To play your guitar, sit up in a straight-backed chair or stool.If you're right handed, you'll play the guitar by strumming about halfway between the sound hole and the bridge with your right hand and fretting the strings on the neck with your left hand. Before you start wailing like Hendrix, make sure you're holding your guitar correctly. An acoustic guitar will have a sound hole in the body where the sound will resonate, while an electric guitar will have as many as three magnetic pickups which will channel the sound through an amplifier.
The fretboard is inlaid with metal frets that demarcate the different notes. On an acoustic guitar, the strings are fixed to the bridge with removable pegs, and on an electric guitar the strings are generally strung through an eyelet. The wooden body resonates that sound to create the warm tones we associate with a guitar. Copper-wound strings vibrate to create sound. Whether you're playing an electric or an acoustic guitar, the instrument is essentially wood and metal.
