This type of electric guitar is the most popular style of electric guitar, especially with beginners. Jimi Hendrix played a left handed model almost exclusively.
What is a Fender Stratocaster?
100
Famous for his unconventional performance techniques, this rock and roll legend became an international sensation with his performance of "Hey Joe" at the Monterey Pop Festival. Sadly, his fame was short lived. He died four years later from a drug overdose.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
100
These are the letter names of the guitar strings, starting with string 6 and ending with string 1.
What is E, A, D, G, B, E?
100
This bar is used to raise and lower the pitch of the electric guitar.
What is a whammy bar?
200
A bar line appears at the end of each measure of music. This type of line appears at the end of each piece.
What is a double bar line?
200
A relative of the electric guitar, this instrument can raise or lower the pitch of a string through a combination of depressed knee levers and foot pedals.
What is a pedal steel guitar?
200
This individual was the lead guitarist for Nirvana and died tragically in 1994.
Who is Kurt Cobain?
200
When this symbol is placed in front of a pitch, it lowers the pitch by a half step.
What is a flat?
200
This is fancy name for a guitar pick. Believe it or not, they were once made from guinea hen quills.
What is a plectrum?
300
With a time signature or three-four, this type of note is worth one beat.
What is a quarter note?
300
If you like Skrillex, then soloing on this instrument is for you! This instrument is an electric guitar with buttons in place of strings and a touch screen control panel. It's a guitar and a synthesizer rolled into one!
What is a Kitara?
300
Arguably one of the most influential guitarist still living today, this individual certainly has an "appetite for destruction" and shoplifting his wardrobe.
Who is Slash?
300
When this symbol appears in front of a pitch, the pitch of that note is raise by a half step.
What is a sharp?
300
Responsible for projecting the sound of the electric guitar, this piece of equipment's abbreviated name is also a vocabulary term in Science class.
What is an Amplifier?
400
This type of scale is comprised of a series of whole and half steps. The pattern is whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half to be exact.
What is a major scale?
400
An early predecessor to the guitar, this pear shaped stringed instrument gained popularity during the middle ages and the renaissance. Unlike the guitar, this instruments has numerous strings and a neck that is bent at a 90-degree angle.
What is a Lute?
400
George Beauchamp and Adolf Rickenbacker are credited as the true inventors of the electric guitar. Their first electric guitar is named after this household item.
What is a frying pan?
400
Not to be confused with legal mumbo jumbo, these chords contain fingerings that require playing multiple strings with one finger. You'll have to have to know this one to pass the "exam."
What is a barre chord?
400
When temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent occurs in music, causing the emphasis to shift from a strong accented beat to a weak accented beat, we give it this name name.
What is syncopation?
500
In this key signature, there are seven beats in a measure and the eighth note receives the beat.
What is seven-eight?
500
When the guitar "assaulted the music scene" in the late 1950's, its primarily role was not as a soloist but as this type of guitar player.
What is a rhythmic guitarist?
500
This King of Rock and Roll was typically filmed from the waist up on TV due to his hip wiggling.
Who is Elvis Presley?
500
When playing A in second position on the high E-string, what finger do you use?
What is your first finger?
500
This is the term given to two notes that are written differently, but when played, sound the same pitch. Basically, they sound exactly the same, they just have different names.