The Guitar
Guitar Technique
Notes on the Guitar
Rhythm
General Guitar
100

What are the thin metal lines going across the neck of the guitar to seperate it into sections?

Fret markers

100

What is it called when you use your palm to stop the strings from making sound?

a palm mute
100
The first and sixth strings both share this note name.
What is E
100

What is the number of beats that are in one measure (in 4/4 time)

4

100

What type of guitar does not need to be plugged in?

Acoustic

200

What is the empty circle in the body of the guitar through which sound travels

the sound hole

200

What two fingers do you use to hold the pick most commonly?

Thumb and index

200
What is a useful expression to represent all of the open strings of the guitar, in order.
What is Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie
200

What way do you strum on each beat?

Down

200

The number of strings on a typical classical guitar

What is 6

300

What are the six knobs on the head of the guitar that adjust the pitch of the strings.

the tuning pegs

300

What is it called when you pluck the strings separately with different fingers?

fingerpicking

300

The note on the first string at the first fret.

What is F

300

What is the strumming pattern use use for pairs of eighth notes (on the beat)

Down Up

300

What is the type of guitar that needs to be plugged in to hear it?

An electric guitar

400

What is the piece at the bottom of the strings that attaches the strings to the guitar.

 the bridge

400

What does strumming several strings at once create?

 a chord

400

The note on the low E string at the fifth fret

What is A

400

How do you count a full measure of quarter notes?

1 2 3 4

400

What is it called when a song is written out with the chords above where they should be strummed?

A chord chart

500
On an electric guitar, this is the part that receives the audio signal and converts it into an electric signal to be amplified

The pickups

500
A type of chord played by laying your first finger across 5 or 6 strings (hint: the F chord is an example of this).
What is a barre chord
500

The note on the second string at the second fret.

What is B

500

How do you count a full measure of eighth notes?

1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and

500

The type of note produced by lighting touching a string directly over the fret. (Hint: can only occur naturally at frets 5, 7, and 12)

What is a harmonic.