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2. Slide guitar - Wikipedia

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   When the guitar was electrified in the 1930s, it allowed solos on the instrument to be more audible, and thus more prominently featured. In the 1940s, players like Robert Nighthawk and Earl Hooker popularized electric slide guitar; but, unlike their predecessors, they used standard tuning. [12]

3. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   Some alternative tunings are difficult or even impossible to achieve with conventional guitars due to the sets of guitar strings, which have gauges optimized for standard tuning. With conventional sets of guitar strings, some higher tunings increase the string-tension until playing the guitar requires significantly more finger-strength and ...

4. Open D tuning - Wikipedia

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   Open D tuning. Open D tuning is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar.The open string notes in this tuning are (from lowest to highest): D A D F ♯ A D.It uses the three notes that form the triad of a D major chord: D (the root note), F ♯ (the major third) and A (the perfect fifth).

5. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   A FuniChar D-616 guitar with a Drop D tuning. It has an unusual additional fretboard that extends onto the headstock. Most guitarists obtain a Drop D tuning by detuning the low E string a tone down. This article contains a list of guitar tunings that supplements the article guitar tunings. In particular, this list contains more examples of open ...

6. Open E tuning - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Open G tuning - Wikipedia

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   Open G tuning allows for open strings and single-fret bar chords to be played in key which make techniques such as slide and steel guitar viable. Open G tuning is common in blues and folk music [2] (along with other open tunings).

8. Guitar - Wikipedia

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   There are also a variety of commonly used alternative tunings, for example, the classes of open, regular, and dropped tunings. Ry Cooder plays slide-guitar with open tunings. Open tuning refers to a guitar tuned so that strumming the open strings produces a chord, typically a major chord. The base chord consists of at least 3 notes and may ...

9. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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   7 string electric guitar US Van Eps aka "Jazz tuning" "Choro" is popular in Brazil 6-string alternates may be adapted for the 7-string Guitar, 8 string (low/high) 8 strings 8 courses. B 1 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 A 4: 8 string classical guitar Spain aka "Galbraith tuning" Guitar, 8 string (added basses) 8 strings 8 courses [B 1 D 2] E 2 A 2 D 3 ...