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  2. Open D tuning - Wikipedia

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    Open D tuning. Open D tuning is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar.The open string notes in this tuning are (from lowest to highest): D A D F ♯ A D.It uses the three notes that form the triad of a D major chord: D (the root note), F ♯ (the major third) and A (the perfect fifth).

  3. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The open D tuning (D–A–D–F ♯ –A–D), also called "Vestapol" tuning, [29] is a common open tuning used by European and American/Western guitarists working with alternative tunings. The Allman Brothers Band instrumental " Little Martha " used an open D tuning raised one half step, giving an open E♭ tuning with the same intervallic ...

  4. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Open-D tuning has been called Vestapol tuning. [7] Richie Havens used Open D tuning to be able to play chords using only his thumb and one or two fingers. Wilco have several songs in Open D. Kevin Cronin used Open D in "Time for Me to Fly", the 1978 REO Speedwagon hit song, with four top-string variations for G and A. Alternatively: D-A-D'-A'-D-D

  5. Category:Open tunings - Wikipedia

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    Open B tuning; Open C tuning; Open D tuning; Open E tuning; Open G tuning; Overtones tuning This page was last edited on 13 June 2012, at 19:27 (UTC). Text is ...

  6. Vestapol - Wikipedia

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    The name Vestapol refers to an open D Major tuning for the guitar, common in finger-style guitar in country and folk music. [ 6 ] Grossman also began to acquire concert footage of the old blues and country artists who had been rediscovered in the 1960s and had often made TV appearances; this was the basis of Vestapol Videos, which edited and ...

  7. New standard tuning - Wikipedia

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    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 minor third apart (E,G).

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings

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    If the octave is also to be indicated, use either Helmholtz pitch notation, as in E–A–d–g–b–e′ for the guitar, or scientific pitch notation, as in E 2 –A 2 –D 3 –G 3 –B 3 –E 4. Although the expert will instantly recognise either of these for what it is, for the benefit of the general reader a link should be provided to the ...

  9. DADGAD - Wikipedia

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    Instead of the standard tuning (E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4) the six guitar strings are tuned, from low to high, D 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 A 3 D 4. Tuning to D A D G A D from standard is accomplished by tuning the first, [a] second, [a] and sixth [a] strings down a whole tone (two frets). The result is an open D, suspended fourth chord. Being suspended, the ...