guitarist

Noun

Meaning

a musician who plays the guitar

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

axeman guitar player fiddler harper music player bass picker electric musician performer drummer soprano instrumentalist accordionist

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Hypernyms

player musician instrumentalist

Phrases with the word

guitarist's tool guitarist in a jazz band 12-string guitarist guitarist in a rock band

Examples

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. John Mayer

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up. Alvin Lee

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. David Amram

If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist. Robin Trower

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats. Alex Van Halen

A good guitarist will play on one string. South American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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