Editing Extended technique (section)

=== Plucked string instruments ===
* [[bowed guitar|using a bow]]
* playing with percussion sticks, mallets, or other objects
* playing on crossed strings (called "snare drum effect" on guitar)
* snap pizzicato, in which a string is pulled away from the fingerboard until it snaps back and strikes the fingerboard.
* string scrapes, a technique especially associated with electric guitar and electric bass, as played with a pick.
* percussive effects, such as drumming on a string instrument body 
* palm and finger muting ("pizzicato")
* [[tapping]] on the fingerboard
* string pops and slaps (fingerboard instruments)
* [[prepared guitar|preparation]] of a guitar by inserting screws or pieces of metal in the bridge or between the strings.
* detuning a string while playing
* "[[3rd bridge]]", a guitar technique using the part of the string between the nut and the stopping finger; see [[Iannis Xenakis|Xenakis]]' [[cello]] piece ''[[Nomos Alpha]]'' for a similar effect.