Guitar sections
Which section has the smallest guitar
Alto 1
This is the thickest and lowest pitch string on the guitar
6th string
This technique involves striking the string with the picking hand’s finger instead of a pick
Finger picking
This singer-guitarist is known for songs like shape of you
Ed Sheeran
This is the most common scale used in rock and blues solos, built from the 1st, 3rd (minor), 4th, 5th, and 7th (minor) degrees of the natural minor scale
minor pentatonic scale
This section usually plays chords
Prime
How many strings are there in a guitar
6
The term for playing chords by dragging a finger across multiple strings
Strumming
This female guitarist is know for songs like you belong to me
TS
In chord construction, these are the two most important notes (the 3rd and 7th) that define whether a chord is major, minor, or dominant.
guide tones
This section often plays the melody
Alto one
This process involves tightening or loosening strings
Tuning
Rapidly alternating between two notes using hammer-ons and pull-off
Trill
This deaf composer wrote Für Elise
Beethoven
This is the basic set of notes that most beginners learn first: A B C D E F G.
Musical alphabet
This section is known for filling in the middle harmony of the ensemble
Alto two
This tool is commonly clipped onto the guitar headstock
Tuner
This style of guitar playing, popular in flamenco and metal, involves using the fingernails or fingertips to strike the strings.
rasgueado
This film composer wrote the music for Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone and star wars
John Williams
The distance between two notes, such as a whole step (two frets) or half step (one fret).
An interval
This section is responsible for keeping harmonic support steady
Bass
This is the standard tuning of guitar strings from lowest to highest
E A D G B E
This advanced technique involves lightly touching the string at a harmonic node (usually 12th, 7th, or 5th fret) while plucking to produce a bell-like chime instead of a normal note
natural harmonic
This guitarist was famous for playing electric guitar with his teeth
Jimi Hendrix
This scale has 7 notes and is the foundation for most Western music (do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti).
Major scale