Guitar Theory

APPENDIXD

Glossary

accidental    A sharp sign, flat sign, or natural sign.

alternate picking    Picking single notes in a continual down-and-up motion.

alternate tuning    Tuning the strings of the guitar to notes other than those of standard tuning.

alternating bass    A type of strum played like the “boom-chuck” but differing in that the root note in the bass note is played on the first beat only and another note (usually the fifth of the chord) is played on the third beat.

arpeggio    A chord played one note (usually on separate strings) at a time, usually in an ascending or descending order.

augmented chord    One of the four basic chord types, made up of the root, major third, and augmented fifth degrees of the Major Scale.

bar    Also ...