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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. Tablature is common for fretted stringed instruments such as the guitar , lute or vihuela , as well as many free reed aerophones such as the harmonica .
Dive bomb is a guitar technique in which the tremolo bar, or whammy bar is used to rapidly lower the pitch of a note, creating a sound considered to be similar to a bomb dropping.
Tapping is a playing technique that can be used on any stringed instrument, but which is most commonly used on guitar.The technique involves a string being fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion.
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Slapping is a technique also adopted by acoustic and electric fingerstyle guitarists. [1] John Lennon is seen slapping his guitar in the first two measures of the song "Get Back" in Peter Jackson's documentary " The Beatles: Get Back ".
Drum tablature, commonly known as a drum tab, is a form of simplified percussion notation, or tablature for percussion instruments.Instead of the durational notes normally seen on a piece of sheet music, drum tab uses proportional horizontal placement to indicate rhythm and vertical placement on a series of lines to represent which drum from the drum kit to stroke.
The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the gut-strung Romantic guitar, [1] but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. Like the modern classical guitar, it is often referred to simply as an acoustic guitar , or sometimes as a folk guitar .
Music portal; Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar, electric violin, electric organ and synthesizer. [1]