guitar
(gɪtɑːʳ )
Word forms: guitars
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A guitar is a musical instrument with six strings and a long neck. You play the guitar by plucking or strumming the strings.
He sings and plays the guitar.
Image of guitar
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guitar hero guitar lesson guitar melody guitar pick guitar player guitar playing guitar riff guitar solo guitar strap guitar string jazz guitar lead guitar learn the guitar play guitar strum a guitar
However, the pioneering guitar hero has been forced to take the toughest decision of his 68-year-old life.
The Sun
The singer will be part guitar hero, part television.
Times, Sunday Times
In those days he was just another wannabe guitar hero on a club circuit routinely ignored by industry movers and shakers.
Times, Sunday Times
But the longtime guitar hero silenced his doubters with an extensive tour, as well as an all-new solo release.
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Shaped our sonic world - the template for guitar heroes everywhere.
Times, Sunday Times
A year after the move, a teacher gave her class a guitar lesson.
Times, Sunday Times
I could be having a guitar lesson and something will just come to me, the former observed.
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He has played guitar since he was 8 years old, but has never had one single guitar lesson.
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I never took a guitar lesson, nobody believes that.
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He was self-taught after having only a single guitar lesson.
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Regarding it as another immediate radio hit, it was described as a mid-tempo number marked by a prominent electric guitar melody and new wave synths.
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An additional guitar melody and drums enter shortly after with lonesome singing.
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The pre chorus features a memorable lead guitar melody before seguing into the distorted chorus.
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Following the lyrics, the loud guitar melody returns.
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That came into play coupled with my suggestion of bongo rock-type breaks for an arrangement, a drum-solo type of song with a simple guitar melody.
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He began playing at 14 and strums using an artificial limb with a guitar pick fixed at the end.
The Sun
You can hear his sudden intakes of breath and his guitar pick squeaking on the strings.
Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes guitars are outfitted with pick guards which prevent the guitar from being scratched by a guitar pick.
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There have been many innovations in the design of the guitar pick.
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A limited-edition guitar pick was unveiled a day after the artwork was revealed.
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It sounds like a drunk drummer, a drunk guitar player, a bass player who's never heard the song and the singer doesn't know the words.
The Sun
I wanted to play the guitar because no one was cooler than the guitar player.
Times, Sunday Times
I wanted more tangible things out of life - like to be a good guitar player.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite being a decent guitar player, he's only had one go.
Times, Sunday Times
She's a decent guitar player, too.
Times, Sunday Times
YOUR acoustic guitar playing sets you apart from most rappers.
The Sun (2006)
Why couldn't anyone copy his guitar playing?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The ace guitar playing and tone are there, plus that plaintive voice.
The Sun (2010)
Romantic ballad built around a chiming, cyclical guitar riff.
The Sun (2009)
The heavier guitar riff which underlies this jittery paced indie rock track makes it one of the band's strongest releases in a while.
The Sun (2010)
This single has a cracking chorus, sweet harmonies and a heavy guitar riff.
The Sun (2008)
Backed by an incessant guitar riff which explodes into a rock stomp.
The Sun (2008)
Complete with ace guitar solo and scorched-earth vocals.
The Sun
And, if some other musician did add a vocal here or a guitar solo there, they had the decency to keep quiet about it.
Times, Sunday Times
It ends with a bizarre guitar solo: faltering, almost amateurish, yet utterly sublime.
Times, Sunday Times
It has a guitar solo that still rings out of guitar shops and bedrooms throughout the world.
Times, Sunday Times
You are booed for a poor performance but gain the adulation of the crowd for nailing a guitar solo.
Times, Sunday Times
Then she got her beehive tangled in her guitar strap.
The Sun
Surely he could now afford a guitar strap instead of a piece of string?
Times, Sunday Times
The 7-100 has a few notable features, the first being the buttons to fit a guitar strap to it.
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He then said he couldn't play without a guitar strap, at which time the rope was tied to the guitar.
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Has her own business designing personalised guitar straps.
The Sun
A shoestring and with many a guitar string.
Times, Sunday Times
The net was 'tensioned like a guitar string' and was secured at one end to the lorry cab.
Times, Sunday Times
This' relict stress' theory implies that the ringing rock boulders act much like a guitar string.
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All the strings are of the same thickness, and are made of very thin metal wire, far thinner than the thinnest guitar string.
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The song starts with a guitar string plucked and whammied, before dropping into the drum track.
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He played guitar and trombone, big-band stuff, jazz guitar.
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Each one of these musicians helped him in his learning process of the necessary vocabulary of jazz guitar and music in its general aspects.
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There, he focused on contemporary writing and production with the jazz guitar as his main instrument.
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At that time there was no curriculum for jazz guitar, so he chose composition as his major.
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From 1937 to 1941, he worked in both an era and a location renowned for the jazz guitar.
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Over the years, he developed a choppy style in which he plays both rhythm and lead guitar.
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Strong vocal and lead guitar.
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He would play in a succession of rock bands on lead guitar.
Times, Sunday Times
The lead guitar player also handles the vocal chores.
Globe and Mail
And lead guitar was hardly on his list of instruments to learn.
The Sun
That night, he decided he would learn the guitar.
Times, Sunday Times
A life- long fan of pop, jazz and classical music, the band was born after she replied to an ad in a local paper to learn the guitar.
Times, Sunday Times
At the age of 5, she began to study the piano and, after starting school, she started to learn the guitar.
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He took piano lessons but did not enjoy it, so he chose to learn the guitar instead.
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When he was thirteen, his best friend learned the guitar, and decided to learn to.
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I taught myself to play guitar, although it couldn't nullify my geekiness.
Times, Sunday Times
They like guys who can play guitar, properly.
Times, Sunday Times
Although she could no longer play guitar, her distinctive singing and tambourine featured.
Times, Sunday Times
In fact, we learned alone to play guitar in our traditional tone.
The Sun
He was left-handed but his dad made him write and play guitar right-handed.
Times, Sunday Times
Now he has to put up with her strumming the guitar.
The Sun
And are you going to be interested in watching an artist lying in a bathtub strumming his guitar?
Times, Sunday Times
First he strums a guitar (bless), then he smokes something rather joint-like.
Times, Sunday Times
On stage, strumming her guitar and gazing out into the crowd, she can sometimes still appear ill at ease.
Times, Sunday Times
He strummed his guitar gently as an accompaniment to our conversation.
The Sun
Translations:
Chinese: 吉他
Japanese: ギター