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  2. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The guitar is a transposing instrument; that is, music for guitars is notated one octave higher than the true pitch.This is to reduce the need for ledger lines in music written for the instrument, and thus simplify the reading of notes when playing the guitar.

  3. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    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. The term "out of tune" refers to a pitch/tone that is either too high or too low in relation to a given reference pitch. While an ...

  4. Tablature - Wikipedia

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    Example of numeric vihuela tablature from the book "Orphenica Lyra" by Miguel de Fuenllana (1554). Red numerals (original) mark the vocal part. Red numerals (original) mark the vocal part. Modern day digital guitar tablature of " Smells like teen spirit " by the band Nirvana , viewed on a mobile phone

  5. Transcription (music) - Wikipedia

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    Pitch detection upon a monophonic recording was a relatively simple task, and its technology enabled the invention of guitar tuners in the 1970s. However, pitch detection upon polyphonic music becomes a much more difficult task because the image of its spectrogram now appears as a vague cloud due to a multitude of overlapping comb patterns ...

  6. Copedent - Wikipedia

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    It was coined in 1969 by Steel Guitar Hall of Fame member Tom Bradshaw [2] and first reached a wide audience in a 1972 article in Guitar Player magazine. [3] A complete copedent includes the order of strings, their tuning, string gauges, and whether a string is plain or wound; it also indicates how any string's pitch is changed by applying a ...

  7. Guitar chord - Wikipedia

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    The playing of conventional chords is simplified by open tunings, which are especially popular in folk, blues guitar and non-Spanish classical guitar (such as English and Russian guitar). For example, the typical twelve-bar blues uses only three chords , each of which can be played (in every open tuning) by fretting six strings with one finger.

  8. Chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    A guitarist performing a C chord with G bass. In Western music theory, a chord is a group [a] of notes played together for their harmonic consonance or dissonance.The most basic type of chord is a triad, so called because it consists of three distinct notes: the root note along with intervals of a third and a fifth above the root note. [1]

  9. Headstock - Wikipedia

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    The value of "magic angle" (called headstock pitch) that gives the best tone and stability is also very debatable, but it is usually in a range from 3° to 25°. For example, various manufacturers and particular guitar models use: Guitars 4°: Guild; 11°: Martin [2] 12°: Bigsby, [3] Yamaha SGV [4] 13°: Peavey, [5] Warmoth [6] [7]