Fingerstyle guitar

Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar or bass guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick"). ^[1]

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Accompaniment

Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.

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Adam Rafferty

Adam Rafferty (born January 26, 1969) is a guitarist and composer.

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Albert Collins

Albert Gene Collins (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993)Skeely, Richard.

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Albert King

Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American guitarist and singer who is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists of all time.

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Ali Farka Touré

Ali Ibrahim "Ali Farka" Touré (31 October 1939 – 6 March 2006) was a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist, and one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians.

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Alternate bass

In music, alternate bass is a performance technique on many instruments where the bass alternates between two notes, most often the root and the fifth of a triad or chord.

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Andrés Segovia

Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña (21 February 1893 – 2 June 1987) was a Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist.

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Andy McKee

Andy McKee (born April 4, 1979, in Topeka, Kansas) is an American fingerstyle guitar player who has released six studio albums, two extended plays, and one live album to date.

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Ani DiFranco

Angela Maria "Ani" DiFranco (born September 23, 1970) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Anji (instrumental)

"Anji" (also spelled "Angi", "Angie" or "On gee") is an acoustic fingerstyle guitar piece composed and recorded by noted folk guitarist Davy Graham in 1961 and originally released as part of his EP debut 3/4 AD.

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Apoyando

Apoyando ("supporting") is a method of brushing the string used in both classical guitar and flamenco guitar known in English as 'rest stroke'. Fingerstyle guitar and Apoyando are guitar performance techniques.

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Argentines

Argentines are the people identified with the country of Argentina.

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Arpeggio

An arpeggio is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order. Fingerstyle guitar and arpeggio are guitar performance techniques.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition.

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Art music

Art music (alternatively called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music) is music considered to be of high phonoaesthetic value.

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Banjo

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.

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Baroque music

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.

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Bass (sound)

Bass (also called bottom end) describes tones of low (also called "deep") frequency, pitch and range from 16 to 250 Hz (C0 to middle C4) and bass instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range C2-C4.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.

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Bass note

In music theory, the bass note of a chord or sonority is the lowest note played or notated.

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Bassline

Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, dub and electronic, traditional, and classical music, for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric organ, or synthesizer).

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Benin

Benin (Bénin, Benɛ, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin), and also known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.

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Bert Jansch

Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle.

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Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley; June 26, 1893 or 1903August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Blind Blake

Arthur Blake (1896 – December 1, 1934), known as Blind Blake, was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.

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Blind Willie Johnson

Blind Willie Johnson (January 25, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was an American gospel blues singer and guitarist.

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Blind Willie McTell

Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was a Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Break (music)

In popular music, a break is an instrumental or percussion section during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece.

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British folk rock

British folk rock is a form of folk rock which developed in the United Kingdom from the mid 1960s, and was at its most significant in the 1970s.

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Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Douglas Cockburn (born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Buckethead

Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), known professionally as Buckethead, is an American guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles by the mid-20th century.

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Cape Town

Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.

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Capo (musical device)

A capo (short for capodastro, capo tasto or capotasto, Italian for "head of fretboard") is a device a musician uses on the neck of a stringed (typically fretted) instrument to transpose and shorten the playable length of the strings—hence raising the pitch.

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Carl Kress

Carl Kress (October 20, 1907 – June 10, 1965) was an American jazz guitarist.

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Carter Family

The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956.

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Carter Family picking

file:Carter-style lick.mid Carter Family picking, also known as the thumb brush, the Carter lick, the church lick, or the Carter scratch,Sid Griffin and Eric Thompson (2006). Fingerstyle guitar and Carter Family picking are country music and guitar performance techniques.

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Charlie Byrd

Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist.

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Chet Atkins

Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), also known as "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans.

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Chord (music)

In music, a chord is a group of two or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth.

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Chord progression

In a musical composition, a chord progression or harmonic progression (informally chord changes, used as a plural) is a succession of chords.

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Chris Woods (guitarist)

Chris Woods, born in Sussex, is a British fingerstyle guitarist whose playing features extended techniques.

