Electric guitar
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The Body of the Electric Guitar
The electric guitar can be put in two categories solid body and hollow body.
Hollow Body
Hollow Bodies are usually lighter than a solid body and, of course, are hollow. They have resin holes on the side of the guitar that are similar to one of a violin. Hollow bodies are widely used by jazz guitarists for their warmer tone.
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Solid Body
Solid bodies are usually heavier than a hollow body and, of course, are solid. These guitars are usually used by rock guitarists.
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Pickups can be put in two categories
Pickups
Pickups can be put in two categories: single coil and humbuckers.
Single Coil
A Single Coil is a type of pickup. It composes of a single coil of wires wrapped around magnets (usually found on guitar brands such as Fender). Single coil pickups have a brighter tone than humbuckers.
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Humbuckers
A guitar pickup which uses two identical opposing coils. Each operates in an opposing magnetic field to create a pickup with no hum. So it bucks the hum hence humbucker(usually found on guitar brands such as Gibson). Humbuckers have a heavier tone, preferred by metal guitarists, but they are also suited for electric blues and similar styles.
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How they work
The electric guitar has pickups that pick up the vibration of the string(s) plucked and sends that through the cable to the amplifier producing the sound you hear.
