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 interval between one string and the next is mostly kept consistent, with the first (e) to second (b) string as well as the third (G), fourth (D), fifth (A) and sixth (E) all being a five-semitone interval (a perfect fourth). This 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 exception of this is the relation of second string (b) to the third (G), where the interval is only four semitones (a major third). This exception is there to make barre chords possible.
Standard tuning is also called "E standard", since both the highest and the lowest strings are tuned to the note E. This is a reference to the fact that other tunings preserve the same relationship between strings, but tune all of them down (common) or up (rare) by some amount. See "Eb Standard" and "D standard".
As with any tuning, you can use an electric tuner to tune each string, but there are also some other common methods that have developed for tuning standard tuning:
- Fretting method (also called 5:th fret method). This uses the fact that the note of each open string is the same as a fretted note on a thicker string:
5:th fret on low E is the same as open A.
5:th fret on A is the same as open D.
5:th fret on D is the same as open G.
4:th fret on G is the same as open b.
5:th fret on b is the same as open high e.
Start with one string which is in tune, and then compare it to the strings next to it to tune those.
- Harmonics method. Same as the fretting method above, but instead of comparing the 5:th fret of a string to the next open string, you compare the 5:th fret harmonic on one string with the 7:th fret harmonic on the next. This works between all the strings except between G and b. Instead, compare the open b string to the 7:th fret harmonic of the low E string.
- Open chord method. Tune the lowest E string. Then finger an E major chord, and tune each strings so that it is in tune with the chord.
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Nick Drake | Saturday Sun | Tanworth In Arden II | View Tab |
Neil Young | My My Hey Hey Out of the Blue | Rust Never Sleeps | View Tab |
Nick Drake | Blossom Friend | View Tab | |
The Tallest Man On Earth | The Drying of the Lawns | The Wild Hunt | |
Chris Tomlin | Our God is greater | ||
Shine Down | |||
Radiohead | street spirit | View Tab | |
Asking Alexandria | If You Cant Ride Two Horses At Once Stay Out Of The Circus | Stand Up & Scream | View Tab |
Alice In Chains | |||
Rodriguez | Crucify Your Mind | Cold Fact | View Tab |
Rodriguez | Sugar Man | Cold Fact | View Tab |
Rodriguez | A Most Disgusting Song | After The Fact | View Tab |
Rodriguez | Cause | After The Fact | View Tab |
Rodriguez | I Think Of You | After The Fact | View Tab |
Rodriguez | Establishment Blues | Cold Fact | View Tab |
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Rodriguez | Climb Up on My Music | After The Fact | View Tab |
Fuel | Bad Day | Something Like Human | |
Nirvana | All Songs except Come As You Are Lithium On a Plain Drain You and Lounge Act | Nevermind | |
Pink Floyd | Mother | The Wall | |
Pink Floyd | Another Brick In The Wall pt. II | The Wall | |
Metallica | Master of Puppets | Master of Puppets | |
Metallica | Fade To Black | Ride The Lightning | |
Metallica | Enter Sandman | Metallica | View Tab |
Metallica | Nothing Else Matters | Metallica | |
Metallica | Welcome Home Sanitarium | Master of Puppets | |
Black Sabbath | Paramoid | Paranoid | View Tab |
Black Sabbath | Iron Man | Paranoid | View Tab |
Shinedown | The Crow And The Butterfly | The Sound of Madness | |
Metallica | The Unforgiven | Metallica | |
Acdc | Most songs except for a couple | ||
