Guitars

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Transpose

Musical equipment; Guitars

To change the key of a piece of music by a specific interval.

String winder

Musical equipment; Guitars

A swivel device with a handle with a fixture that fits over the tuning keys.

Strumming

Musical equipment; Guitars

Performed with a pick or the fingers. Generally consists of brushing across 2-6 strings in a rhythmic up and down fashion appropriate to the tune being played.

Tablature or tab

Musical equipment; Guitars

A system of writing music for fretted instruments whereby a number or letter appears on lines representing the strings, indicating the fret to be played.

Arpeggio

Musical equipment; Guitars

A broken chord, usually played evenly low to high and back again.

Arrangement

Musical equipment; Guitars

The setting of an original or standard tune for a given solo instrument or group of instruments.

Hammer-on

Musical equipment; Guitars

A note sounded literally by "hammering" down with a left hand finger, often performed in conjunction with a note first plucked by the right hand on the same string.