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Open E tuning also lends itself to easy barre-chording as heard in some of these songs. Chris Martin of Coldplay also uses this tuning live in the song "Hurts Like Heaven", but puts a capo on at the sixth fret. Open E tuning is often used for slide guitar, as it constitutes an open chord, which can be raised by moving the slide further up the neck.
Open E ♭ 5 tuning – E ♭-B ♭-e ♭-b ♭-e ♭ ' This is achieved by removing the fourth (G) string, tuning both Es and the B down a half step, and the A and D strings up a half-step. This creates a five-string power chord. Jacob Collier's "mirrored" tuning – D-A-e-a-d' As explained to the guitarist Paul Davids in a YouTube video [68].
C 6, E 6, E 7, E 6/9 and other such tunings are common among lap-steel players such as Hawaiian slack-key guitarists and country guitarists, and are also sometimes applied to the regular guitar by bottleneck (a slide repurposed from a glass bottle) players striving to emulate these styles.
The 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), then the major third G–B, and the fourth perfect-fourth B–E. In contrast, regular tunings have constant intervals between their successive open-strings:
The most commonly used tuning is A-E-A-E. Likewise banjo players in this tradition use many tunings to play melody in different keys. A common alternative banjo tuning for playing in D is A-D-A-D-E. Many Folk guitar players also used different tunings from standard, such as D-A-D-G-A-D, which is very popular for Irish music.
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.
Starting on a C, and using the standard system of tuning for Western music (12-tone equal temperament), the sequence is: C, G, D, A, E, B, F ♯ /G ♭, C ♯ /D ♭, G ♯ /A ♭, D ♯ /E ♭, A ♯ /B ♭, F, and C. This order places the most closely related key signatures adjacent to one another.
Instrument Strings & Courses Tuning(s) Alternative Names Origin Notes Picture Ahenk: 12 strings 6 courses. Standard/common: A 3 A 3 •B 3 B 3 •E 4 E 4 •A 4 A 4 •D 5 D 5 •G 5 G 5. Alternates: May also use various oud tunings