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Classical guitar

The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles.

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Classical period (music)

The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.

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Clawhammer

Clawhammer, sometimes called down-picking, overhand, or frailing, is a distinctive banjo playing style and a common component of American old-time music.

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Colter Wall

Colter Wall (born June 27, 1995) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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Courtney Barnett

Courtney Melba Barnett (born 3 November 1987) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Cyril Pahinui

Cyril Pahinui (April 21, 1950 – November 17, 2018) was a slack-key guitarist and singer of Hawaiian music.

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DADGAD

, or Celtic tuning, is an alternative guitar tuning most associated with Celtic music, though it has also found use in rock, folk, metal and several other genres.

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Dave Van Ronk

David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer.

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Davey Graham

David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham (originally spelled Davy Graham) (26 November 1940 – 15 December 2008) was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival.

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Dónal Lunny

Dónal Lunny (born 10 March 1947) is an Irish folk musician and producer.

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Dennis Kamakahi

Dennis David Kahekilimamaoikalanikeha Kamakahi (March 31, 1953 – April 28, 2014) was a Hawaiian slack key guitarist, recording artist, music composer, and Christian minister.

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Derek Trucks

Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and founder of The Derek Trucks Band.

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Dick Gaughan

Richard Peter Gaughan (born 17 May 1948) is a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter, particularly of folk and social protest songs.

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Dick McDonough

Richard Tobin McDonough (July 30, 1904 – May 25, 1938) was an American jazz guitarist and banjoist.

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Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002.

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Django Reinhardt

Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django, was a Belgian Manouche or Sinti jazz guitarist and composer.

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Djelimady Tounkara

Djelimady Tounkara is a Malian musician and one of the foremost guitarists in Africa.

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Don Ross (guitarist)

Donald James Ross (born November 19, 1960) is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist.

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Double stop

In music, a double stop is the technique of playing two notes simultaneously on a stringed instrument such as a violin, a viola, a cello, or a double bass.

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Doyle Dykes

Doyle Dykes (born May 23, 1954) is an American country acoustic guitarist from Jacksonville, Florida.

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Drop D tuning

Drop D tuning is an alternative form of guitar tuning in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down from the usual E of standard tuning by one whole step to D. So where standard tuning is E2A2D3G3B3E4 (EADGBe), drop D is D2A2D3G3B3E4 (DADGBe).

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Duane Allman

Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American rock and blues guitarist and the founder and original leader of the Allman Brothers Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

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Duck Baker

Richard Royall "Duck" Baker IV (born July 30, 1949) is an American acoustic fingerstyle guitarist who plays in a variety of styles: jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk, and Irish and Scottish music.

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Earl Klugh

Earl Klugh (born September 16, 1953) is an American acoustic guitarist and composer.

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ED Denson

Eugene "ED" Denson is an American music group manager, producer, record label owner, and, later, lawyer, who has made notable contributions to folk, blues, and early San Francisco rock.

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Eddie Lang

Eddie Lang (born Salvatore Massaro; October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) was an American musician who is credited as the father of jazz guitar.

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Eight-string guitar

An eight-string guitar is a guitar with eight strings, or one more than the Russian guitar's seven.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar.

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Elliott Smith

Steven Paul Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003), known as Elliott Smith, was an American musician and singer-songwriter.

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Envelope (music)

In sound and music, an envelope describes how a sound changes over time.

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Eric Roche

Eric Roche (4 December 1967 – 6 September 2005) was an Irish fingerstyle guitarist.

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Eric Schoenberg

Eric Schoenberg is an American guitarist known for his fingerstyle guitar playing, as well as a recording artist and designer of acoustic guitars.

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Erik Mongrain

Erik Mongrain (born April 12, 1980) is a Canadian composer and guitarist.

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Extended technique

In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.

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Fender Stratocaster

The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed between 1952 and 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares.

