The Electrifying Power of the Electric Guitar
Guitars stand to be one of the most popular of musical instruments in the world, versatile and applicable to almost all popular genres of music today.
Electric guitars, a type of guitar, stand to be the most popular of guitar types, standing side by side with acoustic guitars. Basically electric guitars, require electric powered amplifiers for them to successfully operate. They differ from regular acoustic guitars in the sense that acoustic guitars could work, with or without an amplifier, while electric guitars need amplifiers for them to work. Archtops, a class of electric guitars, are special electric guitars which are made with hollow bodies, allowing for the same acoustic resonance featured by acoustic guitars, though not exactly the same sound produced by acoustic guitars. There is also a bass guitar class of electric guitars, which often come with four strings. The strings of electric bass guitars are bigger compared to the standard line of electric guitars, allowing bass electric guitars to play really low notes. There are also five and six string versions of bass electric guitars.
Basically, no electric guitar is comparable to that of an acoustic guitar. Electric guitars are also never played in unamplified performances, as electric guitars really require amplifiers for them to work. Electric guitars sound totally different from acoustic guitars, and could be used with specialized equipment, allowing for special sound effects, like distortions, which are quite popular with rock and roll music, as well as with speed metal music genres and death metal music genres. Electric guitars, just like acoustic guitars, have a poor sustain, but with the use of specialized amplification effects, especially overdrive, increased sustain is possible to achieve. Also, electric guitars, as not hindered by the "space" design of acoustic guitars, could be shaped in different shapes, allowing for more comfortable playing. The Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul style stand to be the two most popular of basic shapes when talking about electric guitar shapes.
The strings used in electric guitars are typically thinner, compared to acoustic guitars. This is because the strings in electric guitars don't necessarily need to resonate as much as the strings in acoustic guitars do. The strings of electric guitars are also closer to the guitar's neck, which requires less force to press them down. To consider an electric guitar's amplifier as the second part of an electric guitar wouldn't be entirely wrong, as the amplifier of electric guitars basically makes up the sound of electric guitars.
So there you have it. A general look of the electrifying power of an electric guitar.
