Category: Interval tunings

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Intervallic (a.k.a. ‘regular’) tunings: all adjacent strings are separated by the same number of semitones [6 tunings]

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All Minor 3rds (‘Diminished’)


• G-Bb-Db-E-G-Bb

Jumping in narrow threes will clarify your octave-slicing abilities…

 

All Major 3rds (‘Augmented’)


• E-Ab-C-E-Ab-C •

Splitting the octave up into three jumps of four frets each…

 

All Perfect 4ths (‘Regular’)


• E-A-D-G-C-F •

Simplify the fretboard’s geometry by eradicating the 3>2str ‘kink’…

 

All Tritones (‘Symmetric’)


• C-Gb-C-Gb-C-Gb

No, it was never banned as ‘the Devil’s interval’ – listen to why…

 

All Perfect 5ths (‘Quintal’)


• A-E-B-F#-C#-G#

Walk upwards through the first half of the cycle of 5ths…

 

All Minor 6ths (‘Aug. Flip’)


• F-Db-A-F-Db-A •

Go ‘inverse augmented’ with ultra-wide eight-fret jumps…

 

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