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Finger

A finger is a prominent digit on the forelimbs of most tetrapod vertebrate animals, especially those with prehensile extremities (i.e. hands) such as humans and other primates.

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Fingerboard

The fingerboard (also known as a fretboard on fretted instruments) is an important component of most stringed instruments.

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Fingerstyle guitar

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Flamenco

Flamenco is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Murcia.

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Flatpicking

Flatpicking (or simply picking) is the technique of striking the strings of a guitar with a pick (also called a plectrum) held between the thumb and one or two fingers. Fingerstyle guitar and Flatpicking are guitar performance techniques.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Folk, Blues and Beyond

Folk, Blues and Beyond is the second studio album by British musician Davy Graham, originally released in 1965.

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Folkways Records

Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music.

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Fret

A fret is any of the thin strips of material, usually metal wire, inserted laterally at specific positions along the neck or fretboard of a stringed instrument.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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Gabby Pahinui

Philip Kunia Pahinui (April 22, 1921 – October 13, 1980), known as Gabby Pahinui, was a slack-key guitarist and singer of Hawaiian music.

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George Mukabi

George Mukabi (1930–1963) was a folk musician from Kenya and was one of the first recorded musicians in the country.

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George Van Eps

George Abel Van Eps (August 7, 1913 – November 29, 1998) was an American swing and mainstream jazz guitarist.

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George Winston

George Otis Winston III (February 11, 1949 – June 4, 2023) was an American pianist performing contemporary instrumental music.

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Gibson Brands

Gibson, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corporation and Gibson Brands Inc.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Gibson ES-5

The Gibson ES-5 is a hollow-body electric guitar produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation as part of the ES, or "Electric Spanish" series of guitars.

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Gibson Les Paul

The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952.

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Gnawa music

Gnawa music (Ar. ڭْناوة or كْناوة) is a body of Moroccan religious songs and rhythms.

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Greg Koch (musician)

Greg Koch (born 1966) is an American guitarist from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Guitar pick

A guitar pick (American English) is a plectrum used for guitars.

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Guitar picking

Guitar picking is a group of hand and finger techniques a guitarist uses to set guitar strings in motion to produce audible notes. Fingerstyle guitar and guitar picking are guitar performance techniques.

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Guitar tunings

Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitches to the open strings of guitars, including classical guitars, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars.

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Guy King

Guy King (born 1977) is an Israeli-born blues and jazz guitarist and singer who now lives in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Hammer-on

A hammer-on is a playing technique performed on a stringed instrument (especially on a fretted string instrument, such as a guitar) by sharply bringing a fretting-hand finger down on to the fingerboard behind a fret, causing a note to sound. Fingerstyle guitar and hammer-on are guitar performance techniques.

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Happy Traum

Harry Peter "Happy" Traum (May 9, 1938 – July 17, 2024) was an American folk musician who started playing around Washington Square in the late 1950s.

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Harmony

In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Hillel Slovak

Hillel Slovak (הלל סלובק; April 13, 1962 – June 25, 1988) was an Israeli-American musician, best known as the founding guitarist of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he recorded two albums.

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Hubert Sumlin

Hubert Charles Sumlin (November 16, 1931 – December 4, 2011) was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer, best known for his "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" as a member of Howlin' Wolf's band.

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Hybrid picking

Hybrid picking is a guitar-playing technique that involves picking with a pick (plectrum) and one or more fingers alternately or simultaneously. Fingerstyle guitar and Hybrid picking are guitar performance techniques.

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Indian classical music

Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.

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J. J. Cale

John Weldon "J.

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James Burton

James Edward Burton (born August 21, 1939, in Dubberly, Louisiana) is an American guitarist.

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James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Jared James Nichols

Jared James Nichols (born March 14, 1989) is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer from East Troy, Wisconsin, best known for his high-energy "pick-less" electric guitar playing technique.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jazz guitar

Jazz guitar may refer to either a type of electric guitar or a guitar playing style in jazz, using electric amplification to increase the volume of acoustic guitars.

