.
guitars for learning, small size (size 1 / 2 or 3 / 4), to facilitate their implementation by children
dual guitar fretboard. Designed for playing with two different tunings (alternatively or simultaneously) for the same work, without having to change guitars. Most guitars have a double twelve-string guitar and the other with six strings. There are other versions of the instrument of Mike Rutherford, bassist Genesis, which is a twelve-guitar attached to a low.
The electric guitar headstock, built since the mid-eighties by the company Steinberger. The headstock is located on the bridge of the guitar, instead of being in the head.
The horizontal slide guitar and guitar. It is almost always with the slide or metal or glass tube that covers the entire finger.
7-string guitar. In addition to the 6 strings of a guitar, you incorporate a seventh string, the more severe. The mark for the seventh string is YES. There are also 8-string guitars with the same idea. there are even guitars with other instruments included in the body of the guitar as the guitar that has Pikasso 42 strings (Pat Metheny).
The Foldaxe, folding guitar invented by Roger Field to Chet Atkins to travel (in the book "Me and My Guitars" by Chet Atkins).
The dinarra, microtonal guitar dynamics.
Anyway, there are many and varied. However, the reason that I have more private with the guitars is the series of Anime and Manga 4koma formats (yonkoma) K-ON!. K-ON (O Keion) means something like light music, which rather refers to pop music, which is so popular in Japan. Japanese Pop music has a lot to use electric guitars, bass, drums. Rather, that here in the West would call rock-pop. This story tells of 4 girls (which later they were joined by a fifth) that give free rein to his love of light music.
The characters are great, these 4 girls have a great personality, in particular, my favorite is Yui Hirazawa that is distracted and energetic guitarist, who even sings in a hoarse episode because I practice too much for to sing and play along.
Mio also pleases me greatly Akiyama, our beautiful and some scary bearish, it is left-handed and uses a low-adapted to it. The other characters are Tsumugi Kotobuki on keyboards and that supplies our other heroines of desserts and tea The Ritsu energy Tainaka on drums, and the youngest member of the band is Azusa Nakano also plays guitar and makes him second to Yui (although it seems rather teaches his sempai).
Hokage His band is called Tea Time (HTT for short) which translated something like pipelining Tea time after school. It's a pretty funny anime without too many pretensions, note that the instruments are real, for example, Yui-chan brings a classic Gibson Les Paul Standard in cherry sunburst color, which obtains his very cheap thanks to haggle Mugi (who is the daughter of the owner Store). Mio instruments and Azusa are Fender (a Stratocaster and a Jazz Bass) The battery Ritsu is Yamaha, and Korg keyboard is Mugi.
