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Delta Blues (dɛ́ltə blúz ) was one of the very first types of Blues Music. It started in the humble Mississippi Delta Region. This type of music makes great use of the guitar, harmonica, and what is known as a cigar box guitar. Delta Blues places emphasis on the rythmn and the bottleneck slide. Though […]

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Downpicking (downpicking) is a style in which the guitarist uses the guitar pick sequentially on the instrument

The Ebow (ee-baw) or electronic bow (also sometimes referred to as an “energy bow”) is a hand-held device used to augment the sound of a guitar as it’s played. With an ebow, the strings are played with an electromagnetic field. This is done in the place of picking the strings with fingers or a guitar pick. The electromagnetic field created by the ebow creates a continuous unique tone, which is unlike any other sound that could normally be created by playing a guitar. The sound and tone the ebow creates can be changed by changing the linear direction of the device on the string, which changes the string harmonics.

Economy Picking (?k??n?mi p??k??) is a technique used to conserve energy and increase the speed of playing by a guitarist. It utilizes alternate picking while on the same string, but uses sweep picking while going to a different string. Doing so minimizes the movement of the picking hand and eliminates jumping over strings which happens when using just alternate picking. Economy picking has been used since the 1950’s with it first being introduced with jazz, but has become wide spread since the 1980’s, being found in a wide variety of genres.

Electric Blues (əlɛ́ktrɪk blúz ) is a subgenre of Blues music that is unique, due to its amplified guitar, bass guitar, drums, and even harmonicas.This Blues sound replaced the normal bass guitar with the double bass. It uses guitar techniques that include distortion and power chords, producing a much louder sound and bass line. What […]

An Electric Guitar (?l?ktr?k g?t?r) is a type of guitar that is capable of converting the vibration of the guitar strings into electric audio signals. When a string is played on an electric guitar, the vibration of that string creates an electric current in the part of the guitar referred to as the “pickup”. This electromagnetic currents flows through a connecting cable and, via an amplifier, comes out of a loud speaker as sound. This process is referred to as direct electromagnetic induction. The signal of the guitar can be altered to produce a different type of sound through using an effects units.