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A dropped tuning is one of the categories of alternative tunings and the process starts with standard tuning and typically lowers the pitch of ("drops") one or more strings, almost always the lowest-pitched (E) string on the guitar. The drop D tuning is common in electric guitar and heavy metal music. [19]
The predecessor of today's six-string classical guitar was the five-string baroque guitar tuned as the five high strings of a six-string guitar with the A raised one octave. High C – E-A-d-g-c' Standard tuning with the B tuned a half step higher to C to emulate a six-string bass guitar, minus the low B.
Choice of tuning depends whether the added string is low or high. Guitar, bass (6-string) 6 strings 6 courses. Standard/common: B 0 E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2 C 3. Alternate: E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2 B 2 E 3. Bass, electric bass, 6-string bass, contrabass guitar Essentially a 4-string bass with either added high and low strings. Guitar, bass (8-string) 8 strings 4 ...
Drop D tuning. Drop D tuning is an alternative form of guitar tuning in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down from the usual E of standard tuning by one whole step to D. [1] So where standard tuning is E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 (EADGBe), drop D is D 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 (DADGBe).
All strings are numbered, so for example the string closest to the player of a twelve-string guitar is always string twelve, and never "string six secondary" or similar constructions. In the context of instruments that possess at least one multi-string course , a single string normally played on its own may also be called a course .
seven-string guitar – B 1 E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4 (identical, except for the low B, which is a perfect fourth below the low E on a 6-stringed guitar) four-string bass guitar (most popular) – E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2 (its standard tuning coincides with that of a 4-stringed double bass)