Among alternative tunings for guitar, each augmented-fourths tuning is a regular tuning in which the musical intervals between successive open-string...
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tuning 4 semitones (major third): Major-thirds or Augmented tuning, 5 semitones (perfect fourth): All-fourths tuning, 6 semitones (augmented fourth,...
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all-fourths tuning; he has stated that all-fourths tuning "simplifies the fingerboard, making it logical". Among all regular tunings, all-fourths tuning E-A-D-G-C-F...
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strings of the M3 tunings, for example, the open augmented C tuning. A♭–C–E–A♭–C–E. For each M3 tuning, the open strings form an augmented triad in two octaves...
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(or down) in major-thirds tuning, and chords can be moved two strings up (or down) in augmented-fourths tuning. Regular tunings thus appeal to new guitarists...
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tuning, major-thirds tuning, and augmented-fourths tuning (but not major seconds tuning, which is not repetitive on six strings). Among open tunings,...
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ISBN 978-0-88188-423-4. Sethares (2001, "The augmented fourths tuning" 60–61) Sethares (2001, "The mandoguitar tuning" 62–63) Lou Reed biography Archived 2017-03-17...
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(D3) with the E standard tuning. C-G-D-A-A-E All-fifths tuning is closely related to all-fourths tuning. All-fifths tuning is based on the perfect fifth...
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tunings include major-thirds (M3), all-fourths, augmented-fourths, and all-fifths tunings. For each regular tuning, chord patterns may be diagonally shifted...
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Pythagorean tuning is a system of musical tuning in which the frequency ratios of all intervals are determined by choosing a sequence of fifths which are...
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Tritone (redirect from Augmented fourth)
In addition, augmented sixth chords, some of which are enharmonic to dominant seventh chords, contain tritones spelled as augmented fourths (for example...
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Interval (music) (section Augmented and diminished)
between the size of intervals in different tuning systems, see § Size of intervals used in different tuning systems. The standard system for comparing...
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New standard tuning (NST) is an alternative tuning for the guitar that approximates all-fifths tuning. The guitar's strings are assigned the notes C2-G2-D3-A3-E4-G4...
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meanings for tuning: Tuning practice, the act of tuning an instrument or voice. Tuning systems, the various systems of pitches used to tune an instrument...
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perfect fourth, because the note F is the fifth semitone above C, and there are four staff positions between C and F. Diminished and augmented fourths span...
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fifths and fourths are octave complements, rising by perfect fourths produces the same result as rising by fifths. All regular diatonic tunings are also...
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In music theory, an augmented sixth chord contains the interval of an augmented sixth, usually above its bass tone. This chord has its origins in the...
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semitones wide, and the interval from C to D♯ is an augmented second, spanning three semitones. Augmented seconds occur in many scales, including the various...
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Quartal and quintal harmony (redirect from Fourth chord)
perfect fourth, the augmented fourth and the diminished fourth. For instance, a three-note quartal chord on C can be built by stacking perfect fourths, C–F–B♭...
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augmented second, or major third and diminished fourth, or perfect fourth and augmented third, or augmented fourth and diminished fifth, or perfect fifth and...
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Semitone (section Augmented unison)
cents). In other tuning systems, "semitone" refers to a family of intervals that may vary both in size and name. In Pythagorean tuning, seven semitones...
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Wolf interval (redirect from Wolf fourth)
instance, in quarter comma meantone, the augmented second, augmented third, augmented fifth, diminished fourth, and diminished seventh may be called wolf...
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standard Richter tuned harp. For example: Augmented tuning Diminished tuning Dorian Cross tuning Scale tuning Solo tuning "Alternate Tunings for Harmonicas...
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Meantone temperament (redirect from Meantone tuning)
musical temperaments; that is, a variety of tuning systems constructed, similarly to Pythagorean tuning, as a sequence of equal fifths, both rising and...
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Septimal tritone (redirect from Super-fourth)
to a 6:5 minor third plus a 7:6 subminor third. The 10:7 interval (augmented fourth) is equal to a 5:4 major third plus an 8:7 supermajor second, or a...
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tempered tuning, an augmented fifth is equal to eight semitones, a ratio of 22/3:1 (about 1.587:1), or 800 cents. The 25:16 just augmented fifth arises...
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In Western tonal music theory, an augmented octave is the sum of a perfect octave and an augmented unison or chromatic semitone. It is the interval between...
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Five-limit tuning, 5-limit tuning, or 5-prime-limit tuning (not to be confused with 5-odd-limit tuning), is any system for tuning a musical instrument...
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intervals from C♭ up to B, and from C up to B♯ are augmented sevenths, spanning twelve semitones. Being augmented, it is classified as a dissonant interval. However...
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