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Corrected errors noted by ammo fuzztone at Yahoo jazz-guitar group: 15:02, 30 April 2013: 1,275 × 1,650, 15 pages (342 KB) Kiefer.Wolfowitz: A major upgrade: This version discusses the tertian harmonization of the major scale on C, giving fingerings drawn with GNU Lilypond. Errors have been corrected. Copy editing has improved the exposition.
Standard tuning is the tuning most frequently used on a six-string guitar and musicians assume this tuning by default if a specific alternate (or scordatura) is not mentioned. In scientific pitch notation, [4] the guitar's standard tuning consists of the following notes: E 2 –A 2 –D 3 –G 3 –B 3 –E 4.
Guitar strum Play ⓘ: base pattern on open G tuning. Strumming is used to create a chord. Many patterns are created through subtracting beats from this base. Guitar strum Play ⓘ: pattern created by subtracting the second and fifth (of eight) eighth notes from the base, above. Ska stroke [1] Play ⓘ: features dampened staccato upbeat ...
Lower tunings are popular among rock and heavy metal bands. The reason for tuning down below standard pitch is usually either to accommodate a singer's vocal range or to get a deeper/heavier sound. [59] E ♭ tuning – E ♭-A ♭-D ♭-G♭-B ♭-E ♭ Half a step down from standard tuning.
The shifting of chords is especially simple for the regular tunings that repeat their open strings, in which case chords can be moved vertically: Chords can be moved three strings up (or down) in major-thirds tuning, [3] and chords can be moved two strings up (or down) in augmented-fourths tuning. Regular tunings thus appeal to new guitarists ...
Drop D tuning is the most basic type of "drop 1" tuning, where the 6th string is tuned down a whole step (a tone). A large number of other "drop 1" tunings can be obtained simply by tuning a guitar to drop D tuning and then tuning all strings down some fixed amount. Examples are Drop D ♭, Drop C, Drop B, Drop B ♭, and Drop A tunings. All of ...
The Spanish guitar's tuning mixes four perfect fourths (five semitones) and one major-third, the latter occurring between the G and B strings: E–A–D–G–B–E. This tuning, which is used for acoustic and electric guitars, is called "standard" in English, a convention that is followed in
Sixty guitar chords for all-fourths tuning: An introductory tutorial about chords on a guitar tuned to all fourths (PDF) Zhille's guitar blog: Perfect fourths (P4) tuning–Basics and examples; Lessons and articles on fourths tuning using Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-B-E Archived 19 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine