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"In this series we're going to talk about the pickups of the guitar. In specific, the pickups on electric guitars. This is a hollow body guitar and these pickups here are called humbucker pickups. Not to get too technical about the electricity involved, but, they would run a figure eight pattern within this box here. Now, these will generate a certain type of tone which works well for this guitar, and you'll also notice, up here, this is the pickup selector switch. This will determine which of these pickups are used. Under the string, depending on where the pickup is, you'll get a different tone. Right up here you'll get a very crisp tone, up here it's a little more mellow. So, the placement of the pickups has a lot to do with the sound. If you have it all the way down, it'll just be one of the pickups. If you have it in the middle, it'll be both. And, if you have it all the way up, it'll just be one of the others. Now, let's look at the electric guitar. This guitar is single coil pickups and these just run circular pattern. It's the same idea, a little different tone in these pickups, all pickups are different tones, and the pickup selector has five choices now. Either just one of the pickups, a pair of the pickups, the center pickups, these two pickups, or just the neck."
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