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  2. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Six full steps (one octave) down from standard tuning. The Low E has the same fundamental frequency as a bass guitar, essentially the same standard tuning as a bass guitar but with a high B and E added to mimic a regular guitar. This tuning is used on the Fender Bass VI and similar instruments.

  3. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The diagonal movement of chords is especially simple for the regular tunings that are repetitive, in which case chords can be moved vertically: Chords can be moved three strings up (or down) in major-thirds tuning, and chords can be moved two strings up (or down) in augmented-fourths tuning. Regular tunings thus appeal to new guitarists and ...

  4. Regular tuning - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    Man turning tuning pegs to tune guitar Tuning of Sébastien Érard harp using Korg OT-120 Wide 8 Octave Orchestral Digital Tuner. Tuning is the process of adjusting the pitch of one or many tones from musical instruments to establish typical intervals between these tones. Tuning is usually based on a fixed reference, such as A = 440 Hz.

  6. Quarter tone - Wikipedia

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    A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (orally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which itself is half a whole tone. Quarter tones divide the octave by 50 cents each, and have 24 different pitches. Trumpet with 3 normal valves and a quartering on the extension valve (right)

  7. Quartal and quintal harmony - Wikipedia

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    The terms quartal and quintal imply a contrast, either compositional or perceptual, with traditional harmonic constructions based on thirds: listeners familiar with music of the common practice period are guided by tonalities constructed with familiar elements: the chords that make up major and minor scales, all in turn built from major and minor thirds.

  8. DECONSTRUCTION: Portrait of a Quiet Masterpiece - AOL

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    Whereas you have a lot of bass players playing the root of the guitar chord, and that’s your song, [here] I’m playing one line, he’s playing a contradictory line, and it creates this cacophony.

  9. So What chord - Wikipedia

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    It is identical to the standard tuning of a guitar's five lowest strings. It is essentially a minor eleventh chord , arranged as it would be played on a guitar (1, 4, ♭ 7, ♭ 3, 5). It may also be thought of as a five-note quartal chord (built from fourths) with the top note lowered by a semitone .