enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Open E tuning - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_E_tuning

    Open E tuning. Open E tuning is a tuning for guitar: low to high, E-B-E-G ♯-B-E. [1] Compared to standard tuning, two strings are two semitones higher and one string is one semitone higher. The intervals are identical to those found in open D tuning. In fact, it is common for players to keep their guitar tuned to open d and place a capo over ...

  3. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guitar_tunings

    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 tuningE ♭-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.

  4. Overtones tuning - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtones_tuning

    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 ...

  5. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_tunings

    A common C 6 tuning, for example, is C–E–G–A–C–E, which provides open major and minor thirds, open major and minor sixths, fifths, and octaves. By contrast, most open major or open minor tunings provide only octaves, fifths, and either a major third/sixth or a minor third/sixth—but not both.

  6. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning

    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.

  7. Regular tuning - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_tuning

    For example, the left-handed involute of the standard tuning E–A–D–G–B–E is the "lefty" tuning E–B–G–D–A–E. Similarly, the "left-handed" involute of the "lefty" tuning is the standard ("righty") tuning. [21] The reordering of open-strings in left-handed tunings has an important consequence.

  8. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringed_instrument_tunings

    F 1 G 1 A 1 B 1 C 2 D 2 open E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 over fretboard. Open A / Sittra (15 strings / 15 courses): A 1, B 1, C# 2, D 2, E 2, F# 2, G# 2 open A 2, B 2, C# 3, D 3, E 3, A 3, C# 4, E 4 over fretboard. Scholander lute: Sweden Other versions exist, mainly differing in the number of bass strings. Open A was developed in 1793-1794 for the ...

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Stringed_instrument_tunings

    For example, open G tuning has a different meaning depending on whether the instrument is a steel guitar or a resonator guitar. C6 tuning can mean any of four common tunings just for six-string lap steel guitar, as well as others for other instruments.