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  2. 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). [1] [3] Open G tuning particularly common in guitar music of Hawaiian origin including guitar styles such as slack ...

  3. Guitar chord - Wikipedia

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    The suspended fourth chord is often played inadvertently, or as an adornment, by barring an additional string from a power chord shape (e.g., E5 chord, playing the second fret of the G string with the same finger barring strings A and D); making it an easy and common extension in the context of power chords.

  4. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    List of musical chords Name Chord on C Sound # of p.c.-Forte # p.c. #s Quality Augmented chord: Play ...

  5. Chord progression - Wikipedia

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    By thinking of this blues progression in Roman numerals, a backup band or rhythm section could be instructed by a bandleader to play the chord progression in any key. For example, if the bandleader asked the band to play this chord progression in the key of B ♭ major, the chords would be B ♭-B ♭-B ♭-B ♭, E ♭-E ♭-B ♭-B ♭, F-E ...

  6. Common chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    Common chords are frequently used in modulations, in a type of modulation known as common chord modulation or diatonic pivot chord modulation. It moves from the original key to the destination key (usually a closely related key) by way of a chord both keys share. For example, G major and D major have 4 chords in common: G, Bm, D, Em.

  7. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    In standard tuning, there is an interval of a major third between the second and third strings, and all the other intervals are fourths. The irregularity has a price. Chords cannot be shifted around the fretboard in the standard tuning E–A–D–G–B–E, which requires four chord-shapes for the major chords.

  8. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    B ♭ 1 C 2 D 2 E ♭ 2 F 2 G 2 C 3 F 3 B ♭ 3 D 4 G 4: Archguitar, altgitarren, Bolin guitar Sweden Guitar, alto 13 strings 13 courses. A 1 B ♭ 1 C 2 D 2 E 2 F 2 G 2 A 2 D 3 F 3 A 3 D 4 F 4: Archguitar, altgitarren, Bolin guitar Sweden This instrument is very rare. Guitar, alto (Niibori) 6 strings 6 courses. Standard/common: B 2 E 3 A 3 D 4 ...

  9. Chord diagram (music) - Wikipedia

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    Chord diagrams for some common chords in major-thirds tuning. In music, a chord diagram (also called a fretboard diagram or fingering diagram) is a diagram indicating the fingering of a chord on fretted string instruments, showing a schematic view of the fretboard with markings for the frets that should be pressed when playing the chord. [1]