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  2. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Nicknamed - "Papa-Papa". DADDAD is common in folk music (Irish, Scottish), and for the execution of a rhythm guitar in "heavy" (alternative music) on 6th on the third string at the same time. To reach the tuning from DADGAD, Open D or Open D Minor, the G string is dropped to D so that the 3rd and 4th strings are tuned to the same pitch.

  3. Guitar picking - Wikipedia

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    Flatpicking is a technique for playing a guitar using a guitar pick held between two or three fingers to strike the strings. The term flatpicking occurs with other instruments, but is probably best known in the context of playing an acoustic guitar with steel strings —particularly in bluegrass music and old-time country music .

  4. Shred guitar - Wikipedia

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    A lick in guitar playing consists of a short sequence of notes which form a phrase. One famous example of this concept is "The Lick", which is a commonly used jazz phrase based on the minor scale. In shredding, licks become more complex by including advanced guitar techniques. Playing licks at fast tempos also adds complexity.

  5. Barre chord - Wikipedia

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    Commonly used in both popular and classical music, barre chords are frequently used in combination with "open" chords, where the guitar's open (unfretted) strings construct the chord. Playing a chord with the barre technique slightly affects tone quality. A closed, or fretted, note sounds slightly different from an open, unfretted, string.

  6. Guitar chord - Wikipedia

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    Only two or three frets are needed for the guitar chords—major, minor, and dominant sevenths—which are emphasized in introductions to guitar-playing and to the fundamentals of music. [92] [93] Each major and minor chord can be played on exactly two successive frets on exactly three successive strings, and therefore each needs only two fingers.

  7. Nine-string guitar - Wikipedia

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    Tosin Abasi of Animals as Leaders uses a 9-string guitar in standard tuning for the song "Private Visions of the World". [5] Stephen Carpenter of Deftones began using an ESP 9-string on their 2020 album Ohms. [6] Rob Scallon plays a Schecter C-9 guitar on his songs "Envy" [7] and "Royale". [8] Joshua Travis plays a Legator 9-String Guitar in "I ...

  8. Fingering (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, fingering, or on stringed instruments sometimes also called stopping, is the choice of which fingers and hand positions to use when playing certain musical instruments. Fingering typically changes throughout a piece ; the challenge of choosing good fingering for a piece is to make the hand movements as comfortable as possible without ...

  9. Rhythm guitar - Wikipedia

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    Play ⓘ In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression ...