Flashcards: Guitars

Slide guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar.

An effects unit or pedal is an electronic or digital device that alters how a musical instrument or other audio source sounds.

Shred guitar or shredding is a virtuoso lead guitar solo playing style for the guitar, based on various fast playing techniques.

Air guitar is a form of dance and movement in which the performer pretends to play an imaginary rock or heavy metal-style electric guitar, including riffs, solos, etc.

Finger vibrato is vibrato produced on a string instrument by cyclic hand movements.

Guitar tunings assign pitches to the open strings of guitars, including acoustic guitars, electric guitars and classical guitars, among others.

A guitar synthesizer (also guitar synth, alternatively guitar-synthesizer, guitar-synth, guitar/synthesizer, guitar/synth, g-synth or synth guitar) is any one of a number of musical instrument systems that allow a guitar player to play synthesizer sound.

The ukulele (/juːkəˈleɪliː/ yoo-kə-LAY-lee, from Hawaiian: ʻukulele [ˈʔukuˈlɛlɛ] (oo-koo-leh-leh); variant: ukelele), sometimes abbreviated to uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments; it generally employs four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings.

In music, tremolo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtrɛːmolo]), or tremolando ([tremoˈlando]), is a trembling effect.

A variety of mechanical vibrato systems for guitar have been developed since the 1930s.

Wah-wah (or wa-wa) is an imitative word (or onomatopoeia) for the sound of altering the resonance of musical notes to extend expressiveness, sounding much like a human voice saying the syllable wah.

A guitar speaker is a loudspeaker – specifically the driver (transducer) part – designed for use in a combination guitar amplifier (in which a loudspeaker and an amplifier are installed in a wooden cabinet) of an electric guitar, or for use in a guitar speaker cabinet.

Drop D tuning, also known as DADGBE (from lowest to highest string), is an alternative, or scordatura, form of guitar tuning — specifically, a dropped tuning — in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down ("dropped") from the usual E of standard tuning (EADGBE, from lowest to highest string) by one whole step / a tone (2 frets) to D.

Heavy metal guitar (or simply metal guitar) is the use of highly-amplified electric guitar in heavy metal.

A multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks.

A musical instrument of the chordophone family, the lyre-guitar was a type of guitar shaped like a lyre.

Stars and Their Guitars: A History of the Electric Guitar is a documentary film by filmmaker Kent Hagen.

A guitar battle (or guitar duel) is where two or more guitar players take turns soloing, either with or without a rhythm section.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to guitars: Guitar – plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick.

A classical guitar with additional strings is a nylon-string or gut-string classical guitar with more than six strings, in which the additional strings pass over a fingerboard so that they may be "stopped" or fretted with the fingers.