Learn Guitar Glossary
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- The height of the strings above the fret board.
- A style of playing where the right hand alternates between two or more strings.
- A chord played one note at a time.
- A sub division of time in music.
- A vertical line which shows the end of a bar of music.
- A right hand technique which involves picking a bass note then strumming the rest of the chord.
- A horizontal line which shows two eighth or sixteenth notes belonging to the beat shown on the bottom of the time signature.
- A sub division of time usually felt as the pulse within a piece of music.
- The main part of a guitar (not the neck).
- A group of three or more notes played simultaneously.
- A diagram which shows a chord progression.
- A sequence of chords played one after another.
- A count at the start of a piece of music to show when to start and how fast to play (usually the top number on the time signature).
- Two vertical lines which show the end of a section or piece of music.
- Right hand movement from top to bottom.
- Electronic foot pedals for altering the sound of an electric guitar.
- A beat half as long in time as a quarter beat.
- A guitar which can be electrically amplified (usually with a solid body).
- A right hand technique which involves using some or all your right hand fingers.
- Lower in pitch.
- A time signature of four quarter beats in one bar of music.
- The front side of a guitar neck which contains the frets.
- The vertical metal bars on a guitar fret board.
- Placing a finger next to a fret.
- A system of reading and writing guitar music (abbreviated to TAB).
- A beat twice as long as a quarter beat.
- To bring two or notes together in harmony.
- Two or more notes sounding simultaneously.
- The part of a guitar situated on the end of the neck which houses the machine heads.
- Used for tuning up each string and housed on the headstock (sometimes referred to as tuning heads or tuning keys).
- A succession of musical notes played one after another (usually the most recognizable tune of a song).
- The part of a guitar which houses the fret board.
- An acoustic guitar which has three nylon strings.
- A string played with no left hand fingers fretting any note.
- A chord which contains open strings.
- An electromagnet housed underneath the strings on an electric guitar which produces a signal to be amplified by a guitar amplifier.
- A small triangular shaped piece of plastic used for striking the guitar strings with the right hand.
- A sub division of time in music twice as long as an eighth beat.
- Two dots placed before a double line indicating the repeat of a section of music.
- A sequence of events played with the right hand on a guitar which gives a piece of music a distinct beat.
- A system of reading and writing music which shows rhythm.
- The note by which a chord or scale is named (Usually the deepest note in the chord, and always the first note in a scale).
- Higher in pitch.
- A rhythm of which each main beat is divided into three smaller beats (prominent in blues music).
- The hole in the front of an acoustic guitar body from which the sound is projected.
- An acoustic guitar which has all steel strings (usually four wound and two plain ones).
- The vertical line in music or rhythm notation which appears above or below a note or rhythm.
- Used to hold the guitar while in standing position.
- A technique where the right hand plays the noted of a chord simultaneously either with down or up strokes.
- A rhythm in music in which the down beat is felt slightly longer than the up beat (sometimes called a shuffle).
- The speed of a piece of music.
- A time signature of three quarter beats in one bar of music.
- A beat which is one and a half times as long as a half beat.
- A curved line which shows two notes of the same pitch joined together and played as one with the time value of both.
- A sign at the beginning of a piece of music (looks like a fraction) which shows how many beats in each bar (top number) and how long each beat lasts (bottom number).
- A curved metal bar implanted into the neck of a guitar used to adjust the amount and direction of bend in the neck.
- A time signature of twelve eighth beats in one bar of music.
- Right hand movement from bottom to top.
- Part of the body of a guitar which is smallest in dimension from top to bottom.
- A beat in music which lasts for a whole bar in music with a time signature of four/four.
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