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  2. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    D modal tuning. In modal tunings, the strings are tuned to form a chord which is not definitively minor or major. These tunings may facilitate very easy chords and unique sounds when the open strings are used as drones. Often these tunings form a suspended chord on the open strings. A well known user of modal tunings is Sonic Youth. Asus2: E-A ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Been Away Too Long - Wikipedia

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    Shepherd, who stated the working title was "EBE" because of the modal guitar tuning - "which is actually EEBB" - stated the bridge intended to contribute "a vast apocalyptic melody", and he even wanted a different bass line before the other members made Shepherd give up on the idea.

  5. More than 3,000 fake Gibson guitars that could have been sold for a combined $18.7 million were seized by federal authorities after the typically made-in-America instruments arrived from Asia ...

  6. Modal jazz - Wikipedia

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    Modal jazz is jazz that makes use of musical modes, often modulating among them to accompany the chords instead of relying on one tonal center used across the piece.. Though exerting influence to the present, modal jazz was most popular in the 1950s and 1960s, as evidenced by the success of Miles Davis's 1958 composition "Milestones" and 1959 album Kind of Blue, and John Coltrane's quartet ...

  7. Downtuning - Wikipedia

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    Guitar tunings, specifically Guitar tunings#Lower tunings, Guitar tunings#Dropped tunings, and Guitar tunings#Double-dropped tunings Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Downtuning .

  8. Borrowed chord - Wikipedia

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    Sheila Romeo explains that "[i]n theory, any chord from any mode of the scale of the piece is a potential modal interchange or borrowed chord. Some are used more frequently than others, while some almost never occur." [1] In the minor mode, a common borrowed chord from the parallel major key is the Picardy third.

  9. Roadie Tuner - Wikipedia

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    Roadie tuners are automatic stringed instrument tuners created and developed by the music-tech startup, Band Industries, Inc. [1] [2] Roadie 3, the last iteration in the Roadie tuner family is compatible with stringed instruments that have a guitar machine head including electric, acoustic, classical and steel guitars, 6-7-12 string guitars, ukuleles, mandolins and banjos. [3]