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Encyclopedia > Lead guitarist

Lead guitar refers to a role within a popular music band, especially a rock band, that provides melody or melodic material, as opposed to the rhythm of the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums. A lead guitarist typically plays solos, improvised or wrote passages played with the accompaniment of the rest of the band. Lead guitarists also often, during the rest of a song, play riffs or repeating melodic figures. Lead guitar may also provide fills during the pauses of the lead singer between phrases or sections. Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ... In music, a band is a group of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of a musical arrangement. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... }} Wiktionary has a definition of: Melody In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. ... Rhythm (Greek ρυθμός = tempo) is the variation of the duration of sounds or other events over time. ... Rhythm guitar is the role of the guitar in playing accompaniment in various musical styles. ... Fender Precision Bass Bass Guitar is a popular term that refers to electric and acoustic basses - stringed instruments similar in design to the guitar, but with longer scale and tuned lower in pitch. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set - the latter an old-fashioned term) is a collection of drums, cymbals and other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a sole percussionist (drummer), usually for jazz, rock, or other types of contemporary music. ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ... This article is about the musical term solo; for other uses, see solo. ... Improvisation is the act of making something up as it is performed. ... A riff is an ostinato figure: a repeated chord progression or melodic figure, often played by the rhythm section instruments, that forms the basis or accompaniment of a rock music or jazz composition. ... In civil engineering, a Fill is an artificial ridge or dam of earth or gravel constructed to support a prepared right-of-way such as a railroad or highway across a valley or depression. ... In music a phrase is a section of music that is relatively self contained and coherent over a medium time scale. ... Section can be: A cross section (in the common sense or the physics sense) In mathematics: A conic section A section of a fiber bundle or sheaf A Caesarean section In UK law, Section 28 In the fictional Star Trek universe, Section 31 A military unit A section (land) is...


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Lead guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (387 words)
Lead guitar refers to a role within a popular music band, especially a rock band, that provides melody or melodic material, as opposed to the rhythm of the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums.
Speed picking, arpeggiating and fret tapping are some of the techniques used by today's guitarists to maximize the speed of their riffs.
While lead guitar styles are often characterised by the individual sound of the guitarist, the majority of lead guitarists have a regular set of effects which help them to define their sound, making it similar in some ways to the variation in individual voices.
Introduction To Lead Guitar. Part 1 | Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com (1761 words)
In a band with two guitarists, the rhythm guitarist is the one who plays the "structure" of the song; he/she plays the chords that backup the vocals and help create the overall feel of the song.
Lead guitarists are the more glamorous and "rock star" type, as they are characterized by their mastery of the fretboard.
Lead guitarists add solos to songs, and often use the structure provided by the rhythm guitarist's work as a foundation for their improvisation.
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