guitarist
Also known as guitar player, guitarists
thumb|right|250px|Guitar players in the city centre of Buenos Aires. A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica, or both.
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A guitarist is a person who plays the guitar, an instrument that comes in several types including classical, acoustic, electric, and bass guitars. Guitarists are important to music across many genres, and some enhance their performances by singing or playing harmonica alongside their guitar playing.
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- Techniques
- Notable guitarists
- Rock, metal, jazz, country and blues
- Rolling Stone
- ''Guitar World''
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- World War II era
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thumb|right|250px|Guitar players in the city centre of Buenos Aires. A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica, or both.
==Techniques== The guitarist may employ any of several methods for sounding the guitar, including finger-picking, depending on the type of strings used (either nylon or steel), and including strumming with the fingers, or a guitar pick made of bone, horn, plastic, metal, felt, leather, or paper, and melodic flatpicking and finger-picking.