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Plucking
Plucking means producing sound by pulling and releasing a string.
Level relevance: introduced at Nat 3; tagged for every later level where the same concept remains useful.
Explanation
Plucking affects attack, tone, and level, which matters when recording guitar, bass, harp, strings, sampled instruments, or synthesised plucked sounds.
Topics
Sound sourcesPerformanceRecording
Curriculum statusofficial concept
Review statusdraft
Sources
- National 5 Music Technology course specification, May 2023, version 3.0 · accessed 2026-07-08
Used for the National 3, National 4, and National 5 technology and music concept tables.