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  2. Open G tuning - Wikipedia

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    For example, a popular open-G tuning is D–G–D–G–B–D (low to high). An open-G tuning allows a G-major chord to be strummed on all six strings with neither fretting of the left hand nor a capo. Like other open tunings, it allows the eleven major chords besides G major each to be strummed by barring at most one finger on exactly one fret ...

  3. Overtones tuning - Wikipedia

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    In open-G tuning (G,G,D,G,B,D), the 3 (B) of the open-G major-triad is on string 2. If we barre or use a slide to play the IV chord (C) at fret 5, the 3 of that chord (E) is still on string 2 ... as it will be when we slide up to the V chord, or the bVII chord, or the octave.

  4. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Some slide/bottleneck guitarists omit the bottom E string when playing in open G to have the root note as the tonic. This tuning is used by Keith Richards. 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.

  5. Banjo roll - Wikipedia

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    Forward roll on G major chord in both standard notation and banjo tablature, accompaniment pattern characteristic of Scruggs style [1] Play ⓘ.. In bluegrass music, a banjo roll or roll is a pattern played by the banjo that uses a repeating eighth-note arpeggio – a broken chord – that by subdividing the beat 'keeps time'.

  6. Scruggs style - Wikipedia

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    Banjo, "standard roll patterns", on G major chord: Play forward ⓘ (above), Play backward ⓘ, Play mixed ⓘ, and Play forward-reverse ⓘ. [1] [3]Beginning with his first recordings with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, and later with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, Earl Scruggs introduced a vocabulary of "licks", short musical phrases that are reused in many ...

  7. Allen Shelton - Wikipedia

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    With the first four stings on his banjo tuned to an open D tuning ( D, F#, A, D, 4-1), he would use the "pedal attachment" to raise the 2nd and 3rd strings up to an open G chord (D, G, B, D 4-1), accomplishing the moving pitch sound of a pedal steel.

  8. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    The pitches of open strings on a violin. Play ⓘ. In music, the term open string refers to the fundamental note of the unstopped, full string.. The strings of a guitar are normally tuned to fourths (excepting the G and B strings in standard tuning, which are tuned to a third), as are the strings of the bass guitar and double bass.

  9. Open chord - Wikipedia

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    G major chord for guitar (open). Violoncello chord on C Play ⓘ. Bottom two strings are open. In music for stringed instruments, especially guitar, an open chord (open-position chord) is a chord that includes one or more strings that are not fingered. An open string vibrates freely, whereas a fingered string will be partially dampened unless ...