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Jean Bosco Mwenda

Jean-Bosco Mwenda, also known as Mwenda wa Bayeke (1930 – September 1990), was a pioneer of Congolese fingerstyle acoustic guitar music.

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Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 194410 January 2023) was an English guitarist.

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Jeff Linsky

Jeff Linsky (born April 12, 1952) is an American fingerstyle guitarist who plays Latin and Brazilian jazz.

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João Gilberto

João Gilberto (born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira –; 10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s.

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Jody Stecher

Jonathan Allan "Jody" Stecher (born June 1, 1946) is an American singer and musician.

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Joe Bonamassa

Joseph Leonard Bonamassa (born May 8, 1977) is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Joe Pass

Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalacqua; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist.

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John Etheridge

John Michael Glyn Etheridge (born 12 January 1948) is an English jazz fusion guitarist, composer, bandleader and educator known for his eclecticism and broad range of associations in jazz, classical, and contemporary music.

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John Fahey (musician)

John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.

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John Keawe

John Keawe is a Hawaiian musician and slack key guitar player from Hawi in the North Kohala district of the Big Island of Hawaii.

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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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John Martyn

Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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John Mayer

John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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John Prine

John Edward Prine (October 10, 1946 – April 7, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter of country-folk music.

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John Renbourn

John Renbourn (8 August 1944 – 26 March 2015) was an English guitarist and songwriter.

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Jon Gomm

Jon Gomm (born 11 July 1977) is an English singer-songwriter and performer.

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Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen, Jr. (born December 23, 1940) is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist.

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Kenneth Carllile

Kenneth Ray Carllile (April 2, 1931 – July 31, 1987), better known as Thumbs Carllile (Carlisle in some collections), was an American country music guitarist and songwriter known for his innovative zither-like fingerstyle playing, sitting with his guitar in his lap while fretting, picking and strumming with his fingers and thumbs.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Keola Beamer

Keola Beamer (born Keolamaikalani Breckenridge Beamer February 18, 1951) is a Hawaiian slack-key guitar player, best known as the composer of "Honolulu City Lights" and an innovative musician who fused Hawaiian roots and contemporary music.

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Kicking Mule Records

Kicking Mule Records was an American independent record label, founded in Berkeley, California in 1971 by guitarist Stefan Grossman and Eugene "ED" Denson, formerly co-owner of Takoma Records.

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Koo Nimo

Koo Nimo (born Kwabena Boa-Amponsem on 3 October 1934), baptized Daniel Amponsah is a leading folk musician of Palm wine music or Highlife music from Ghana.

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Kora (instrument)

The kora (Manding languages: italics kɔra) is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa.

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Koto (instrument)

The is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan.

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Kurt Vile

Kurt Samuel Vile (born January 3, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer.

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Lap steel guitar

The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap.

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Laurindo Almeida

Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917 – July 26, 1995) was a Brazilian guitarist and composer in classical, jazz, and Latin music.

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Ledward Kaapana

Ledward Kaapana (born August 25, 1948) is a Hawaiian musician, best known for playing in the slack key guitar style.

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Lenny Breau

Leonard Harold Breau (August 5, 1941 – August 12, 1984) was an American-Canadian guitarist.

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Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke (born September 11, 1945) is an American acoustic guitarist.

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Leonard Kwan

Leonard Keala Kwan Sr (1931–2000) was one of the most influential Hawaiian slack-key guitarists to emerge in the period immediately preceding the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance of the 1970s.

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Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American musician, record producer, and the lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 and 1997 to 2018.

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Lionel Loueke

Lionel Loueke (born 27 April 1973) is a guitarist and vocalist born in Benin.

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List of Cambridge Companions to Music

The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press.

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Lonnie Johnson (musician)

Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and songwriter.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Marcel Dadi

Marcel Dadi (20 August 1951 – 17 July 1996) was a Tunisian-born French virtuoso guitarist known for his finger-picking style which faithfully recreated the instrumental styles of American guitarists such as Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed.

