Free Essays on Guitar

  1. The Guitar

    The guitar is an ancient musical instrument used in a wide variety of musical styles. Typically it has six strings, but four, seven, eight, ten and even twelve string guitars also exist. Guitars are recognized as the main instrument of different music genres such as, blues, rock, flamenco, and many forms...

  2. Producing Acoustic Guitar

    Producing Acoustic Guitar The acoustic guitar is very much in style today. Crossing between folk, pop and rock genres. While the acoustic guitar remains one of the most simple instruments, it also remains one of the hardest to get a great sound on in the studio. It's really not that difficult...

  3. Introduction to Guitars

    World of Guitars People have been making and playing guitars for hundreds of years. Over this large time period guitars have changed immensely. They range in all kinds different shapes, sizes, colors, styles, and brands. The main three categories that guitars fall under are the acoustic guitar, the electric...

  4. Who Invented the Acoustic Guitar

    Who Invented the Acoustic Guitar? The Mystery of Who Invented the Acoustic Guitar The major conundrum behind answering this question lies in the fact that debate exists about when the guitar actually became the guitar. Stringed instruments similar to the guitar, like the oud and the lute, date...

  5. The Rise of the Guitar

    The Rise of the Electric Guitar The Electric Guitar is a vital instrument in music. Without the electric guitar contribution music would not be what we hear today in genre of music. In almost every type of music you can hear the entrancing electric guitar, it’s one of the most popular instrument used...

  6. Select a Guitar

    How to Select a Guitar You don’t know how to choose your first guitar? If you’re new playing this instrument and you want to buy a new guitar follow this steps to make the best shop. The purpose of this essay is showing you how to choose a quality and not necessary expensive guitar. Remember it’s...

  7. Producing Electric Guitar

    Producing Electric Guitar Producing good guitar sounds can be a real challenge for a prod/eng in the studio. There are so many variables that factor into the sound and the process of getting a great sound might require a lot of work and experimenting. First start with a good guitarist...

  8. Brief Guitar History

    The guitar would continue to be modified throughout the twentiethcentury, including versions with greater numbers of strings, electronicmeans of amplifying tone and sound, and other innovations. Many types of guitarswere developed in the United States, from the early 18 s when C. In Guitar: An American...

  9. BIOS 105 Wk 3 iLab Case Study: The Hard Rocking Guitar player with Complaints of Joint Pain

    BIOS 105 Wk 3 iLab Case Study: The Hard Rocking Guitar player with Complaints of Joint Pain Follow Below Link to Download Tutorial https://homeworklance.com/downloads/bios-105-wk-3-ilab-case-study-the-hard-rocking-guitar-player-with-complaints-of-joint-pain/ For More Information Visit Our Website...

  10. Music Guitar

     The guitar is an ancient and noble instrument, whose history can be traced back over 4000 years. Many theories have been advanced about the instrument's ancestry. It has often been claimed that the guitar is a development of the lute, or even of the ancient Greek kithara. Research done by Dr. Michael...

  11. Guitar Tone

    Jacob Helie Professor Morris ENG 1510, MWF, 10AM 20 Oct 2013 A Beginners Guide to Electric Guitar Tone The desire to increase the sound of the guitar existed long before the development of electrical amplifiers and speakers. Ever-larger concert settings and ensembles characterized musical performances...

  12. Guitar Pro Manu

    Guitar Pro 6 User’s Guide Copyright © 2010 Arobas Music – All rights reserved www.guitar-pro.com Table of Contents Getting started.............................................................................................................................3 Installation........................

  13. Guitar and a Volin Painting

    This piece of work is made up of a Guitar and a Volin. This classy painting depicts a Guitar and a Violin in cool tones of beige, white, and blue, elements of the violin and guitar are scattered throughout this awesome canvas. The black colour is the part of Guitar and the brown colour are the part of...

  14. 11 Things Picked Up over 11 Years of Guitar Playing

    11 Things Picked Up Over 11 Years Of Guitar Playing http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/general_music/11_things_picked_up_over_11_years_of_guitar_playing.html Be warned this is long, take your time or read it in bits, or complain about the length in the comments, either way please rate it, this...

  15. How to Restring an Acoustic Guitar

    guitarist must do is purchase the necessary tools and learn how to restring his/her guitar. Here I will give simple step-by-step instructions on the process of restringing your acoustic guitar. When preparing to restring your guitar, be sure you have a large, clean work area. Next, locate your winder, your...

