Guitar Styles and Genres
Learn how real musical styles are built on String Warrior — the feel, chords, scales, and rhythm behind blues, funk, reggae, metal, jazz, and country.
Pick a style to see its groove, its go-to scales and progressions, and the techniques that make it sound the part.
Blues Guitar
The 12-bar form, shuffle feel, and expressive bends that gave rock and jazz their vocabulary.
Shuffle / swung eighthsFunk Guitar
Tight 16th-note grooves, percussive muted scratches, and dominant-chord vamps.
16th-note grooveReggae Guitar
The off-beat "skank" upstroke, relaxed one-drop feel, and minor-key vamps.
Off-beat skankMetal Guitar
Palm-muted downpicked riffs, pedal tones, and dark Phrygian and harmonic-minor scales.
Driving downpicked eighthsJazz Guitar
Extended chords, ii-V-I turnarounds, swung comping, and modal soloing.
Swung eighthsCountry Guitar
Boom-chick alternating bass, bright major keys, and Nashville-number progressions.
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