Arts Toolkit: Music Handout

Multiple-Choice Questions

Traditional Guitar Styles

1. The guitar player who had a major influence on the Kentucky guitarists in the video, Eddie Pennington and Jess Aldridge, was
   1. Bill Monroe.
   2. Bob Dylan.
   3. Merle Travis.
   4. Travis Tritt.


2. Traditional musicians are best described as musicians who
   1. are often self-taught or learned from other musicians.
   2. must have formal training in order to perform.
   3. all play the same kind of guitar.
   4. all play in a thumb-picking style.


3. A style of picking is
   1. thumb-picking.
   2. flat-picking.
   3. finger-picking.
   4. all of these.

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