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2. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   Standard tuning is the tuning most frequently used on a six-string guitar and musicians assume this tuning by default if a specific alternate (or scordatura) is not mentioned. In scientific pitch notation, [4] the guitar's standard tuning consists of the following notes: E 2 –A 2 –D 3 –G 3 –B 3 –E 4.

3. Regular tuning - Wikipedia

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   Guitar tunings assign pitches to the open strings of guitars. Tunings can be described by the particular pitches that are denoted by notes in Western music. By convention, the notes are ordered from lowest to highest. The standard tuning defines the string pitches as E, A, D, G, B, and E.

4. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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   The pitches of open strings on a violin. Play ⓘ. In music, the term open string refers to the fundamental note of the unstopped, full string.. The strings of a guitar are normally tuned to fourths (excepting the G and B strings in standard tuning, which are tuned to a third), as are the strings of the bass guitar and double bass.

5. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   Mi-composé is a tuning commonly used for rhythm guitar in African popular music forms such as soukous and makossa. [61] It is similar to the standard guitar tuning, except that the d string is raised an entire octave. This is accomplished by replacing the d string with an e' string and tuning it to d'.

6. Repetitive tuning - Wikipedia

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   Every major-thirds tuning repeats its three notes twice. For the Russian guitar, the open strings form a G-major chord, which is twice repeated. The following tunings repeat their notes after three strings: Major-thirds tuning, such as E-G ♯-c-e-g ♯-c' and; D ♯-G-B-D ♯-G-B-D ♯, [7] Chord inversion is especially simple in major-thirds ...

7. Musical temperament - Wikipedia

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   A series of 12 just fifths as in Pythagorean tuning does not return to the original pitch, but rather differs by a Pythagorean comma, which makes that tonal area of the system more or less unusable. In meantone temperament, this effect is even more pronounced (the fifth over the break in the circle is known as the Wolf interval , as its intense ...