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Under The Bridge | Blood Sugar Sex Magic | |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Give it Away | Blood Sugar Sex Magic | |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Suck My Kiss | Blood Sugar Sex Magic | |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Fight Like A Brave | Uplift Mofo Party PLan | |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | By The Way | By The Way | |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Scar Tissue | Californication | |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Otherside | Californication | |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Californication | Californication | |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Parallell Universe | Californication | |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Road Trippin | Californication | |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Universally Speaking | By The Way | |
Collective Soul | December | Collective Soul (Blue) | |
Collective Soul | The World I Know | Collective Soul (Blue) | |
Fuel | Hemmorrage In My Hands | Something Like Human | |
Metallica | Hit The Lights | Kill Em All | |
Metallica | No Remorse | Kill Em All | |
Metallica | Seek and Destroy | Kill Em All | |
Lacuna Coil | All Songs on In A Reverie and Unleashed Memories | First Two Albums | |
Trapt | Echo | Trapt | |
Opeth | Most Songs | ||
Bush | Glycerine | Sixteen Stone | |
Shinedown | 45 | Leave a Whisper | |
Shinedown | Simple Man | Leave a Whisper | |
Shinedown | Save Me | Us And Them | |
Iron Maiden | Most if not all songs | ||
Red Hot Chili Peppers | If You Have To Ask | Blood Sugar Sex Magic | |
Finger Eleven | All Songs on Album | Them Vs. You Vs. Me | |
Faith No More | The Crab Song | Introduce Yourself | |
Hoobastank | The Reason | The Reason | |
Avenged Sevenfold | So Far Away | Nightmare | |
Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | Wish You Were Here | |
Sublime | Santeria | Sublime | |
Sublime | What I Got | Sublime | |
Sublime | Smoke Two Joints | 40 oz. to Freedom | |
Sublime | Badfish | 40 oz. to Freedom | |
Sublime | Carress Me Down | Sublime | |
Creedence Clearwater Revival | Proud Mary | Bayou Country | |
Creedence Clearwater Revival | Bad Moon Rising | Green River | |
Creedence Clearwater Revival | Have You Ever Seen the Rain | Cosmo's Factory | |
Led Zeppelin | Houses of the Holy | Physical Graffiti | |
Jimi Hendrix | Hey Joe | Are You Experienced? | |
Jimi Hendrix | Foxy Lady | Are You Experienced? | |
Rammstein | Du Hast | Sehnsucht | |
John Denver | Take Me Home Country Roads | Poems, Prayers, & Promises | |
Toe | Premonition Beginning Of A Desert Of Human | Hear You | |
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die | January 10th 2014 | Harmlessness | |
Mineral | Five Eight And Ten | The Power Of Failing | |
Mineral | Gloria | The Power Of Failing | |
The Story So Far | High Regard | Under Soil And Dirt | |
Runaway Chuck | Giants | Runaway Chuck EP | |
The Appleseed Cast | Marigold and Patchwork | The End Of The Ring Wars | |
At The Drive-In | One Armed Scissor | Relationship Of Command | |
At The Drive In | Invalid Litter Dept. | Relationship Of Command | |
Chewing On Tinfoil | Fuck Team Sports | Marrowbone Lane | |
Chewing On Tinfoil | Language | Marrowbone Lane | |
Chewing On Tinfoil | Just Like Me | Marrowbone Lane | |
Lagwagon | May 16th | Let's Talk About Feelings | |
The Dillinger Escape Plan | Farewell Mona Lisa | Option Paralysis | |
The Dillinger Escape Plan | When I Lost My Bet | One Of Us is the Killer | |
Green Day | The Time of Your Life | Nimrod | |
Rammstein | Spiel Mit Mir | Reise,Reise | |
Ministry | Just One Fix | Psalm 69 | |
Sodom | Sodomy And Lust | Expurse Of Sodomy (EP) | |
Devin Townsend | Bend It Like Bender! | Addicted | |
Devin Townsend | Ih-Ah! | Addicted | |
Pantera | EADGBE | Cowboys from hell | |
Hozier | Cherry Wine | Hozier | |
Hozier | Like Real People Do | Hozier | |
The Guy Called Guy | Plongo mope | ||
Slipknot | Circle | Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) | |
Slipknot | Danger - Keep Away | Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) | |
Slipknot | Prelude 3.0 | Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) | |
Tool | Crawl Away | Undertow | |
Haley Heynderickx | The Bug Collector | I Need to Start a Garden | View Tab |
Joji | Pills | In Tongues | |
Joji | Bitter Fuck | In Tongues |
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