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To tune a guitar from standard tuning to open D tuning, lower the 1st (high-E) string down a full step to D, 2nd (B) string down a full step to A, 3rd (G) string down a half step to F ♯, and 6th (low-E) string down a full step to D. In this tuning, when the guitar is strummed without fretting any of the strings, a D major chord is sounded.
Used also by Silverchair in the songs "One Way Mule" and "The Lever" from their album Diorama and Stephen Brodsky used this tuning a half step down (A#G#C#F#A#D#) in Cave In and Mutoid Man; Drop B-E – B-E-D-G-b-e Standard tuning with the 6th and 5th string lowered two and a half steps down. Used by Tool in the songs "Parabol" and "Parabola".
D Tuning, also called One Step Lower, Whole Step Down, Full Step or D Standard, is another alternative. Each string is lowered by a whole tone (two semitones) resulting in D-G-C-F-A-D . It is used mostly by heavy metal bands to achieve a heavier, deeper sound, and by blues guitarists, who use it to accommodate string bending and by 12-string ...
"Tonight, Tonight" is written in the key of G, performed on instruments tuned down a half-step so the actual pitch is G ♭ /F #. In the original recording sessions, "Tonight, Tonight" was initially written in the key of C instead of G. [8] However, since Corgan was unable to sing the song in C, he wrote a version during the Mellon Collie recording sessions to suit his range. [8]
For example, C to D (major second) is a step, whereas C to E (major third) is a skip. More generally, a step is a smaller or narrower interval in a musical line, and a skip is a wider or larger interval with the categorization of intervals into steps and skips is determined by the tuning system and the pitch space used.
In February 2006, the band posted "Half Step Down" on their MySpace profile. [17] In April, the band mentioned they were writing some new songs for a new release later in the year. [ 18 ] In December, Rock Vegas said the band had finished recording four songs a split release with They Sleep the Dream. [ 19 ]
The song also makes use of a 12-string guitar, tuned a half step down, and a Mellotron, using the flute patch. It is in the 6/8 time signature. [3] Chad Smith said in The Chad & Flea Show that his drumming in the song was inspired by Mitch Mitchell's work in the Jimi Hendrix Experience song "Manic Depression". [5]
"Lenny" is the tenth and final track on the first Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble album Texas Flood. [1] The song is in 4/4 time and notated in the key of E flat major (but instruments are tuned down a half-step, so the chordal structure is in E).