Characteristics:
1. Highly Rhythmical: extensive use of sixteenth note rhythms and syncopations.
2. Chord shapes focus mainly on the top three or four strings.
3. Scratching: playing a rhythm without pitch – a percussive sound.
4. Single note lines instead of chords
5. Clean Guitar sound – stratocaster 2nd position is the classic sound.
6. Sliding into positions with chord shapes
7. Groove-based