  16. Music

    of the guitar and one of its most famous manufactures. The first website has a ton of general information on the guitar such as its origin, ancestors, similar instruments, and the variety of this instrument. The second website was based more on the history of the most memorable guitar manufactures...

  17. Comparing and Contrasting Guitarists

    Sweet Child O’ Mine, the bands most well known song to this day. Steve Vai stands from the pack when it comes to practice. On his way to becoming a guitar virtuoso Vai would practice 10 hours a day and document everything he did. Vai begun his music courier as a transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, so transcripting...

  18. Steve Reich Music Gcse Analysis

    incorporates this electronic sound into ‘Electric Counterpoint’ by using 7 electric guitars and 2 bass guitars. Moreover, Reich uses a live guitar on top of the prerecorded electric and bass guitars. He uses an amplifier on the live guitar so that it blends well into the piece and sounds similar to the other parts...

  19. Reservation Blues: the Power of the Guiter

    approaches Robert, he notices a guitar, this is when Thomas changes. Talking to Robert, Thomas realize that there is something that will make him fit in. The guitar is the one object that lets Thomas express himself in a non-accepting community. Talking to Thomas, the guitar feels the pain that is inside...

  20. Six Strings

    In the early 1900's Orville Gibson found the Gibson Guitar Corp. in Michigan. Originally his mission was to make instruments strictly in the mandolin family. By 1930, Gibson Guitar Corp. was putting into production flat top acoustic guitars as well as the first hollow body electric (“Corporate ...

  21. Pink Floyd's Animals Review

    Quadruple Platinum score from the RIAA. It featured David Gilmour on lead guitar, Nick Mason on drums, Roger Waters on bass and lead vocals, Richard Wright during any type of keyboarding and synthesizer work. Snowy White also did lead guitar on Pigs on a Wing. The song was based off George Orwell's novel, Animal...

  22. Jimi Hendrix vs. Eric Clapton

    very spontaneous guitar solo which highlights his guitar playing ability, where as in Jimi Hendrix performance he doesn’t exemplify his ability to play guitar when playing this song and just seems to speed up the playing of Clapton’s riffs. So in conclusion when considering these two guitar players, when...

  23. You know what its

    parents decided that I should learn how to play an instrument. In addition, they also chose which instrument I should learn, the guitar. I had no interest in learning the guitar, because all I wanted to spend my leisure time on was improvising my soccer skills. However, my parents believed soccer was a...

  24. Computine and Other Musical Arrangements

    layer and the dynamics and expressive techniques conveyed effectively by the use of only one instrument. I imported the notation of the song into Guitar Pro and began looking at ways in which I could break up the individual melodic lines and create more density of layers and increasing the tension of...

  25. Anthology 1

    when he was young. His mother visited him often and taught him to play the banjo and then the guitar. Paul was born in Liverpool and his mother was a nurse and midwife. He traded in his harmonica for a guitar so he would be able to sing and play at the same time. George lived down the road from Paul...

  26. Honeyboy

    sharecropper. He started playing the blues at a young age with his father’s guitar. Honeyboy Edwards played the acoustic guitar during the day at with authority, a style with a lot more care. At the night concert he played electric guitar with passion and emphasis. Honeyboy played his own original...

  27. DoJo

    to wonder why I picked Guitar Class for second period when Science Class was the better choice for naps early in the morning. As I approached the class, my nerves were punctured by the loudness of drums, unnecessary beating of the gong, and the amateurs trying to play guitar. The teacher finally showed...

  28. my boy

    like gives me inspiration. My guitar also points me in the right direction and gives me guidance as I need it. I love to just sit with my guitar and make up random lyrics about past experiences or what I’m going through at the moment. I started learning how to play the guitar 2 years ago and within the...

  29. Communications Advertising Paper

    Guitar Hero Advertisements have long been a cornerstone in the media. Advertising during the Super Bowl, for example, has become such a lucrative business that ad space for a 30 second commercial now costs around two million dollars. The commercial I will be covering is for the new video game...

  30. Inspiration in D

    started I was like every other one of the kids there. I loved music, I loved to listen to it and occasionally sing along and I knew a few chords on guitar, but that was just about it. All it was to me when I started was a summer camp; something to do while the parents were at work. This change has been...

  31. Bachata

    early 1960s as romantic guitar music, which is different from dancing guitar music. It originated in the Dominican Republic and after a while Bachata’s rhythm grew and a new dance step came about, and Bachata began to be classified as dance music. The start of the electric guitar played a big role in making...

