Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Due to the tension present on the strings, elasticity and tension begins to decrease the moment they are installed in a racquet. "Dead strings", or strings which have lost their tension, cut down on the performance of a racquet. Dead strings may also hamper a tennis player's ability to generate power and pace, and may even make their arm sore.
This video clip demonstrates hybrid picking. Guitar picking is a group of hand and finger techniques a guitarist uses to set guitar strings in motion to produce audible notes. These techniques involve plucking, strumming, brushing, etc. Picking can be done with:
A vintage Takamine 12-string with a requinto style set-up The Mexican twelve-string guitar , also known as a requinto-style or Sierreño-style guitar , is a modified twelve-string guitar . It can approximate the sound of a bajo sexto or bajo quinto and play regional Mexican styles, such as norteño , Tejano (Tex-Mex), and conjunto (música ...
Greg Koch using a hybrid picking style with pick. Hybrid picking involves using a combination of the pick and the fingers. Hold the pick between your thumb and index finger, and use your middle and ring fingers to pluck additional strings...[Generally], pick the bass notes with the pick, and pluck the highe[r] two strings with your middle and ring finger.
Jazz guitarist Howard Alden. Tosin Abasi (born 1983) is a guitarist, formerly of Reflux, who has since started his own solo project known as Animals as Leaders.He started playing extended range instruments when a friend recommended an Ibanez seven string guitar to him.
String gauge refers to the thickness and diameter of a guitar string, which influences the overall sound and pitch of the guitar depending on the guitar string used. [17] Some alternative tunings are difficult or even impossible to achieve with conventional guitars due to the sets of guitar strings, which have gauges optimized for standard tuning.
The predecessor of today's six-string classical guitar was the five-string baroque guitar tuned as the five high strings of a six-string guitar with the A raised one octave. High C – E-A-d-g-c' Standard tuning with the B tuned a half step higher to C to emulate a six-string bass guitar, minus the low B.
The Yepes 10-string guitar adds four strings (resonators) tuned in such a way that they (along with the other three bass strings) can resonate in sympathy with any of the 12 chromatic notes (or their primary harmonics) that can occur on the higher strings; the idea behind this being an attempt at enhancing and balancing sonority.