This upper part of the guitar is called the head. This is where the tensions on the strings are controlled by the little fins seen in the image, and are set to what best fits for the player. Of course over time shredding on a guitar starts to get out of tune and has to be readjusted again. For the pros that's easy to do, but for us amateurs there's this little device called a tuner, it comes in many varieties, and it helps to get the guitar back to its awesomeness.

This next part is called the neck and as you can see the strings run down it. From the left the strings are thicker and heading to the right they start to get thinner. The metallic piece perpendicular to the strings are known as the frets.

The huge part of the guitar is called the body and as you can see to the left there is allot more stuff. The circular knobs are for the volume and tones. The oval thing is the jack input for amps. Where the strings end is called the string saddle and the three black rectangular strips are your pickups.

If your familiar with an acoustic guitar verses an electric guitar then you could point out the big difference...its the hole in the body. That hole is what makes the sound when you pluck the strings on an acoustic guitar, but there isn't one on the electric guitar. So how to make music with it?...you have those pickups that transfer it through the jack input and through the amp. Of course there are a couple of issues when trying to keep the guitar in the finest condition as possible. Through experience and noticing from reading couple of articles there are a few easy do-it-yourself problems such as; tuning it (basically the sound isn't tuned right) and "scratchy spot" (where dust and dirt builds up on the inside of volume and tone knobs). There are a few areas where it is most difficult to fix when maintaining the it which are; humidity (depending on your location the lost of moisture from the guitar results it to bow the body, shrink the neck, and give it some cracks) and neck bowing (over time they tend to bow and are very complicated to fix so let the pros do that part).

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