The History of the Electric Guitar | 1920 - 2019

In this video I take you through the history and evolution of the electric guitar.

This video was made before I started studying history at University and uses poor methodology. Much of it heavily references Wikipedia. This video is not a reliable source of historical information.

Yes the solo at the end is a tad cringe-worthy, but I'll keep it in for your enjoyment.

Special Thanks to Gitarren Total for allowing me to film in their Wonderful Store!

00:00 – Introduction & The Problems with Acoustic Guitars
01:56 – Early attempts & The Frying Pan
02:54 – The Rickenbacker Guitars
04:00 – Hollow & Semi-Hollow Body Guitars
05:55 – Les Pauls Log
07:54 – The Gibson Les Paul
10:39 – The Fender Telecaster
12:42 – The Fender Stratocaster
15:20 – The Frankenstrat and Super-Strats
19:07 – Extended Range & Headless Guitars
19:41 – The Fender Acoustasonic Telecaster
20:12 – Relish Electric Guitars
21:28 – Outro & Guitar Solo

[LeandroCapstick]

This video was made before I started studying history at University and uses poor methodology. Much of it heavily references Wikipedia. This video is not a reliable source of historical information.

Yes the solo at the end is a tad cringe-worthy, but I'll keep it in for your enjoyment.

[qui-gonjim]

Thanks so much bro
I just credited you for my 5, 000-word essay on the entire history of the guitar 👍
You really helped with the last century of development and trends.

[smitsonavane]

Why aren't you famous
This is the perfect video

It explains guitars properly
It's not too long
Many models which we we know are explained
Nice artist examples

And
Cool riffs on the side

Only one thing
You left out Brian May


But I thoroughly enjoyed it
Keep it up nice work dude

[jozsefizsak]

I'm tremendously impressed by the very logical analysis and overall quality of this video. You're a master!

[tomlebron]

Amazing video! Made 20 minutes feel like 5.

[Hungry_Hunter]

The humbucker is two single coil pickups usually wired in series with opposite magnetic poles one the top. The humbucker was originally made by Rickenbacker about 10 years before Ray Butts patent application for his pickups. For reason's known only to Rickenbacker they didn't bother to apply for a patent.

[snapdragon]

Hell yeah, nice outro! Great video. Keep it up.

[GarfNora]

this is most underrated video i have EVER seen on youtube, like IT'S SO GOOD!!1!!1

[sergeantspam]

Amazing timeline man. You really covered everything without going way too overboard on detail like I have seen other people do.

[i_suck_at_guitar]

The intro is way cooler when showing all the legendary guitarist of the years i love it, it's awesome!!

[onemoremood]

4:25
the full metal jacket clip was perfectly placed!!! hahaha

[njapostol]

The strat didn’t have a 5 way switch until later on. People would jam match sticks in the 3 way to get the 4th position without the switch flicking to the middle or neck position. I’ve actually done this on a 54 model

[michaelbarbarelli]

I have to say that this was a fantastic production. Thank you.

[JayBartlett]

Great doc my friend, I have learned a ton. Thank you for your efforts

[shovelheadseven]

Great documentary! There were a couple of people left out. One being Paul Bigsby who built the Merle Travis solid body in 1948. The other being O.W. Appleton who in 1941 built a solid body electric guitar that resembles what today is a Les Paul. Gibson rejected it when they were presented with it as they did with Les Paul the year prior. These were all before the Broadcaster surfaced.

[sandoncrowder]

Gibson actually had to convince Les to go with them because he had been playing Epiphone for so long, and the very first Les Pauls were actually epiphone but just had Gibson on the headstock

[vrtexbeater]

Amazing video, thanks for sharing! I played it on my TV as I was cleaning and changing the strings an old electric guitar a friend gave to my dad, I'll start my classes next week.

[KipperSkipp]

Oh my god. Why aren't you famous? This video is really good!

[theenclaveradiostation]

Very high quality, You should do more of this

[danierinash]

Nice video dude, very informative and some nice playing in there too! I enjoyed this :)