Guitar sound effects

One downward stroke across all six strings, left to ring out. The card most edits reach for, because a single strum reads as a beginning and buys four seconds of movement without becoming music.

A rough metallic zip along a wound bass string. Guitarists spend years hiding this noise, which is exactly why it works as a transition when you put it in front deliberately.

A pure bell-like tone with none of the body of a normal note. It sounds closer to a chime than a guitar, so it can mark a moment without dragging a whole musical genre in with it.

Four dull downstrokes with the palm killing every ring. Pitch is almost gone here, so what is left is rhythm, which makes it usable under narration where an open chord would not be.

Knuckles on the wooden soundboard, hollow and short. It gives you a percussive hit that still belongs to the instrument, which is why it works as punctuation inside a musical sequence.

Single notes picked slowly so each one is still ringing when the next arrives. The overlap builds a continuous shimmer, which covers a long stretch without ever committing to a melody.