| Keyword | Excerpt (click on keyword for complete article) |
| Arpeggio | From It.: "Harp-like." Also called "broken chord" or "staggered chord."Playing the notes in a chord one at a time rather than simultaeously. |
| Barré chord | See Barré. |
| Broken chord | See Arpeggio. |
| Campanella | "Bell like". A technique occasionally used by guitarists. Successive notes in a melodic line are played on different strings, allowing the notes to overlap each other. |
| Choking | See String bending. |
| Circular breathing | Playing technique used on various wind instruments where the player breathes in while still maintaining the air flow through the instrument. |
| Clarino (2) | Originally a brass instruments, the word clarino is no used to describe the upper register of the trumpet. |
| Clawhammer (1) | Playing technique for the five-string banjo. It must not be fonfused with the guitar clawhammer which is a very different technique. Characteristic of clawhammer is that the strings are dow |
| Clawhammer (2) | Playing technique on the guitar with a steady alternating bass interceptd with various picking patterns on the treble strings. It should not be confused with the banjo clawhammer which is a very diffe |
| Continuo | (It.) Abbreviation of basso continuo. |
| Cross-fingering | Technique use on woodwind instruments, especially on key-less flutes. Cross-fingering or "fork fingering" means that one or more "middle" fingering holes are open while others further down on the inst |
| Cross harp | Playing technique for the harmonica and especially the Richter harmonica where the musician plays in a key one fifth above the key the instrument is tuned in - as opposed to straight harp where the mu |
| Crosspicking | Flapicking in a regular pattern across the strings, to produce rhythms and sound similar to fingerpicking. Typically a crosspicking pattern will go over three strings, beginning with two downstrokes a |
| Drum roll | (No.: "trommevirvel" or "virvel") A drum roll (or just "roll") is a series of beat on a drum played rapid enough to create the impression of continuous sound from the instrument. |
| Embouchure | (Fr.) The correct position of lips to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument to produce accurate intonation and good tone. |
| Falsett | See Falsetto. |
| Falsetto | The extreme upper range of the male voice. The falsetto register sound much softer than the rest of the voice range and is also much more difficult to control. It's still used by many singers both for |
| Fausset | See Falsetto. |
| Fingerpicking | Picking the notes on a stringed instrument (guitar, banjo etc.) with the fingers.The term is mainly used in Country and Western and US folk music but occasionally heard elsewhere too. |
| Flageolet (1) | An overtone used as a musical not, usually on a stringed instrument. |