  32. Skimming

    With one hand on the tiller and the other holding the sail, my hands are in the same position aswhen i play my guitar. I recall the practice involved both in playing the guitar and in sailing. Musicians and sailors alike practice their technique to reach perfection, whether in the form of a beautiful...

  33. Birds

    sound. He entered a room where there was a man sitting playing something he called a guitar. Man had many guitars one he called GIBSON LES PAUL another he called STRATACASTOR another he called GIBSON 355. With these guitars he made so many different songs some were happy, others were sad. Hope explained...

  34. History of Rock and Roll

    solo in the middle of the song after the second verse. The first known use of distortion was in this song because one of the amps for the electric guitar was broken (Campbell 75). Distortion was not widely used until much later and “Rocket 88” set the groundwork for future rock and roll artists to incorporate...

  35. Death of a Salesman

    Salesman expresses a theme that isn’t intrinsic with religion. The song explores coming of age, finding love, and creating a family. “So I took my guitar | | 3 | A | 1 | And I threw down some chords | | 3 | B | 2 | And some words I could sing without shame | 4 | C | 3 | | | | | | | | ...

  36. Surround Sound Mixing

    signal. Often in productions other musical instruments will provide the musical rhythmic function instead of the piano such as a chicken picking guitar part, where the piano would now be used in supplying the main harmonic foundation in the production. If this is the case, one needs to enhance the...

  37. PSY 322 Week 2 Individual Assignment Marketing Communication Memo

    stress reduction A pet store that offers organic, healthy food and environmentally friendly toys and beds A music store that wants to expand beyond guitars and drums to other instruments and sheet music. The memo must include the following: Two different strategies based on two different demographics...

  38. Desert Island

    which came out in the year of 2007. If you don’t know, Black Light Burns is the other band of Limp Bizkit guitarist, Wes Borland. Borland(Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboard) composed this masterpiece along with Josh Freese (Drums), Josh Eustice (Programming, Sound Design) and Danny Lohner (Producer). The...

  39. jake bugg interview

    that the influence of older artists really shines through in my music. How many guitars do you own in total? I have quite a lot of guitars, I probably own about 20! But my favourite one is a very rare and very old guitar that i brought in Nashville. I wanted it for ages but I never thought I would own...

  40. Music Terms

    included the mandolin, fiddle, banjo, guitar, and bass Muddy Waters: Electric Blues; highly influenced by Robert Johnson (the Crossroads guy); Bought an electric guitar after his move up North; Established the Standard Blues Band (composed of an electric guitar, harmonica, bass, & drums); Was an inspiration...

  41. Album 3

    track, Ain’t My Bitch opens a classic rock feel, using a Nazareth’s Hair of the Dog sound, with classic Ulrich drumming that breaks into a slide guitar solo which resembles Joe Perry style playing as heard on Aerosmith’s Rag doll. The next two tracks on the record stay in the rock mode, 2X4...

  42. Concert Review: Jamey Johnson

    music. Who Performs the Music? Jamey and his band performed the music. Jamey was the lead vocalist and the lead acoustic guitar but there was also another acoustic guitar a bass guitar, a fiddle, a banjo and some drums. Who Listens to the Music? The music is very popular in the country music world or...

  43. The Birds Song

    sound. He entered a room where there was a man sitting playing something he called a guitar. Man had many guitars one he called GIBSON LES PAUL another he called STRATACASTOR another he called GIBSON 355. With these guitars he made so many different songs some were happy, others were sad. Hope explained...

  44. Mariachi

    and lost love began to thrive. The performers usually wear traditional cowboy attire, and singers are accompanied by traditional instruments from the guitar family. While not nearly as common as mariachi, Ranchera is notable in that it represents a kind of crossover music. Modifications of the music include...

  45. ECO 415 Uop / UopHelp

    result is that 16. Figure 4.2 illustrates the demand for guitars. An increase in the demand for guitars is represented by the movement from 17. Figure 4.2 illustrates the demand for guitars. A decrease in the demand for guitars is represented by the movement from PAGE 5 18. An inferior...

  46. Musical Emotion to Metal

    guitarists, back up guitarists, bass player, and the drummer. Who all play a crucial part in the band. The lead guitarists usually use electric guitars. This guitars are heavily distorted and use a wamy bar and amp petal to further customize there sound. There is usually one part in every Classic metal songs...

