Talk:Guitar tunings

The image showing the guitar standard tuning is an OCTAVE TOO HIGH
The description above says it all. The 1st string (high E in standard) is is a minor third above middle C. The rest of the chord goes DOWN in pitch from there.

If you're going to display the tuning as a chord using standard notation it should be in the bass clef. Either that, or move the chord diagram down to the location where it says "the guitar is a transposing instrument" and adjust the caption.


 * Signed and dated for archive purposes only. William Harris •   (talk) •  08:53, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

DOUBLE Dropped Tunings
Although it makes no sense to mention Drop D, Drop C#, Drop C, Drop B, etc as separate tunings since they are all the same just a step lower, I think it is definitely worth mentioning DOUBLE Drop tuning. This is where you drop the 2 lowest strings down a step, so the intervals starting from the lowest string are 4th, 5th, 4th, etc, and the bottom four strings are made of the same two notes, which is especially useful on a 7 string when used for Metalcore style riffing and double stacked power chords with one finger across the bottom four strings. It is also very useful for very low tunings because power chords on the bottom 2 strings are very muddy, so the 5th interval is moved across to the 2nd and 3rd strings which make for less muddy power chords while still having range to go really low. The band Northlane uses this concept with a 7-string "Double Drop F" Tuning: F-A#-F-A#-D#-G-C.

Double Drop tuning also makes some riffs more comfortable by reducing the amount of finger stretching required, this is most apparent when trying to play the main riff from Nothing Left by As I Lay Dying. Although you can play this song in Drop-C, it's a lot more comfortable in Double Drop C (C-F-C-F-A-D).


 * Signed and dated for archive purposes only. William Harris •   (talk) •  08:53, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert used EEe tuning (each an octave apart) on the songs Three E's for Edward, Get Out Of My Yard and (if im not mistaken, and possibly in a different key) Let The Computer Decide. During the 2009 Mr Big reunion tour there is a duet with Paul Gilbert and bassist Billy Sheehan (using the drummer and singer as human capos, a gimmick also used in the GOOMY intro), both of whom are tuned to DDd (iirc). That seems notable to me. Perhaps it should be mentioned in the misc tunings section or in the ostrich tuning description.


 * Signed and dated for archive purposes only. William Harris •   (talk) •  08:53, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Top? Bottom? What is 1st?
As someone who is not a guitarist, and who was seeking information on tuning, I've encountered two articles on Wikipedia that identify the strings by number, but I don't know if they are counting from the bottom up or the top down. So, an illustration of both the body and the neck, oriented in a "normal" playing position, with the string tunings / string number would be helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kjcole (talk • contribs) 16:54, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Rework the table to focus on intervals rather than root note
Since there are many ways to get "Open X", it doesn't make sense to have the keys categorized by "Open A" or "Open B", since that doesn't make sense to anyone and can refer to completely different tunings. There's really only three groups of common tuning intervals: - the Open C tuning of R-5-R-5-R-3 - Open D/Open E/Vestapol tuning of R-5-R-3-5-R (The "Overtones" tuning is basically this tuning, starting on string 2, with a doubled bass string instead of the high octave), - Open G, Open A, Spanish or Chicago tuning of 5-R-5-R-3-5