Country & Folk Unit Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Acoustic music about peace, nature, and love
  2. 8. Another name for a pick
  3. 9. Tuning Tuning the guitar strings to pitches other than E/A/D/G/B/E
  4. 12. Country style named after Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys
  5. 14. Accompaniment string instrument in Bluegrass and string bands
  6. 15. Picking A picking style developed by Merle Travis giving rolling effect
  7. 16. Style Three finger style of banjo playing associated with Bluegrass music.
  8. 18. Finger Style Banjo style in Bluegrass Music developed by Earl Scruggs
  9. 20. A variety of background music that plays the chord progression behind the melody
  10. 21. Picking Playing the guitar with a plectrum rather than fingers
  11. 22. Bluegrass name for a violin
Down
  1. 1. Style of music associated with Western and Southern United States
  2. 3. Pick Small ring with a plectrum attached placed on the thumb
  3. 4. Rock Folk music using amplified instruments
  4. 5. Tuning Tuning a guitar so that strumming produces a major chord
  5. 6. Pluck a string and then push the string towards the ceiling
  6. 7. Style Playing the melody in the lower strings and accompaniment on the upper strings.
  7. 10. Band Country music band with guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and bass
  8. 11. brush Also known as clawhammer using a thumb stroke then flick back of hand
  9. 13. Bass Playing chords with bass notes alternating between the root and third or fifth
  10. 14. Slide Sliding a glass or metal tube on the fingerboard
  11. 17. Moving along the same string after plucking
  12. 19. Small string instrument in Bluegrass String Band