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. The neck of the guitar is the long wooden piece of wood, flat on one side (this is called the fretboard) and curved on the other.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.
