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Standard tuning but with the 6th string lowered one and a half steps. Used by Sevendust tuned one and a half-step down (which goes as: A#-F#-B-E-G#-C#) on some songs from Home through Alpha. Drop C in standard variation – C-A-D-G-B-E Standard tuning but with the 6th string lowered two whole steps.
In standard tuning, there is an interval of a major third between the second and third strings, and all the other intervals are fourths. The irregularity has a price. Chords cannot be shifted around the fretboard in the standard tuning E–A–D–G–B–E, which requires four chord-shapes for the major chords.
[50] [h] The standard-tuning implementation of a C7 chord is a second-inversion C7 drop 2 chord, in which the second highest note in a second inversion of the C7 chord is lowered by an octave. [ 50 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Drop-two chords are used for sevenths chords besides the major–minor seventh with dominant function, [ 54 ] which are discussed in ...
"The Rain Song" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It uses an alternative guitar tuning - DGCGCD, a variation of DADGAD. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was released in March 1973 as the second track on their fifth album, Houses of the Holy .
Neighboring the standard tuning is the all-thirds tuning that has the open strings E2–G ♯ 2–B ♯ 2–E3–G ♯ 3–B ♯ 3 (or F ♭ 2–A ♭ 2–C3–F ♭ 3–A ♭ 3–C4). [4] With six strings, major-thirds tuning has a smaller range than standard tuning; with seven strings, the major-thirds tuning covers the range of standard ...
This is the most common tuning system used in Western music, and is the standard system used as a basis for tuning a piano. Since this scale divides an octave into twelve equal-ratio steps and an octave has a frequency ratio of two, the frequency ratio between adjacent notes is then the twelfth root of two, 2 1/12 ≋ 1.05946309... .
New standard tuning (NST) is an alternative tuning for the guitar that approximates all-fifths tuning.The guitar's strings are assigned the notes C2-G2-D3-A3-E4-G4 (from lowest to highest); the five lowest open strings are each tuned to an interval of a perfect fifth {(C,G),(G,D),(D,A),(A,E)}; the two highest strings are a minor third apart (E,G).
Open D tuning. Open D tuning is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar.The open string notes in this tuning are (from lowest to highest): D A D F ♯ A D.It uses the three notes that form the triad of a D major chord: D (the root note), F ♯ (the major third) and A (the perfect fifth).