The first thing I want you to learn are the parts of the guitar. Check out the diagram below for an overview.
As you can see, it all starts with the headstock right at the top. This describes the part of the guitar that is attached to the slimmer neck of the instrument.
Then there are the tuners. As the name suggests, the tuners are used to tune the instrument, or to adjust the pitch of each string. After the tuners, we move on to the nut. This is found between the headstock and the neck of the guitar. It is sometimes made of plastic or bone and contains six small grooves to guide each string up to the tuners.
In learning how to play electric guitar, a lot of focus will be placed on the next part we shall talk about, none other but the neck of the guitar. This is where you will be placing your fingers a lot and holding different positions to create different notes.
The neck of the guitar is attached to the body. On the body of your electric guitar, you will find pickups. These are almost like microphones. They pick up, or capture the sound of the instrument so they can be amplified. (If you've got an acoustic or acoustic/electric guitar, your guitar would come with a sound hole. This hole is found on the body of the guitar and is meant to amplifier the sound of the guitar.) Electric guitars replace this part with pick-ups.
There's a pickup switch located on the body of the guitar used to select different pickups for different tones and sounds.(http://www.electric-guitars-guide.com/how-to-play-electric-guitar-2.html)
