The Staff
The spaces of the treble staff spell this.
What is F A C E?
These pick up the vibrations of the strings, sending the signal to the amp.
What are pickups?
The vertical lines on a chord chart represent these.
What are the strings?
The part of the finger that should be touching the strings.
What is the tip of the finger?
An acronym for the names of the strings.
What is Eddie Ate Dynamite, Good Bye Eddie.
An acronym for the lines on the staff.
What is "Elvis' Guitar Broke Down Friday"?
These are on the headstock. Turning them will change the pitch of the strings.
What are tuning keys?
The number in a circle tell you this.
What is which finger to use?
This is where your thumb should be.
On the middle-back of the neck.
The numbers you see in guitar tab represent which of these to play.
What are numbers?
The symbol found at the beginning of the staff.
What is a treble clef?
The lines that go across the neck. The space between them gets smaller as you go up the neck towards the body of the guitar.
What are frets? (or fret-lines)
These tell you which strings to NOT play.
What are the X's?
You should angle your guitar in this direction slightly.
What is upward?
This is a type of movable chord that includes only the root note and the fifth. You only strum the 3 strings that it is on.
What is a power chord? (or G5 chord)
The treble staff has this many lines.
What is 5?
This allows you to play while standing up.
What is a guitar strap?
You'll see this above an open string.
What is a circle?
You should assume this posture while playing.
What is sitting up straight (yet relaxed)?
This is a way of reading music with just the lyrics and the chord symbols.
What is a lead sheet?
Two numbers that indicate how many beats are in each measure.
What is a time signature?
You hold this to strum if you don't want to use you fingers.
What is a pick?
The horizontal lines represent these.
What are the frets?
Strumming mostly involves this part of the arm.
What is the wrist?
This type of note is only worth 2 counts.
What is a half-note?