Explore Guitar through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Guitar meaning
- A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
- Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
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Example types with guitar
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Guitar main main Jazz guitar refers to a variety of guitar playing styles used in the various jazz genres. (19 words)
Made in Canada: New Music for Guitar is their Ontario tour celebrating Canadian music for solo guitar and guitar duo. (20 words)
Everyone that donates is entered in the raffle to win their choice of an Ibanez acoustic guitar, electric guitar, or bass guitar. (22 words)
I’ll have Spencer Jo playing guitar and Jordan Barrett playing guitar and Miles playing drums and Jeff Barrett from the Medicine Hat band One Shot Left, who are one of my favourite bands, playing bass,” he enthused, adding he will also be playing guitar. (45 words)
Table steel guitar main The console steel guitar (also known as a table steel guitar) is an electric instrument, intermediate between the lap steel from which it developed and the pedal steel which in turn developed from the console steel. (40 words)
Guitar In guitar playing (apart from classical guitar) legato is used interchangeably as a label for both musical articulation and a particular application of technique—playing musical phrases with predominantly hammer-ons or pull-offs instead of picking. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Session rosters from 1938 show both "lead guitar" and "electric guitar" in addition to guitar and steel guitar in the Texas Playboys recordings.
Thus, the lap steel guitar is sometimes known as the Hawaiian guitar, particularly in documents from the early 20th century, and today any steel guitar is frequently called a Hawaiian steel guitar.
Testify’s lineup for the show was Darius Yazzie (vocals/guitar), Edmund Yazzie (drums), Nick Willie (rhythm/lead guitar), and Thomas Manwell (bass guitar).
The band is made up of Mike Boucher, lead vocals and guitar; Harry Coddington, lead guitar; Roger Howard, drummer; Marty Mclellan, guitar and vocals; and Steve Brown, keyboard and vocals.
Two runner-up winners will receive a Disney-branded Taylor GS Mini guitar, a Disney Vinyl Collection and two months of Guitar Center guitar lessons.
Everyone that donates is entered in the raffle to win their choice of an Ibanez acoustic guitar, electric guitar, or bass guitar.
Made in Canada: New Music for Guitar is their Ontario tour celebrating Canadian music for solo guitar and guitar duo.
Annually, International Guitar Night’s founder Brian Gore invites a new cast of guitar luminaries from around the world for special concert tours highlighting the diversity of acoustic guitar music.
Byron Muller (bass/guitar), Mckeen (bass/guitar), Chad Snell (guitar) and Slade du Randt (drums) – who are all linked to Benoni – also recently performed at the Misty Waters Music Festival at Lake Umuzi.
Elias hit Rush with a guitar, Lashley hit Elias with a guitar and now we watch them try and climb a ladder to get a guitar with which to hit the other guy.
I’ll have Spencer Jo playing guitar and Jordan Barrett playing guitar and Miles playing drums and Jeff Barrett from the Medicine Hat band One Shot Left, who are one of my favourite bands, playing bass,” he enthused, adding he will also be playing guitar.
Guitar feedback effects can be difficult to perform, because it is difficult to determine the sound volume and guitar position relative to a guitar amp's loudspeaker necessary for achieving the desired feedback sound.
Guitar In guitar playing (apart from classical guitar) legato is used interchangeably as a label for both musical articulation and a particular application of technique—playing musical phrases with predominantly hammer-ons or pull-offs instead of picking.
Guitar main main Jazz guitar refers to a variety of guitar playing styles used in the various jazz genres.
However, Hawaiian guitar often refers to slack key guitar, played in the conventional or Spanish position, using a conventional fretted guitar in various open tunings, generally with the strings tuned considerably lower than usual.
In some rock or metal bands with two guitarists, the two performers may perform as a guitar tandem, and trade off the lead guitar and rhythm guitar roles.
Slide guitar is most often played (assuming a right-handed player and guitar): * With the guitar in the normal position, using a slide on one of the fingers of the left hand.
Sound and effects While an acoustic guitar 's sound depends largely on the vibration of the guitar's body and the air inside it, the sound of an electric guitar depends largely on the signal from the pickups.
Table steel guitar main The console steel guitar (also known as a table steel guitar) is an electric instrument, intermediate between the lap steel from which it developed and the pedal steel which in turn developed from the console steel.
The acoustic guitar group also includes unamplified guitars designed to play in different registers, such as the acoustic bass guitar, which has a similar tuning to that of the electric bass guitar.
Phrases with guitar
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Common combinations with guitar
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- guitar and 47×
- the guitar 28×
- bass guitar 24×
- electric guitar 22×
- acoustic guitar 20×
- on guitar 20×
- steel guitar 19×
- guitar is 19×
- lead guitar 18×
- of guitar 15×