Guitar Skills and Test

Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having "a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides. The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, has been applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times and as such causes confusion. The English word guitar, the German Gitarre, and the French guitare were all adopted from the Spanish guitarra, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic قيثارة (qīthārah) and the Latin cithara, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithara)

At least two instruments called "guitars" were in use in Spain by 1200: the guitarra latina (Latin guitar) and the so-called guitarra morisca (Moorish guitar). The guitarra morisca had a rounded back, wide fingerboard, and several sound holes. The guitarra Latina had a single sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers "moresca" or "morisca" and "latina" had been dropped, and these two cordophones were simply referred to as guitars. Antonio Torres invented the first guitar in 1850 in Spain.

 

1. Headstock
2. Nut
3. Machine heads (or pegheads, tuning keys, tuning machines, tuners)
4. Frets
5. Truss rod
6. Inlays
7. Neck
8. Heel (acoustic) Neckjoint (electric)
9. Body

Test

1. Which song did you play for your Guitar test and why?
- I chose Lost Stars a song by Adam Levine from the movie Begin Again. I like the lyrics of this song and the way Adam Levine sang it with feelings.

2. How did you feel about performing?
- Last time I was nervous and scared by this time I wasn't. Because I already performed it in front of Ms. Beer.

3. What would you change if you performed again?
- I would love to memorise the first lyric of the song, when I performed I forgot the first lyric and I needed to ask my friend haha.