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The electric guitar has only been around for about 70 years or so. Not nearly as long as the acoustic and classical guitars. The electric guitar has greatly evolved to where it is today substantially. We'll go over the history of the electric guitar in this article. The history of guitars have been around for thousands of years. The electric guitar was first manufactured in the 1930s by Rickenbacker. The original electric guitars used tungsten pickups. Pickups basically convert the vibration of the strings into electrical current, which is then fed into the amplifier to produce the the sound. The earliest electric guitars featured smaller soundholes in the body. These guitars are known as semi-hollow body electric guitars and are still somewhat popular today. Mainly due to the fact that they are flexible guitars. However, with the use of pickups, it was possible to create guitars without soundholes (like the acoustic and classical guitars have) that still had the ability to be heard, if plugged into amplifiers. These guitars are called solid body electric guitars.

The electric guitar's popularity began to increase during the "Big Band" era of the '30s and 40s. Due to the loudness of the brass sections in most jazz orchestras, it was necessary to have guitars that could be heard above those sections. Electric guitars, with the ability to be plugged into amplifiers, filled this particular void. The electric guitar that is the most prevalent today is the solid body electric guitar. The solid body guitar was created by the musician and inventor Les Paul in 1941. It is a guitar made of solid wood with no soundholes. The original solid body guitar created by Paul was very plain, it was a simple rectangular block of wood connected to a neck with six steel strings. Les Paul's original solid body guitar shape has of course changed from the original rectangular shape to the more rounded shape Les Paul guitars have today.

During the 1950's, Gibson introduced Les Paul's invention to the world. The Gibson Les Paul as it was and still is called today, quickly became a very popular electric guitar. It has remained the most popular guitar for over 50 years. Around the same time period of time, another inventor named Leo Fender came up with a solid body electric guitar of his own.

In the late 1940s, Fender introduced the Fender Broadcaster Electric guitar. The Broadcaster which was renamed the Stratocaster, was officially introduced to the public in 1954. The Strat, as it is now known today, was a very different guitar in comparison to the Les Paul. It had a different shape, some different hardware and was significantly lighter. Fender's Stratocaster electric guitar is the second most popular guitar in the world, second to only the Les Paul guitar. Over the years other companies such as Ibanez, Jackson, Paul Reed Smith, ESP and Yamaha have all produced solid body electric guitars of their own. However, most electric guitars still feature the familiar shape of a Les Paul or the Strat guitar.

Also, most people start off with some sort of magazine for your electric guitar. Guitar World is the #1 guitar magazine in the world. Every issue provides subscribers with the truth about the latest gear and albums on the market, and offers broad-ranging interviews that cover technique, instruments and lifestyles.

This is my first foray into blogging. I have always wanted to learn how to play electric guitar since I was in high school. My interest just picked up a lot while I was overseas, so "The Wife" bought me a starter pack to begin with. Not the highest quality, but for a beginner, it will do and it was a Fender.

To anybody who may be reading this, I know this seems a lot like Mr. Ed Dale's from the 30DC. However, I have just gotten back from overseas and did not find out about this until close to the day it started. When I saw the first day's video, I had a couple of things in mind, but wanted to really do something with electric guitars because this was my new interest. I really got a late start because I went back and did the whole preseason in like 3 days or so to catch up. So, this is how the blog about electric guitars came about.

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