Styles of guitar music.

• Acid Jazz - a combination of jazz,funk,and hip hop
• Acid Rock - a form of psychedelic rock, characterized with long instrumental solos, few (if any) lyrics and musical improvisation
• AcoustiCana - AcoustiCana is an emerging American acoustic musical genre with roots in Old-Time, Bluegrass, Country, Blues, Folk, & Americana.
• Acoustic - a music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.
• Alternative country - reaction against the 1990s highly-polished Nashville sound
• Alternative metal - catch-all term for heavy metal which uses techniques less conventional in heavy metal
• Alternative rock - broad movement born in the 1980s generally relegated to the underground music scene and operating outside of the mainstream
• Ballad - generic term for usually slow, romantic, despairing and catastrophic songs
• Baroque music - 17th-18th century European classical music
• Blues-rock - a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles.
• Bluegrass - American country music mixed with Irish and Scottish influences
• Britpop
• Classic rock
• Death metal
• Fusion jazz - mixture of rock and jazz
• Funk - a bass-heavy outgrowth of soul music
• Finger-style
• Delta blues
• Heavy metal
• Indie music
• Jazz
• Jazz fusion
• Metal
• Pop music
• Progressive rock
• Psychedelic music
• Punk rock
• Reggae
• Rock and roll
• Surf rock
• Thrash metal