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  2. Bass guitar tuning - Wikipedia

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    Tuning machines (with spiral metal worm gears) are mounted on the back of the headstock on the bass guitar neck. The standard design for the electric bass guitar has four strings, tuned E, A, D and G, in fourths such that the open highest string, G, is an eleventh (an octave and a fourth) below middle C, making the tuning of all four strings the same as that of the double bass (E 1 –A 1 –D ...

  3. Bass note - Wikipedia

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    One of the other pitches of the chord is in the bass. This makes it an inverted chord; The bass note is not one of the notes in the chord. Such a bass note is an additional note, coloring the chord above it. Such a chord is also called a slash chord. Examples with bass note in red: C major chord in root position close position (C), open ...

  4. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  5. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The English guitar used a repetitive open-C tuning that approximated a major-thirds tuning. [2] C-C-G-C-E-G [3] This open-C tuning gives the initial harmonic series when a C-string is struck. [4] The C-C-G-C-E-G tuning uses the harmonic sequence (overtones) of the note C.

  6. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    A common C 6 tuning, for example, is C–E–G–A–C–E, which provides open major and minor thirds, open major and minor sixths, fifths, and octaves. By contrast, most open major or open minor tunings provide only octaves, fifths, and either a major third/sixth or a minor third/sixth—but not both.

  7. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings

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    Most instruments have a standard tuning and stringing, and all other tunings that may be accommodated without changing the strings are scordaturas. Likewise, a particular stringing may have a standard tuning, and all other tunings of this stringing are scordaturas. If there is no standard tuning, then the term scordatura is not applicable.

  8. Slash chord - Wikipedia

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    D/F ♯ (alternately notated D major/F ♯ bass) notated in regular notation (on top) and tabulature (below) for a six-string guitar. Play ⓘ.. In music, especially modern popular music, a slash chord or slashed chord, also compound chord, is a chord whose bass note or inversion is indicated by the addition of a slash and the letter of the bass note after the root note letter.

  9. C tuning (guitar) - Wikipedia

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    C tuning. C tuning is a type of guitar tuning. The strings of the guitar are tuned two whole steps lower than standard tuning. The resulting notes can be described most commonly as C-F-A♯-D♯-G-C or C-F-B♭-E♭-G-C. This is not to be confused with Ctuning, which is one and one half steps lower than standard tuning.