pizzicato

adjective, adverb. pizzicato [adjective, adverb] (music) played by plucking the strings of a musical instrument, not using the bow.

Pizzicato, meaning pinched in Italian, is a technique that involves plucking violin strings with one's fingers instead of using a violin bow. This results in a distinctive staccato sound with shorter percussive notes.

(pɪtsɪkɑːtoʊ ) Word forms: plural pizzicatos. adverb [ADVERB after verb] If a stringed instrument is played pizzicato, it is played by pulling the strings with the fingers rather than by using the bow.

On the classical guitar, pizzicato is an effect that imitates the pizzicato of bowed-string instruments such as the violin or cello. To imitate this sound, the guitarist filters out the high frequencies of the note and shortens its decay.

Pizzicato means to pluck the strings instead, and this is normally done with your index finger. Pizzicato creates a very different sound to bowing. While bowing creates sustained notes that melt into one another, pizzicato creates more of a percussive sound.

Staccato: A short, non-bouncing bow stroke, where the bow does not leave the string. Pizzicato: The string is picked with the index finger of the bowing hand. Pizzicato creates a very different, almost percussive sound compared to bowing.

Place your fingers on the string firmly, hook your finger a bit besides the strings and move it sideways and upward at the same time as you release the string. First practice this with all fingers on all strings. After that try leave your fingers on the string while plucking and practice left hand pizzicato in scales.

Compared with pizzicato (plucking the string), the bow allows the player to continuously input energy and so to maintain a note. This is important to the timbre, too: after a pluck, the high harmonics fade away quickly, leaving only the fundamental and some weak lower harmonics.

It is not good enough to simply twang the strings. The result will be a note which sounds dead. To obtain a pizzicato note which will carry, the string must be firmly pulled with the fleshy part of the right hand in a direction to the right of the player at an angle of about 10 degrees to the fingerboard.

[ pit-si-kah-toh; Italian peet-tsee-kah-taw ] show ipa. adjective. played by plucking the strings with the finger instead of using the bow, as on a violin.

It is not good enough to simply twang the strings. The result will be a note which sounds dead. To obtain a pizzicato note which will carry, the string must be firmly pulled with the fleshy part of the right hand in a direction to the right of the player at an angle of about 10 degrees to the fingerboard.

ARCO. “With the bow” “Arco” is the Italian word for “bow.” It serves as a musical instruction to indicate that a strings player should play the passage using one's bow, as opposed to plucking the strings by hand (“pizzicato”).