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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. It...
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    needed] C♯-G♯-C♯-F-G♯-C♯ This tuning is the same as Open D but tuned a half-step down, also known as Open C♯ Major tuning. It is used by Alice In Chains...
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    major (D–G–B–D–G–B–D). When the open strings constitute a minor chord, the open tuning may sometimes be called a cross-note tuning. Major open tunings give...
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  • such as the G-major triad (G,B,D). For example, a popular open-G tuning is D–G–D–G–B–D (low to high). An open-G tuning allows a G-major chord to be strummed...
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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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    Open E tuning is a tuning for guitar: low to high, E-B-E-G♯-B-E. Compared to standard tuning, two strings are two semitones higher and one string is one...
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    are several 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...
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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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    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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  • Open B Tuning is an open tuning for guitar. The open string notes in this tuning are B-F♯-B-F♯-B-D♯. It uses the three notes that form the triad of a B...
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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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    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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    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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    standard tuning defines the string pitches as E, A, D, G, B, and E. Between the open-strings of the standard tuning are three perfect-fourths (E–A, A–D, D–G)...
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  • Key (music) Major and minor Allen (2019-11-01). "All About Drop D Tuning: Open D Tuning for Guitar". Classical Guitar Shed. Retrieved 2025-02-20. Steblin...
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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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  • 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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    the guitar tuning. Most guitars used in popular music have six strings with the "standard" tuning of the Spanish classical guitar, namely E–A–D–G–B–E' (from...
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  • damping effect. Tuning – The balance of these effects is achieved by loop tuning to produce the optimal control function. The tuning constants are shown...
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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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    include open D or Vestapol tuning: D–A–D–F♯–A–D; and open G or Spanish tuning: D–G–D–G–B–D. Open E and open A, formed by raising each of those tunings a whole...
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  • necessity became the mother of invention." "Oceans" was performed in open D tuning. The song is musically and texturally different from the rest of the...
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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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    arpeggiated. It also happens that the open D tuning was a perfect fourth lower than the six string tuning. The open D string tuning of this guitar was convenient...
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  • style of country blues, with vocals, an acoustic slide guitar in an open D tuning, and piano. The song is named after the Border Collie Seamus (belonging...
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    standard tuning for the instrument. Other tunings used, although by a minority of players, are "octave mandolin" tuning G2−D3−A3−E4, and "Open D" tuning A2−D3−A3−D4...
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    be the connection between other musical genres. He began playing in Open D tuning, which he discovered after listening to Joni Mitchell's Blue.[failed...
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    alternative tunings for the guitar, an overtones tuning selects its open-string notes from the overtone sequence of a fundamental note. An example is the open tuning...
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    Zeppelin). Stewart and Page became friendly, with Stewart teaching Page open-D tuning and Page teaching Stewart octaves and harmonics. Stewart had learned...
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