open C tunings. The English guitar uses a repetitive open-C tuning C-E-G-C-E-G, which is approximately a major-thirds tuning, specifically C-E-G♯-C-E-G♯=C-E-A♭-C-E-A♭...
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needed] C-E-G-C-E-G The English guitar used a repetitive open-C tuning that approximated a major-thirds tuning. C-C-G-C-E-G This open-C tuning gives the...
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(high E4). Standard tuning is used by most guitarists, and frequently used tunings can be understood as variations on standard tuning. To aid in memorising...
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Open D tuning is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar. The open string notes in this tuning are (from lowest to highest): D A D F♯ A D....
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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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Among alternative tunings for guitar, a major-thirds tuning is a regular tuning in which each interval between successive open strings is a major third...
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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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overtones tuning that uses six higher partials, from fourth to ninth, of the overtone sequence; his tuning is not an open tuning. When an open-note C-string...
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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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tunings, all-fifths tuning refers to the set of tunings in which each interval between consecutive open strings is a perfect fifth. All-fifths tuning...
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fade out. A tuning fork's pitch depends on the length and mass of the two prongs. They are traditional sources of standard pitch for tuning musical instruments...
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Drop D tuning is an alternative form of guitar tuning in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down from the usual E of standard tuning by one whole...
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original right-handed tuning. The left-handed version of the trivial tuning C–C–C–C–C–C is also C–C–C–C–C–C. Among non-trivial tunings, only the class of...
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Among alternative tunings for the guitar, all-fourths tuning is a regular tuning. In contrast, the standard tuning has one irregularity—a major third between...
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Guitar chord (section Open tunings)
guitar chords depends on the guitar tuning. Most guitars used in popular music have six strings with the "standard" tuning of the Spanish classical guitar...
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DADGAD (redirect from Open D-sus tuning)
D A D G A D, or Celtic tuning, is an alternative guitar tuning most associated with Celtic music, though it has also found use in rock, folk, metal and...
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Enough", for which he tuned his guitar in open-C tuning. He said it did not sound right in standard tuning: "It needs the open C to have that ring." The...
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steel guitar, popular C6 tunings are: High C6 tuning A-C-E-G-A-C-E-G. Low C6 tuning either: G-A-C-E-G-A-C-E. F-A-C-E-G-A-C-E. On a ten-string neck, typical...
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tuning assigns pitches to the strings of an electric bass. Because pitches are associated with notes, bass-guitar tunings assign open notes to open strings...
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close the circle. More complex tuning systems based on just intonation, such as 5-limit tuning, use at most eight justly tuned fifths and at least three non-just...
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carried the title Caledonia. MacLean plays the song in the key of E using Open C tuning with a capo on the 4th fret. "Caledonia" has been covered by a great...
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who tuned his guitar in the open-C tuning C-C-G-C-E-C. Ralphs stated that "It never really sounds right in standard tuning. It needs the open C to have...
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alternative tunings for guitar, each augmented-fourths tuning is a regular tuning in which the musical intervals between successive open-string notes...
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Guitar (category C instruments)
major-thirds tunings, which do not require more hand-stretching than standard tuning. In major-thirds tuning, the interval between open strings is always...
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Cross tuning or cross-tuning (aka scordatura) is an alternative tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument. The term refers to the practice...
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Afterwards, the strings are fine tuned using the tuning pegs (sometimes, rosin is used on the part of the tuning peg that touches the qin body to stop...
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Russian guitar (category Repetitive guitar-tunings)
step and a half to an open E. Also, variations in the open G tuning were fairly common, e.g., Bulat Okudzhava would use the tuning of D2 G2 C3 D3 G3 B3...
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Slack-key guitar (redirect from Slack tuning)
standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, so that strumming across the open strings will then sound a harmonious chord, typically an open major. This...
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Townsend mainly uses Open C tuning for both six and seven string guitar. He now also uses Open B tuning and Open B flat tuning on his six string guitars...
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