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  2. Open E tuning - Wikipedia

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    Open E tuning. Open E tuning is a tuning for guitar: low to high, E-B-E-G ♯-B-E. [1] Compared to standard tuning, two strings are two semitones higher and one string is one semitone higher. The intervals are identical to those found in open D tuning. In fact, it is common for players to keep their guitar tuned to open d and place a capo over ...

  3. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The following open-tunings use a minor third, and give a minor chord with open strings. To avoid the relatively cumbersome designation "open D minor", "open C minor", such tunings are sometimes called "cross-note tunings". The term also expresses the fact that, compared to Major chord open tunings, by fretting the lowered string at the first ...

  4. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Modal tunings are open tunings in which the open strings of the guitar do not produce a tertian (i.e., major or minor, or variants thereof) chord. The strings may be tuned to exclusively present a single interval (all fourths; all fifths; etc.) or they may be tuned to a non-tertian chord (unresolved suspensions such as E–A–B–E–A–E ...

  5. Regular tuning - Wikipedia

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    Among alternative guitar-tunings, regular tunings have equal musical intervals between the paired notes of their successive open strings. Guitar tunings assign pitches to the open strings of guitars. Tunings can be described by the particular pitches that are denoted by notes in Western music.

  6. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    There really is no "standard" tuning for baritone guitar; choice of tuning depends on instrument, stringing, and player's preferences. Guitar, bass: 4 strings 4 courses. Standard/common: E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2. Alternates: D 1 A 1 D 2 G 2; D 1 G 1 C 2 F 2; Bass, electric bass, 4-string bass, Fender bass USA First U.S. patent filed by Leo Fender on ...

  7. E minor - Wikipedia

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    Much of the classical guitar repertoire is in E minor, as this is a very natural key for the instrument. In standard tuning (E A D G B E), four of the instrument's six open (unfretted) strings are part of the tonic chord. The key of E minor is also popular in heavy metal music, as its tonic is the lowest note on a standard-tuned guitar.

  8. Category:Open tunings - Wikipedia

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    Slack-key guitar tunings (1 P) ... Open E tuning; Open G tuning; Overtones tuning This page was last edited on 13 June 2012, at 19:27 (UTC). ...

  9. Bentonia School - Wikipedia

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    The Bentonia school of guitar playing has strong associations with a guitar-tuning based on an open E minor chord. From the lowest (6th) string to the highest (1st), the tuning uses E-B-E-G-B-E. (A common variant pitches the same intervals a whole step lower, in D minor: D-A-D-F-A-D.)