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  2. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Creed, Architects, all use this tuning tuned a half-step down on their songs "Bread of Shame", "Early Grave" respectively. Danish industrial metal band Raunchy used this tuning tuned one and a half-step down (F#-E-A-D-f#-B) on the song "Dim the Lights and Run" from the album A Discord Electric.

  3. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    D Tuning, also called One Step Lower, Whole Step Down, Full Step or D Standard, is another alternative. Each string is lowered by a whole tone (two semitones) resulting in D-G-C-F-A-D . It is used mostly by heavy metal bands to achieve a heavier, deeper sound, and by blues guitarists, who use it to accommodate string bending and by 12-string ...

  4. Semitone - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the half step was avoided in clausulae because it lacked clarity as an interval." [13] Dramatic chromatic scale in the opening measures of Luca Marenzio's Solo e pensoso, ca. 1580. However, beginning in the 13th century cadences begin to require motion in one voice by half step and the other a whole step in contrary motion. [13]

  5. Nirvana (band) - Wikipedia

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    Until early 1992, the band had performed live in concert pitch. They began tuning down either a half step or full step as well as concert pitch. Sometimes all three tunings would be in the same show. By the summer of that year, the band had settled on the half step down tuning . [138]

  6. Bound for the Floor - Wikipedia

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    Like many of Local H's songs, the guitar tuning is a half step down from standard. The song is noteworthy for the usage of the word "copacetic" in the chorus. A music video was produced for "Bound for the Floor," which features a performance by the band strung with shots of a school building.

  7. Interval (music) - Wikipedia

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    A step, or conjunct motion, [21] is a linear interval between two consecutive notes of a scale. Any larger interval is called a skip (also called a leap ), or disjunct motion . [ 21 ] In the diatonic scale , [ b ] a step is either a minor second (sometimes also called half step ) or major second (sometimes also called whole step ), with all ...

  8. Trivium (band) - Wikipedia

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    In the bonus content for the November 2011 issue of Guitar World, Matt Heafy talked about why the band decided to record this album in Drop D♭ as opposed to Drop D. "For the whole record of 'In Waves' we're in Drop D♭, so it's kind of like (Ascendency), just a half step lower, and everything that we do from all of the albums is half a step ...

  9. Steps and skips - Wikipedia

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    For example, C to D (major second) is a step, whereas C to E (major third) is a skip. More generally, a step is a smaller or narrower interval in a musical line, and a skip is a wider or larger interval with the categorization of intervals into steps and skips is determined by the tuning system and the pitch space used.