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Mark Knopfler

Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Martin Carthy

Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Martin Simpson

Martin Stewart Simpson (born 5 May 1953) is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Martin Taylor (guitarist)

Martin Taylor, MBE (born 20 October 1956) is a British jazz guitarist who has performed solo, in groups, guitar ensembles, and as an accompanist.

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Maybelle Carter

"Mother" Maybelle Carter (born Maybelle Addington; May 10, 1909 – October 23, 1978) was an American country musician and "among the first" to use the Carter scratch, with which she "helped to turn the guitar into a lead instrument." It was named after her.

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Mbira

Mbira are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.

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McGee Brothers

The McGee Brothers were an American old-time performing duo of brothers Sam McGee (Samuel Fleming McGee, May 1, 1894 – August 28, 1975) and Kirk McGee (David Kirkland McGee, November 4, 1899 – October 24, 1983).

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Melody

A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Memphis Minnie

Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), better known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted for over three decades.

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Merle Travis

Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky, United States.

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Michael Hedges

Michael Alden Hedges (December 31, 1953 – December 2, 1997) was an American acoustic guitarist and songwriter.

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Mick Moloney

Michael Moloney (15 November 1944 – 27 July 2022) was an Irish-born American musician and scholar.

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Mike Dawes

Mike Dawes (born 21 July 1989) is an English fingerstyle guitar player known for composing, arranging, and performing multiple parts simultaneously on the guitar.

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Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English former musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success.

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Mississippi John Hurt

John Smith Hurt (March 8, 1893 – November 2, 1966), known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Mode (music)

In music theory, the term mode or modus is used in a number of distinct senses, depending on context.

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Mose Rager

Moses Rager (April 2, 1911 – May 14, 1986) was a guitar player from Kentucky.

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

Muhlenberg County is a county in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Music

Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.

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Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Congolese music is one of the most influential music forms of the African continent.

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Musical notation

Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music.

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Nail file

A nail file is a tool used that can be used to gently grind down and shape the edges of nails.

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New Age

New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s.

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New-age music

New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.

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Ngoni (instrument)

The ngoni (also written ngɔni, n'goni, or nkoni) is a traditional West African string instrument.

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Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English musician.

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Open C tuning

Open C tuning is an open tuning for guitar.

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Open D tuning

Open D tuning is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar.

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Open G tuning

Among alternative tunings for the guitar, an open G tuning is an open tuning that features the G-major chord; its open notes are selected from the notes of a G-major chord, such as the G-major triad (G,B,D).

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Oscar Alemán

Oscar Marcelo Alemán (20 February 1909 – 14 October 1980) was an Argentine jazz multi instrumentalist, guitarist, singer, and dancer.

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Ostinato

In music, an ostinato (derived from the Italian word for stubborn, compare English obstinate) is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch.

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Oud

The oud (translit) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.

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Ozzie Kotani

Ozzie Kotani is a slack-key guitar player and a well-respected teacher, arranger, solo performer and accompanist.

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Palm-wine music

Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre.

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Palming

Palming is a technique for holding or concealing an object in the hand.

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Patrick Simmons

Patrick Simmons (born October 19, 1948) is an American musician best known as a founding member of the rock band The Doobie Brothers, with whom he was inducted as into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.

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Paul Brady

Paul Joseph Brady (born 19 May 1947) is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician from Strabane, Northern Ireland.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter known both for his solo work and his collaboration with Art Garfunkel.

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Peter Finger

Peter Finger (born 11 October 1954) is a German acoustic fingerstyle guitarist, songwriter, composer and record producer.

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Peter Moon (musician)

Peter Moon (August 25, 1944 – February 17, 2018) was an American ukulele and slack-key guitar player.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Pierre Bensusan

Pierre Bensusan (born 30 October 1957) is a French-Algerian acoustic guitarist.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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Pizzicato

Pizzicato (translated as 'pinched', and sometimes roughly as 'plucked') is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument.

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Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument.

