Definition of Regular tuning
Among alternative guitar-tunings, regular tunings have equal musical intervals between the paired notes of their successive open strings.
Guitar tunings assign pitches to the open strings of guitars. Tunings can be described by the particular pitches that are denoted by notes in Western music. By convention, the notes are ordered from lowest to highest. The standard tuning defines the string pitches as E, A, D, G, B, and E. Between the open-strings of the standard tuning are three perfect-fourths (E–A, A–D, D–G), then the major third G–B, and the fourth perfect-fourth B–E.
In contrast, regular tunings have constant intervals between their successive open-strings:
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What is Regular tuning?
Among alternative guitar-tunings, regular tunings have equal musical intervals between the paired notes of their successive open strings.
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