Guitar petting is a genre of traditional Lampung music with solo guitar performance used to accompany songs. This guitar play is commonly used in Lampung traditional processions. Overall, this guitar play always goes along with by songs using the Lampung language. This is a qualitative research with an ethnographic approach. The function of the guitar in the Lampung community is as a communication means between a boy and a girl and as an entertainment. Guitar petting is played by strings picked one by one or broken chords played in a rising or descending order. Lampung guitar petting can be played by one person as a guitar player and a singer or can be performed by two people with one guitarist and one vocalist. The coastal tribal guitar petting uses original standard and classical tuning and the Phrygian mode. This guitar petting accompaniment uses improvisation, so that a player can vary in strumming the guitar and on the chords contained in the song. Chords used are the iii, v, and vi chords. Lampung coastal tribe's guitar petting also uses slur technique, and the accompaniment rhythm they make includes slimpat. This rhythm is almost the same as the dangdut pattern but different.

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