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ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: As the first tuning you learn when you start playing the guitar, ‘standard’ EADGBE tuning should be familiar to most guitarists. Any change to these notes is known as an altered ...

30-day guitar challenge: It's day 3, and time to broaden your horizons - DADGAD tuning often goes hand in hand with acoustic guitar in folk circles, but it's equally at home on the electric. The folk ...

Non-standard open or altered tunings crop up frequently in blues, folk and country music. One reason for this is that they can greatly facilitate slide playing. But another is that unusual chord ...