Guitar Glossary

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Guitar Glossary

A list of guitar terminology - the essential reference for guitar students!



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Alternate Picking: Continuously alternating between downstrokes and upstrokes whilst picking. So you are picking Up-Down-Up-Down-Up etc.

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Sweep Picking: A type of picking where you "sweep" the pick through the strings, So if you where playing a 5 string arpeggion your picking would go: Down-Down-Down-Down-Up-Up-Up-Up etc.

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Vibrato: A technique where you add expressiveness to the note by quickly bending it back and forth.

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Whammy Bar: A bar attached to the bridge of a guitar that changes the pitch of the string by altering the tension.

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