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    Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitches to the open strings of guitars, including classical guitars, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars. Tunings...
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    list of guitar tunings that supplements the article guitar tunings. In particular, this list contains more examples of open and regular tunings, which...
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    longer and stronger than a regular guitar to achieve the desired pitch with heavy strings at average tensions. List of guitar tunings Guitar tunings...
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    Each bass guitar tuning assigns pitches to the strings of an electric bass. Because pitches are associated with notes, bass-guitar tunings assign open...
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    schemes that organize the tunings by key and type. The chart below follows their categories and naming conventions. The tunings were often passed down in...
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    commonly used alternative tunings, for example, the classes of open, regular, and dropped tunings. Open tuning refers to a guitar tuned so that strumming the...
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    every open tuning) by fretting six strings with one finger. Open tunings are used especially for steel guitar and slide guitar. Open tunings allow one-finger...
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    standard tuning has been established for baritone guitars, popular tunings for the instrument are: a perfect fourth lower than a standard guitar (B1–E2–A2–D3–F♯3–B3)...
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  • Slack-key guitar, and Guitar tunings, specifically Guitar tunings#Lower tunings, Guitar tunings#Dropped tunings, and Guitar tunings#Double-dropped tunings This...
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    tune "drop" tuning even lower. By lowering the 6th string one whole step in lowered tunings they created a heavier and grittier sound. Lower tunings such...
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    for having "redefined what rock guitar could do" using a wide variety of unorthodox guitar tunings while preparing guitars with objects like drum sticks...
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    Among guitar tunings, all-fifths tuning refers to the set of tunings in which each interval between consecutive open strings is a perfect fifth. All-fifths...
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  • Waldzither Tuning Bass guitar tunings Guitar tunings Plucked string instrument list Scale (string instruments) Scordatura Violin tunings Brody, David;...
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  • Among alternative tunings for the guitar, an open G tuning is an open tuning that features the G-major chord; its open notes are selected from the notes...
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    common tuning for six string lap steels in the 1920s and 1930s.: 120  Tunings with a sixth interval are popular in Western swing and jazz, while tunings containing...
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    lineup of Troy Sanders (bass/vocals), Brent Hinds (lead guitar/vocals), Bill Kelliher (rhythm guitar/backing vocals) and Brann Dailor (drums/vocals) has remained...
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    Classical guitar music Instrumental guitar Tablature notation ("Tab") See Guitar tunings and List of guitar tunings. Standard tuning Alternate tunings Drop...
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    beginning in 1985, and thousands of Guitar Craft students continue to use the tuning. Like other alternative tunings for guitar, NST provides challenges and...
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    non-standard tunings (such as major-thirds tuning), or both. Various non-standard guitars were made in the 19th century, including eight-string guitars played...
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    frets as desired, with the guitar played in the conventional position. Many different tunings are used. Some square neck tunings are not recommended for...
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    alternative guitar-tunings, regular tunings have equal musical intervals between the paired notes of their successive open strings. Guitar tunings assign pitches...
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    of alternate guitar tunings in his songs. Rzeznik has said that he would "basically sit there at night and just start tuning my guitar strings up and...
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    example, Lead Belly often used a low-C tuning, but in some recordings, his tunings can be recognized as low-B and A tunings, partially due to the unusually long...
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    notation. The English guitar may have influenced the development and tuning of the Russian guitar, which has seven strings tuned to open G in thirds (G⸜–B...
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  • high-strung tuning refers to the practice of replacing the wound E, A, D and G strings on a six-string guitar with lighter gauge strings to allow tuning an octave...
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    Russian tunings is in the ability to play chords with a tighter, more piano-like voicing on the latter. For example, an E-minor chord on a Spanish guitar (as...
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    Talks Guitars". Roadrunner News. Roadrunner Records. Retrieved 24 November 2011. Guitar Setup for Drop C Tuning article explains drop tunings for rock...
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    apart from their contemporaries by thrift-store chic and the unusual guitar tunings Ricky Wilson used. The band's first single, "Rock Lobster", recorded...
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    Choro players usually tune the seventh string up a half-step, to C: C2-E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4. The common Russian guitar tunings given above are still in...
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    combination of both Cale's viola and Reed's guitar tunings would be an early hallmark of their work. Reed used ostrich tunings on the 1967 album The Velvet Underground...
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