Guitar Anatomy
The number of strings on a modern guitar.
What is six?
Name the following note that is natural.
B - C# - F/ - Ab
What is B?
The name of the 2nd open string on guitar.
What is the open B string?
The standard tuning from lowest to highest.
E - A - D - G - B - e
This tool shortens the length of strings and changes the key that you are playing in.
What is a capo?
This part of the guitar amplifies the sound of an acoustic guitar.
What is the sound hole?
The name of the music note located on the first fret of the low E string.
What is F?
This hand is referred to as the "fretting hand."
What is the left hand?
Strumming all of the strings in one motion with more pressure.
What is accented strumming?
The term for the metal strips that mark the spaces on the guitar neck.
What are frets?
The number of beats an eighth note receives.
What is 1/2?
The correct notation for a C major chord on a lead sheet.
What is C?
A half step is played this way on a guitar.
What is moving one fret forward or back?
Sharp = RAISE the note
Flat = LOWER the note
A stroke that doesn't make a sound, but sets up to play the next strum.
What is a ghost stroke?
This part of the guitar holds the strings in place at the headstock.
What is the nut?
The trick for remembering the Space notes and the Line notes in the treble clef.
What is FACE?
What is Every Good Boy Does Fine?
Which of the following is the name of a guitar chord?
C minus - D7 - F^ - Aam
What is D7?
Tablature (TAB) shows you this.
What is a physical or graphical representation of the guitar fretboard?
This is the best technique for muting the strings while playing.
What is palm muting?
The bridge of the guitar serves this purpose.
It sits at the base of the sound hole and holds the strings in place on the body.
A staccato note is _____ and a legato note is ______.
What is short and separated and what is smooth and connected?
Name the four different Barre chord shapes.
What is E, Em, A, and Am?
The difference in between the way a major and a minor chord sound.
What is a major chord sounding happy and a minor chord sounding sad?
Name the three common guitar scale types that we have played in this class (Guitar II).
What is major, chromatic, and pentatonic?