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Acoustic Guitar
Six strings over a wooden box.
1 · Hear it
Listen twice: once alone, once with the band. The second one is how you'll actually hear it in songs.
2 · What it actually is
Plucked strings whose vibration is amplified by the hollow body.
Its job
Strums chords for rhythm, or picks out a melody line.
Listen for
A pick attack, then a woody ring that fades.
You've heard it in: Folk, country, singer-songwriter, pop verses.
3 · Words that go with it