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2. New standard tuning - Wikipedia

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   Guitar tunings. 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 ...

3. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   Standard tuning (listen) Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitches to the open strings of guitars, including classical guitars, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars. Tunings are described by the particular pitches that are made by notes in Western music. By convention, the notes are ordered and arranged from the lowest-pitched string (i.e ...

4. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   Major. Major open-tunings give a major chord with the open strings. "Slide" Open A: E-A-E-A-C ♯ -E (identical to "Open G" tuning but with every string raised one step or two frets) Used by Jimmy Page on "In My Time of Dying" and Jack White on "Seven Nation Army" and "Catch Hell Blues"".

5. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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   The steel-string acoustic guitar typically has a scale slightly shorter than the classical instrument, the most common scales ranging between short scale (24 inches (610 mm)) and long scale (25.5 inches (650 mm)). Small travel guitars and guitars specifically designed for children can have even shorter scales.

6. Nashville tuning (high strung) - Wikipedia

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   Nashville or high-strung tuning refers to the practice of replacing the wound E, A, D and G strings on a six-string guitar with lighter gauge strings to allow tuning an octave higher than standard. [1] This is usually achieved by using one string from each of the six courses of a twelve-string set, using the higher string for those courses ...

7. Regular tuning - Wikipedia

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   Regular tunings. For regular guitar-tunings, the distance between consecutive open-strings is a constant musical-interval, measured by semitones on the chromatic circle. The chromatic circle lists the twelve notes of the octave. Makes it difficult to play music written for standard tuning.