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Polyphony

Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

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Preston Reed

Preston Reed (born April 13, 1955) is an American fingerstyle guitarist.

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Pull-off

A pull-off is a stringed instrument playing and articulation technique performed by plucking or "pulling" the finger that is grasping the sounding part of a string off the fingerboard of either a fretted or unfretted instrument. Fingerstyle guitar and pull-off are guitar performance techniques.

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Raga

A raga (also raaga or ragam or raag) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode.

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Ragtime

Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s.

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Rasgueado

Rasgueado (also called Rageo (spelled so or Rajeo), Rasgueo or Rasgeo in Andalusian dialect and flamenco jargon, or even occasionally Rasqueado) is a guitar finger strumming technique commonly associated with flamenco guitar music. Fingerstyle guitar and Rasgueado are guitar performance techniques.

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Raymond Kāne

Raymond Kaleoalohapoinaʻoleohelemanu Kāne (October 2, 1925 - February 27, 2008), was one of Hawaii's acknowledged masters of the slack-key guitar.

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Reverend Gary Davis

Gary D. Davis (April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972), known as Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Gary Davis, was a blues and gospel singer who was also proficient on the banjo, guitar and harmonica.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Rhythm guitar

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, where a chord is a group of notes played together. Fingerstyle guitar and rhythm guitar are guitar performance techniques.

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Richard Smith (English guitarist)

Richard Smith (born 12 December 1971) is an English guitarist.

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Richard Thompson (musician)

Richard Thompson (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Richie Kotzen

Richard Dale Kotzen Jr. is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Robbie Basho

Robbie Basho (born Daniel R. Robinson, Jr., August 31, 1940 – February 28, 1986) was an American acoustic guitarist, pianist and singer.

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Robbie Robertson

Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician of Indigenous ancestry.

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Robby Krieger

Robert Alan Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American guitarist and founding member of the rock band the Doors.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Romantic music

Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era (or Romantic period).

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Ry Cooder

Ryland Peter Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer.

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S. E. Rogie

Sooliman Ernest Rogers "Rogie", (1926 – 4 July 1994) better known as S. E. Rogie, was a highlife and palm wine musician and guitarist from Sierra Leone.

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Samba band

A Samba band or samba is a musical ensemble that plays samba music.

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Scarborough Fair (ballad)

"Scarborough Fair" is a traditional English ballad.

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Scordatura

Scordatura (literally, Italian for "discord", or "mistuning") is a tuning of a string instrument that is different from the normal, standard tuning.

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Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist.

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Scotty Moore

Winfield Scott Moore III (December 27, 1931 – June 28, 2016) was an American guitarist who formed The Blue Moon Boys in 1954, Elvis Presley's backing band.

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Semi-acoustic guitar

A semi-acoustic guitar, also known as a hollow-body electric guitar, is a type of electric guitar designed to be played with a guitar amplifier featuring a fully or partly hollow body and at least one electromagnetic pickup.

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Seven-string guitar

The seven-string guitar adds one additional string to the more common six-string guitar, commonly used to extend the bass range (usually a low B) or also to extend the treble range.

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Sintir

The sintir (سنتير), also known as the guembri (الكمبري), gimbri, hejhouj in Hausa language, is a three stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people of Morocco.

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Skiffle

Skiffle is a genre of folk music with influences from American folk music, blues, country, bluegrass, and jazz, generally performed with a mixture of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments.

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Skip James

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter.

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Slide guitar

Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. Fingerstyle guitar and Slide guitar are guitar performance techniques.

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Solid Air

Solid Air is the fourth studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter John Martyn, released in February 1973 by Island Records.

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Sonny Chillingworth

Edwin Bradfield Liloa Chillingworth, Jr., known as Sonny Chillingworth, (July 14, 1932 – August 24, 1994) was an American guitarist and singer.

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Soukous

Soukous (from French secousse, "shock, jolt, jerk") is a genre of dance music originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) and the Republic of the Congo (formerly French Congo).

