Guitars

Guitars

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Guitars

A mechanical barre that attaches to the neck of a guitar by means of a string, spring, elastic or nylon band, or a lever and thumbscrew arrangement. The capo can be used to raise the key of a song to ...

Barre chord

Musical equipment; Guitars

From the French term barré. The technique of placing the left hand index finger over two to six strings in the fingering of a chord. The great advantage of using barre chords is that they are ...

Bending

Musical equipment; Guitars

The act of pushing or pulling a string sideways across the a fret to raise the pitch of a note by a half to full tone or more. Used extensively in rock and blues playing as well as in jazz.

Inversion

Musical equipment; Guitars

Structuring a chord with a note other than the root as the lowest note.

Lead guitar

Musical equipment; Guitars

The part played by a guitar soloist in a rock band.

Harmonics

Musical equipment; Guitars

Chime-like sounds achieved in two ways: 1) natural harmonics - by touching a string at any equidistant division of the string length (typically 5th, 7th, and 12th fret), directly above the fret with ...

Chorus

Musical equipment; Guitars

Strictly speaking, the portion of a song lyric or melody that is repeated, often with other voices joining in. In jazz improvisation, however, "playing a chorus" would mean taking a turn improvising ...