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The Pink Floyd song "Hey You" from the album The Wall and the Kansas song "Dust in the Wind" [2] from their Point of Know Return album use this form of guitar tuning. In "Hey You", David Gilmour replaced the low E string with a second high E (not a 12-string set, low E's octave string) such that it was two octaves up.
Typically, a guitar's body is a sound box, of which the top side serves as a sound board that enhances the vibration sounds of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings [2] are tuned (low to high) E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4. Guitar strings may be plucked individually with a pick (plectrum) or fingertip, or strummed to play chords.
Early Greek treatises describe three interrelated concepts that are related to the later, medieval idea of "mode": (1) scales (or "systems"), (2) tonos – pl. tonoi – (the more usual term used in medieval theory for what later came to be called "mode"), and (3) harmonia (harmony) – pl. harmoniai – this third term subsuming the ...
Jazz guitarist Carl Kress used a variation of all-fifths tuning—with the bottom four strings in fifths, and the top two strings in thirds, resulting in B ♭ 1 –F 2 –C 3 –G 3 –B 3 –D 4. This facilitated tenor banjo chord shapes on the bottom four strings and plectrum banjo chord shapes on the top four strings.
4 *, B 4, C 5... The bold notes spell out an acoustic scale on C 4. However, in the harmonic series, the notes marked with asterisks are out of tune: F 4 * (Play ⓘ) is almost exactly halfway between F ♮ 4 and F ♯ 4, A ♭ 4 * (Play ⓘ) is about 9 cents closer to A ♭ 4 than A ♮ 4, and B ♭ 4 * is too flat to be generally accepted as ...
An example is the open tuning constituted by the first six overtones of the fundamental note C, namely C 2-C 3-G 3-C 4-E 4-G 4. Overtone tunings that are open tunings have been used in songs by folk musician Joni Mitchell and by rock guitarist Mick Ralphs of Bad Company ; these open overtones-tunings select their open notes from the first six ...
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).
Jimmy Page, of Led Zeppelin and The Yardbirds, is perhaps one of the most famous bowed guitar players. His bowed guitar can be heard on the songs "Dazed and Confused" [2] and "How Many More Times" [3] from the album Led Zeppelin, "In the Light" from the album Physical Graffiti, and "In the Evening" from the album In Through the Out Door.