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Sounds of Silence

Sounds of Silence is the second studio album by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on January 17, 1966.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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St. Vincent (musician)

Anne Erin Clark (born September 28, 1982), known professionally as St.

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Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist.

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Steel guitar

A steel guitar (kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. Fingerstyle guitar and steel guitar are guitar performance techniques.

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Steel-string acoustic guitar

The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the gut-strung Romantic guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.

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Stefan Grossman

Stefan Grossman (born April 16, 1945) is an American acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and singer, music producer and educator, and co-founder of Kicking Mule records.

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Stephen Malkmus

Stephen Joseph Malkmus (born May 30, 1966) is an American musician best known as the primary songwriter, lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement.

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String (music)

In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration.

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String harmonic

Playing a string harmonic (a flageolet) is a string instrument technique that uses the nodes of natural harmonics of a musical string to isolate overtones.

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Strum

In music, strumming is a way of playing a stringed instrument such as a guitar, ukulele, or mandolin. Fingerstyle guitar and strum are guitar performance techniques.

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Swing era

The swing era (also frequently referred to as the big band era) was the period (1933–1947) when big band swing music was the most popular music in the United States, especially for teenagers.

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Tablature

Tablature (or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches.

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Takoma Records

Takoma Records was a small but influential record label founded by guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s.

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Tamborim

A tamborim is a small round Brazilian frame drum, developed from other similar percussive instruments bought by the Portuguese.

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Tampa Red

Hudson Whittaker (born Hudson Woodbridge; January 8, 1903March 19, 1981), known as Tampa Red, was an American Chicago blues musician.

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Ted Greene

Theodore Greene (September 26, 1946 – July 23, 2005) was an American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, columnist, session musician and educator in Encino, California.

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The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers were an American rock duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing.

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Tim Buckley

Timothy Charles Buckley III (February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975) was an American musician.

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Timbre

In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Tirando

Tirando is a method of plucking used in classical guitar and flamenco guitar. Fingerstyle guitar and Tirando are guitar performance techniques.

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Tommy Crook

Tommy Crook is an American guitarist who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Tommy Emmanuel

William Thomas Emmanuel (born 31 May 1955) is an Australian guitarist.

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Tony Cox (South African musician)

Tony Cox (born 24 January 1954) is a Rhodesian-born guitarist and composer who for most of his life was based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Treble (sound)

Treble describes tones of high frequency or high pitch, ranging from 6kHz to 20kHz, comprising the higher end of the human hearing range.

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Tremolo

In music, tremolo, or tremolando, is a trembling effect.

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Tuck & Patti

Tuck & Patti are an American jazz duo consisting of guitarist William Charles "Tuck" Andress (born October 28, 1952, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) and singer Patricia "Patti" Cathcart Andress (born October 4, 1949, in San Francisco).

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Turlough O'Carolan

Turlough O'Carolan (Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin; 167025 March 1738) was a blind Celtic harper, composer and singer in Ireland whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition.

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Vieux Farka Touré

Boureima "Vieux" Farka Touré (born 12 March 1981) is a Malian singer, composer and guitarist.

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Wes Montgomery

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist.

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Wilko Johnson

John Andrew Wilkinson (12 July 1947 – 21 November 2022), better known by the stage name Wilko Johnson, was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter and occasional actor.

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William Ackerman

William Ackerman (born November 16, 1949) is an American guitarist and record producer who founded Windham Hill Records.

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Windham Hill Records

Windham Hill Records was an independent record label that specialized in instrumental acoustic music.

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Woody Mann

Haywood Lee Mann (December 30, 1952 – January 27, 2022) was an American guitarist.

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Yvette Young

Yvette Young (born June 28, 1991) is an American musician from San Jose, California.

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

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6- and 12-String Guitar

6- and 12-String Guitar is the second album by Leo Kottke, a solo instrumental steel-string acoustic guitar album originally released by John Fahey's Takoma Records in 1969.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerstyle_guitar

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