Guitar tunings: Stringed instrument tunings, Baritone guitar, Slack-key guitar, New standard tuning, DADGAD, Drop D tuning, E¿ tuning, Open D tuning, Double drop D tuning, Open C tuning, All fourths, Dropped A tuning, Drop C tuning, B¿ tuning

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Chapters: Stringed instrument tunings, Baritone guitar, Slack-key guitar, New standard tuning, DADGAD, Drop D tuning, E¿ tuning, Open D tuning, Double drop D tuning, Open C tuning, All fourths, Dropped A tuning, Drop C tuning, B¿ tuning, Paul McSherry, E9 tuning, B tuning, Bass guitar tuning, Dropped B tuning, Drop D¿ tuning, Ostrich guitar, Pikasso guitar, Open E tuning, Open G tuning, Drop B¿ tuning, All fifths, List of guitar tunings, C6 tuning, Hardcore tuning, Terz guitar, Universal tuning, Open B tuning, Le Igi. Excerpt: Like many other stringed instruments, the tuning arrangement of the guitar can be easily modified. Guitar tunings almost always refers to the pitch of the open ("unfretted") string, though some tunings may only realistically be attained by the use of a capo of an unmodified instrument. When speaking of a tuning such as standard tuning, EADGBE refers to the pitches of the strings from lowest pitch (low E) to highest (high E). Standard tuning (listen) Notes in standard tuning. Making a standard tuning using overtonesStandard tuning is by far the most popular tuning on a 6-string guitar. It consists of the following notes. The pitches referred to above are referenced standard pitch (a' = 440.0 Hz.). In some regions of Europe, especially Germany, Serbia and Poland, and in Russia and Ukraine, where classical musicians use the German system, the B natural is indicated with the letter H: in music notation, H is B (B natural) and B is B (B flat). This pattern can also be denoted as E-A-d-g-b-e'. (See note for an explanation of the various symbols used in the above table and elsewhere in this article.) Standard tuning has evolved to provide a good compromise between simple fingering for many chords and the ability to play common scales with minimal left hand movement. The separation of the first (e') and second (b) string, as well as the separation between the third (g), fourth (d), fifth (A), and sixth (E) strings by a five-semitone interval (a perfect fourth) allows notes of the chromatic scale to be played with each of the four fingers of the left hand controlling one of the first four frets (index finger on fret 1, little finger on fret 4, etc.). It also yields a symmetry and intelligibility to fingering patterns. The separation of the second (b), and third (g) string is by a four-semitone interval (a major third). Though this breaks the fingering pattern of the chromatic scale and thus the symmetry, it eases the playing of some often-used chords and scales, and it provi