folk guitarist
Woody Guthrie type
A folk guitarist is a musician who plays guitar in the folk music tradition, typically using acoustic instruments and fingerpicking or strumming techniques associated with traditional songs and storytelling.
The term often implies someone who performs solo or in small ensembles, accompanying vocals with relatively simple, accessible arrangements: She started out as a folk guitarist in Greenwich Village coffeehouses.
- acousticRelating to sound
- steel stringsMetal filaments for fretted instruments
- fingerpickingPlucking strings by hand
- open tuningPreset chord fingering eliminated
- strummingSweeping across guitar strings
ballad · protest song · troubadour · singer-songwriter · Woody Guthrie · coffeehouse · open-mic · protest · woody · Bob Dylan · capo · fretboard · storyteller · harmonica · Greenwich Village · busker · campfire · front porch
- folk musiciansfiddler, balladeer, troubadour, wandering minstrel, minstrel
- guitaristsJimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen
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Loud rock instrumentalist
electric guitarist · rock guitarist · classical guitarist · DJ · shredder
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Musician playing fingerstyle acoustic repertoire
heavy metal guitarist · concert pianist · opera singer · pop star · glam rocker
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