Electric Guitar Parts

Note that electric guitar parts can look differently on different instruments.

The main difference in electric guitar structure is that not all electric guitars have a whammy bar.

Whammy bar (also called tremolo arm or vibrato unit) allows to change string tension on the fly by pushing and pulling a lever. It gives a lot of possibilities to perform mad guitar tricks, especially often encountered in heavy metal music, and also vibrate whole chords.

Example of a whammy bar trick

So if you don't have a guitar yet and you're on the way to buy one, consider first if you'll need a whammy bar, because adding a whammy bar to a guitar that originally does not have it can turn to be horribly tedious work.

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