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  2. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Six full steps (one octave) down from standard tuning. The Low E has the same fundamental frequency as a bass guitar, essentially the same standard tuning as a bass guitar but with a high B and E added to mimic a regular guitar. This tuning is used on the Fender Bass VI and similar instruments.

  3. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The guitar is a transposing instrument; that is, music for guitars is notated one octave higher than the true pitch.This is to reduce the need for ledger lines in music written for the instrument, and thus simplify the reading of notes when playing the guitar.

  4. Strum - Wikipedia

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    Guitar strum Play ⓘ: base pattern on open G tuning. Strumming is used to create a chord. Many patterns are created through subtracting beats from this base. Guitar strum Play ⓘ: pattern created by subtracting the second and fifth (of eight) eighth notes from the base, above. Ska stroke [1] Play ⓘ: features dampened staccato upbeat ...

  5. Chord diagram (music) - Wikipedia

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    Chord diagrams for some common chords in major-thirds tuning. In music, a chord diagram (also called a fretboard diagram or fingering diagram) is a diagram indicating the fingering of a chord on fretted string instruments, showing a schematic view of the fretboard with markings for the frets that should be pressed when playing the chord. [1]

  6. Regular tuning - Wikipedia

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    The shifting of chords is especially simple for the regular tunings that repeat their open strings, in which case chords can be moved vertically: Chords can be moved three strings up (or down) in major-thirds tuning, [3] and chords can be moved two strings up (or down) in augmented-fourths tuning. Regular tunings thus appeal to new guitarists ...

  7. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    7 string electric guitar US Van Eps aka "Jazz tuning" "Choro" is popular in Brazil 6-string alternates may be adapted for the 7-string Guitar, 8 string (low/high) 8 strings 8 courses. B 1 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 A 4: 8 string classical guitar Spain aka "Galbraith tuning" Guitar, 8 string (added basses) 8 strings 8 courses [B 1 D 2] E 2 A 2 D 3 ...

  8. Slack-key guitar - Wikipedia

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    Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, which has been used for centuries, so that strumming across the open strings will then sound a ...

  9. Drop C tuning - Wikipedia

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    Drop C tuning (CGCFAD) Drop C tuning (CGCFAD) (listen) Drop C tuning is an alternative guitar tuning where at least one string has been lowered to a C, but most commonly refers to CGCFAD, which can be described as D tuning with a 6th string dropped to C, or drop D tuning transposed down a whole step.