noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a piano/guitar etc lesson
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I'd just started classical guitar lessons.
air guitar
bass guitar
piano/orchestral/organ/guitar etc accompaniment
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He plays folk music with guitar accompaniment.
steel guitar
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acoustic
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Buckingham used his Takamine for a lot of the acoustic parts, but various electrics and other acoustic guitars were also employed.
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Just an acoustic guitar and a backdrop of the sun shining.
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National made these instruments specifically to be the loudest acoustic guitars in existence - and they succeeded.
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I did the acoustic hillbilly guitar on it - you can really hear the guitar at the end.
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At a photo-session violinist Nigel Kennedy would initially only pose with a one-stringed acoustic guitar .
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Regarding a transducer pickup for your acoustic guitar , Washburn will happily suggest the correct model to fit the D70.
bass
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In this case just swapping between bass and guitar is no problem.
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Gregory's bass guitar was out of tune because of a wayward string and none of the group had guitar tuners.
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Hard knee is great for bass guitar , when it's actually okay for the compression to be heard.
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Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined.
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Then there's Phil - bass guitar .
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So, impressed by him, I got myself a bass guitar .
classical
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He played classical guitar , and our music class was one of the most enjoyable hours for me.
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He won his first formal competition, in Classical / flamenco guitar , when he was 10.
electric
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Today, it's difficult to imagine how electric guitars were received in an environment where rock'n'roll did not exist.
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At Motown, electric guitars , sometimes as many as four, were locked in intricate patterns.
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He basically composes music for electric guitars , and he does some wild things.
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Are you addicted to the thrashing of electric guitars ?
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I tried without success to imagine an electric guitar being learnt in this house.
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Flightcase for electric guitar , £25.
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I would argue that virtually every successful electric guitar since 1958 has owed something to one or more of the above-mentioned instruments.
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I fought my way through the crowd and there's these kids playing electric guitars through this tiny amp.
great
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What is really great about this guitar is that it is such an uncomplicated affair.
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Eric Clapton, Greg Allman and many other great guitar players were big fans of his.
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It's a great guitar and I love the way it sounds and the way it plays.
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Flanked by the great guitars of the ears, his hair lay thin over the orange-peel scalp, in white worms.
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So just where does Bernard stand on the great guitar solo debate?
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Hard knee is great for bass guitar , when it's actually okay for the compression to be heard.
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It's a great guitar that deserves to scale considerable heights.
■ NOUN
band
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Ride do not seem to have developed very much since then, just quietly maturing into a dependable guitar band .
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The average guitar band is achingly banal in comparison.
jazz
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There's a double cutaway arrangement and it's a very different body shape from any jazz guitar that I've seen.
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If you think of all jazz guitar music as boring bebop stuff, think again.
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Gibson have also announced some new instruments, including the first Gibson basses ever modelled on the ES-175 jazz guitar body.
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Fender left-handed Jazz guitar with case, £275.
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Gibson L-50 jazz guitar , 1936, all original with original case, £575 ono.
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What I like about jazz guitar is that it's so true.
lead
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And he's a great musician - lead guitar .
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Digital keyboards are added to the usual lead guitar , bass, drums and high-pitched vocals.
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Other members are: Phil Jennings, lead guitar .
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I love you l love you while the lead guitar giggles and the drummer's tongue lies wetly in his opened mouth.
music
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Where the confusion seems to stem from is the fact that guitar music sounds an octave lower than concert pitch.
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If you think of all jazz guitar music as boring bebop stuff, think again.
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You know, when the Beatles started there was a record company guy who said electric guitar music was finished.
player
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Eric Clapton, Greg Allman and many other great guitar players were big fans of his.
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The guitar player strummed along respectfully.
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For me, as a guitar player , the first thing I did was plug my guitar in!
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I realised I wanted another guitar player .
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She would be satisfied with her fantasy man, Miguel the guitar player .
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Maybe they're songwriters - they don't really care about really good guitar players .
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I'd like to be a rhythm guitar player in a band!
rhythm
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I'd like to be a rhythm guitar player in a band!
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Then a nervously repetitious rhythm guitar pattern is added, just before the drums kick in with a churning fatback pattern.
solo
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Trouble is, I can't ever remember how to play the guitar solo !
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So just where does Bernard stand on the great guitar solo debate?
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No-one realises how f-in' hard it is to scream at the top of your lungs and concentrate on playing guitar solos .
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It is difficult to write down a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo and still harder to play it from such a notated version.
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This encourages improvisation, and enables the improviser to play at length and elaborately, as in the guitar solo by Eric Clapton.
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And the one thing that myself and my friends all absolutely hated was guitar solos !
sound
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Black Sun Ensemble rely on the kind of guitar sound that floats almost too closely into jazz fusion territory.
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At the beginning, the guitar sound rises with a shimmer from silence.
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A touch of stereo chorus coupled with a fairly bright guitar sound should also help.
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Just what is an ideal guitar sound ?
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I don't use as many effects as I used to; it's pretty much straight guitar sound with delay.
steel
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They should get themselves a steel guitar .
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Herron rounded out the band with some fiddle and steel guitar .
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Cook, who tears up the steel guitar and trombone.
string
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In fact, such sounds may be picked up in their whiskers, resonating like guitar strings , rather than by their ears.
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Saconi tell me please to ask Big Sally bring a next set of guitar string .
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Complaints were of insufficient guitar strings , paints and brushes.
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I had nothing to do with the recording and creative side but I changed guitar strings and that kind of thing.
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Whatever else you do, please avoid musicianly prattle about your favourite brand of guitar strings .
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Their performances were shambolic with guitar strings snapping - as ever - and the timing fluctuating erratically.
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Some of them have people there just to change the guitar strings .
work
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However, most of the guitar work on the album is done with a Lowden, a really sweet-sounding guitar.
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His acoustic guitar work is considered the standard by which all other flamenco players are now measured.
■ VERB
buy
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I don't buy guitars to put up in a cabinet on the wall.
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Did your brother buy his guitar ?
pick
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Miguel picked up his guitar from where it was lying on the sofa so that she could sit down.
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He can flick a football over his head with perfect control, pick up a guitar and find a tune.
play
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His hands were so cold he could hardly play the guitar .
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For starters, he plays piano, not guitar , and acoustic piano at that.
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And if you want to play then there are guitar classes too.
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The thing it became was an experimental format where Reynolds played guitar , tweaking and warping the sound using effects.
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His long hair was tied back in a scarf and he was playing guitar to a whistling song.
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Students could learn how to play folk guitar or sing and perform in opera.
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I don't, but I do use the soap to play air guitar in the shower.
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This product is not a real guitar and can not teach you how to play a real guitar.
start
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Sure was, he didn't have any interest personally in music until he was 20 when he started playing the guitar .
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Boyle's family moved to London when he was eight and he started on guitar at fifteen with private lessons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He played classical guitar , and our music class was one of the most enjoyable hours for me.
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It's very difficult to describe sounds, but the humbuckers fitted to this guitar exhibit real tone.
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It is a slow, stomping thing with grunting; the guitars hate us and the drums are thick and stupid.
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The album is an absolute feast of fully cranked guitar and catchy pop choruses.
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The thing it became was an experimental format where Reynolds played guitar , tweaking and warping the sound using effects.
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Then I saw a gaggle of youths arriving with guitar cases for a recording session, and I changed my mind.
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There are no frets or strings on the guitar neck, and thus nothing to do with your left hand.
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Yamaha's factory in Kaohsiung has been building guitars now for over twenty years ... Neville Martenflies East.