  47. Me Nd Music

    buddy mike. I simply asked him if I learn how to play the guitar can I play with you guys. I got the answer that I was hoping for. He told me “if you are really serious then you are more then welcome.” Now all I have to do is somehow get a guitar and break out of my shell. Christmas time...

  48. A Soilder

    food is French fries, and most things that can be fried. He loves watching movies and rating them on the internet. Most of all he loves playing the guitar. He plays acoustic and electric in almost any style of music. When asked about his interest in movies he replied “[I like watching them so I can] escape...

  49. Brooks

    regarded as the best electric guitarist; period. Jimi was at the apex of innovation and the definition of a musical pioneer. He invented the technique of guitar feedback with overdriven amplifiers, still a staple in hard rock today. Hendrix had one of the most flashy and flamboyant seen anywhere, in fact he...

  50. THREE BASIC REQUIREMENTS OF HAPPINESS

    do a small exercise • List out your aspirations. • For e.g. having a good guitar, here two words are there 1 is good 2 guitar. Good is a feeling Guitar is a physical facility. Happiness is not finding with guitar, only it is good working condition then it gives happy. So physical facilities...

  51. The Beatles

    aunt and begged her for a guitar, Mimi bought him his first guitar John formed his first group “The Quarrymen” ( John Lennon, Pete Shotton, Ivan Vaughan, Nigel Walley)  Nigel Walley brought his Friend Paul McCartney to watch the band play and pick up girls he picked up a guitar and began to play and...

  52. Dolphins from the Black Sea

    Freddie got on famously with Brian and Roger and loved the sound that Smile had achieved; he also had immense admiration and respect for Brian's guitar-playing. Watching and listening to them made Freddie realized that he desperately wanted to be in a band himself; that early schoolboy exposure with...

  53. ECO 415 UOP Course Tutorial/ Tutorialrank

    result is that 16. Figure 4.2 illustrates the demand for guitars. An increase in the demand for guitars is represented by the movement from 17. Figure 4.2 illustrates the demand for guitars. A decrease in the demand for guitars is represented by the movement from PAGE 5 18. An...

  54. Rock History

    power trio was made possible in part by developments in amplifier and electric guitar/bass guitar technology that permit the instruments to provide more sound than before. Particularly, the advent of electric bass guitar defined the bottom end and filled in the gaps. Since the bass could also now...

  55. Lead Belly - Reasearch

    : Lead Belly was known as the King of the 12-String Guitar. PLACE OF BIRTH: Mooringsport, Louisiana PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York ORIGINALLY: Huddie William Ledbetter AKA: Huddie Ledbetter AKA: Lead Belly NICKNAME: King of the 12-String Guitar BEST KNOWN FOR Lead Belly was a folk-blues singer...

  56. korn

    early '90s, heavy music looked to be going the way of the dinosaurs: Well-heeled Brit-pop and well-scrubbed pop-punk were thoroughly dominating the guitar-rock landscape, and the few surviving old-school metal acts seemed hopelessly unable to adapt. But somewhere within the vast, murky Southern California...

  57. A Difference of Worlds: Classical or Pop/Rock

    discuss. Now that the music has been introduced, lets first look at the melody. The melody of “Shimmy the Peacock” primarily focuses on the guitar and is accompanied by the drums and keys. Just by listening to the song-with its heavy strings and percussion- the melody, staying true to the genre...

  58. Essay of Den

    The Blond Guitar by Jeremy Burden My most valuable possession is an old, slightly warped blond guitar--the first instrument I taught myself how to play. It's nothing fancy, just a Madeira folk guitar, all scuffed and scratched and finger-printed. At the top is a bramble of copper-wound strings, each...

  59. Anish

    released BROKEN (Pokhara) SEND FORTH THE COLONY (UK) Parash Shakya (ANTIM GRAHAN) Demonstealer (DEMONIC RESSURECTION) Pawan Gurung (BITTER EUPHEMISM) Guitar Workshop June 07 Metal Tremors June 14 International Music Day June 21 Gigantour 2008 Vhumi - VHUMI Watershed – OPETH Left Hand Path – ENTOMBED Tera...

  60. Law Question & Ans.

    ? * Whether there is a valid acceptance from Johari ? * Whether there is a consideration from Johari to Jim in order to buy the electric guitar ? * Whether is there a contract between the two parties, Jim and Johari? Law * Invitation to treat - A proposal is different from an...