guitar vocab words Crossword

the six long metal strands of the guitar that vibrate to make music. open strings from low to high pitch are E-A-D-G-B-E (elephants and donkeys grow big ears)
the regularly recurring underlying pulsation of the music
a discrete segment of beats, repeated throughout the music
the basic chords of the blues.
the relative speed at which the beats occur
a pattern of musical duration (long or short).
a single musical sound of a specific pitch and specific duration
the metal bars on the guitar fretboard.
a group of three or more notes of distinct pitch. they are played on the guitar by playing three or more strings at once.
the specific frequency (high or low) of a musical sound.
the basic chords of Western music.
a type of music notation indicating where a guitar player should place their fingers in order to play a certain chord.
a style of music that emerged in the American south among African American communities around 1900, and contained lyrics describing the struggles of their life.
the home note or chord of a piece of music.
the adoptation of elements from one culture by a different culture.
playing exactly the same music at a higher or lower pitch
a relationship between notes where one note is exactly twice as high as the other.
a sequence of notes played in succession within an octave thta follows a particular pattern.
a type of graphic music notation where notes are indentified by how they are played.
a simple five-note scale.
when the guitar plays melodies rather than chords.
when a guitarist's hand pivots back and forth, causing the pitch to go up and down rapidly.
when a musician uses their knowledge of scales and harmony to create music on the spot.
when a guitarist pulls up or down on the guitar string to raise the pitch without changing frets.
single notes played in succession that the listener hears as one idea.
an altered version of the pentatonic scale used for improvising solos in blues and post-blues music. it has an additional note compared to the pentatonic scale
a repeating cycle of chords throughout a piece of music.
the scale containing all twelve pitches of western music in a row
the structure of almost every popular song chord progresson, where the progression lasts for four measures and repeats continuously.
a chord with no open strings.
a harmonic effect where the third of the chord is raised to produce a tense sound.
a "chord" containing only two different pitches. are easily transpored using the chromatic scale.
the most commonly used scale in western music. its 7 steps follow the pattern: w-w-h-w-w-w-h
a third type of triad, different from major to minor.
a means of analyzing the chords found in any major key without referring to them by thei letter nam. pattern: I ii iii IV V vi vii*