Special Terms We Use!

As a member of Ultimate-Guitar.com there are many terms that you should know to be successful.

 The Neck: The part of the guitar that your hand holds down the strings.

Fret: A fret is one of the sections of a guitar on the neck that separates the different notes to be played by the musician

Tab: A tab is a form of sheet music made specifically for written down guitar music. There are 6 lines symbolizing the actual strings on the guitar. The numbers on the strings are what frets are needed to be pressed down to play the note that the tab is referring to. Here is an example of what a tab looks like.

Pickups: They are the part of the guitar the lies underneath the strings where you pick them. These pickups are only on electric guitars and are used to send musical signals out to an amplifier to produce the sounds to be much loader.

Those are basically the main terms you will need to know if you want to succeed in this discourse community!