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  2. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Creed, Architects, all use this tuning tuned a half-step down on their songs "Bread of Shame", "Early Grave" respectively. Danish industrial metal band Raunchy used this tuning tuned one and a half-step down (F#-E-A-D-f#-B) on the song "Dim the Lights and Run" from the album A Discord Electric.

  3. Musical tuning - Wikipedia

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    The most commonly used tuning is A-E-A-E. Likewise banjo players in this tradition use many tunings to play melody in different keys. A common alternative banjo tuning for playing in D is A-D-A-D-E. Many Folk guitar players also used different tunings from standard, such as D-A-D-G-A-D, which is very popular for Irish music.

  4. 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).

  5. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    D Tuning, also called One Step Lower, Whole Step Down, Full Step or D Standard, is another alternative. Each string is lowered by a whole tone (two semitones) resulting in D-G-C-F-A-D . It is used mostly by heavy metal bands to achieve a heavier, deeper sound, and by blues guitarists, who use it to accommodate string bending and by 12-string ...

  6. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    "Zoltán Kodály" tuning: B 1 F ♯ 2 D 3 A 3 "Whole step down" tuning: B ♭ 1 F 2 C 3 G 3. Celo: 4 strings celovic celloses ginga Croatia Serbia Slovenia This is the modern instrument Čelovič, 4 string 4 strings 4 courses. E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3: Celo, Csello, Cselo Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia This is the modern instrument again Čelovič, Farkas 6 ...

  7. Banjo guitar - Wikipedia

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    Banjo guitar, also known as banjitar [1] or ganjo, [2] is a six-string banjo tuned in the standard tuning of a six-string guitar (E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4 from lowest to highest strings). The instrument is intended to allow guitar players to emulate a banjo, without learning the different tuning and fingering techniques required for the standard five ...

  8. Reentrant tuning - Wikipedia

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    The fifth string on the five string banjo, called the thumb string, also called the "drone string", is five frets shorter than the other four and is normally tuned higher than any of the other four, giving a re-entrant tuning such as the bluegrass G 4-D 3-G 3-B 3-D 4. The five string banjo is particularly used in bluegrass music and old-time music.

  9. Five-limit tuning - Wikipedia

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    5-limit Tonnetz. Five-limit tuning, 5-limit tuning, or 5-prime-limit tuning (not to be confused with 5-odd-limit tuning), is any system for tuning a musical instrument that obtains the frequency of each note by multiplying the frequency of a given reference note (the base note) by products of integer powers of 2, 3, or 5 (prime numbers limited to 5 or lower), such as 2 −3 ·3 1 ·5 1 = 15/8.