Shit No One Cares About Whats your favourite guitar tuning

[Alextremo2TheMax]

Mine is standard C:
C F A# D# G C

 

[baqqrih]

I don't know anything about guitar tuning but I think if you turned the knobs randomly it'd make some funny noises

 

[Alextremo2TheMax]

I don't know anything about guitar tuning but I think if you turned the knobs randomly it'd make some funny noises

When you hold down a fret on a guitar string to effectively truncate the length of the vibration along the string which shortens the wavelength so it increases the frequency of sound it produces, so you can sound different notes
By tensioning the strings it increases it's resonant frequency so it will change the note it sounds when you pluck the open string (or zero fret), and it will also therefore change the notes it will sound along different frets
Standard tuning (E A D G B E):

You can see on a standard tuning here the zero fret on the top string is tuned to produce an E4 note (~330Hz), and playing that string higher up at the first fret will play an F4 note (~350Hz)

This is C tuning, where each string has it's tension released so the notes they produce are each two whole-steps lower than normal tuning
As you can all of the notes associated with each fret have now been lowered to produce different notes
You can use different tunings to play the same melody or chord with a different hand position or at increased or decreased octaves (same note but higher or lower pitch)

 

[baqqrih]

When you hold down a fret on a guitar string to effectively truncate the length of the vibration along the string which shortens the wavelength so it increases the frequency of sound it produces, so you can sound different notes
By tensioning the strings it increases it's resonant frequency so it will change the note it sounds when you pluck the open string (or zero fret), and it will also therefore change the notes it will sound along different frets
Standard tuning (E A D G B E):
View attachment 58943
You can see on a standard tuning here the zero fret on the top string is tuned to produce an E4 note (~330Hz), and playing that string higher up at the first fret will play an F4 note (~350Hz)
View attachment 58946
This is C tuning, where each string has it's tension released so the notes they produce are each two whole-steps lower than normal tuning
As you can all of the notes associated with each fret have now been lowered to produce different notes
You can use different tunings to play the same melody or chord with a different hand position or at increased or decreased octaves (same note but higher or lower pitch)

Very neat, thank you for explaining it.

 

[king nothing]

DGCFAD

 

[Alextremo2TheMax]

Very neat, thank you for explaining it.

+ small thing of note, the frets on the neck of the guitar are not spaced consistently, they decrease in spacing towards the higher frequencies to correspond with a logarithmic increase by 1/12, which means every fret up means + 1 semitone, regardless of the tuning of the string.
i.e. if your top string is tuned to middle C (note C in the 4th octave at ~260Hz) then the first fret is C# (or B flat, just the semitone between the two) at ~278Hz, which is an increase by 5.95% (1.05946 equal to 12th root of 2). So you're just multiplying the frequency (dividing the wavelength) by this constant value for every semitone up

The mathematical basis for this value is that because we use a 12 note scale, to go a full octave up (which is doubling in frequency), you need a number that when you multiply by it 12 times, it doubles the frequency, that's where the 2 and the 12 comes from, the only approximation comes from the manufacturing of the guitar (also it's an irrational number obviously)

You basically only use the first 12 frets on a string anyway so that means you get to pick a range of notes the size of one octave for each string
Usually they overlap (as they do in the case of standard tuning as per the above diagram) because otherwise you would have one string for each octave, you don't need six octaves, and it would be laborious to fully utilise anyway. Also the difference in the tensions you would require to go all the way from the zeroth or first octave up to the 6th or 7th octave would be retarded to do on a guitar
You just pick the tuning that makes it physically easier to play whatever key or melody you want

 

[Twostripe]

Ostrich tuning because tuning all your strings to E is funny

 

[FrogKing]

>using your penis to play the guitar

 

[FrogKing]

Music theory is for niggers and you'll never go anywhere with it btw

 

[Alextremo2TheMax]

Music theory is for niggers and you'll never go anywhere with it btw

even though it's fun and you get to play music which is fun and also I do engineering so it doesn't matter

 

[FrogKing]

>music theory is fun because it allows me to play epic gems like the Soviet anthem and Megalovania in class!

 

[Alextremo2TheMax]

When you hold down a fret on a guitar string to effectively truncate the length of the vibration along the string which shortens the wavelength so it increases the frequency of sound it produces, so you can sound different notes
By tensioning the strings it increases it's resonant frequency so it will change the note it sounds when you pluck the open string (or zero fret), and it will also therefore change the notes it will sound along different frets
Standard tuning (E A D G B E):
View attachment 58943
You can see on a standard tuning here the zero fret on the top string is tuned to produce an E4 note (~330Hz), and playing that string higher up at the first fret will play an F4 note (~350Hz)
View attachment 58946
This is C tuning, where each string has it's tension released so the notes they produce are each two whole-steps lower than normal tuning
As you can all of the notes associated with each fret have now been lowered to produce different notes
You can use different tunings to play the same melody or chord with a different hand position or at increased or decreased octaves (same note but higher or lower pitch)

look at the C tuning and compare it with standard tuning. Since C tuning is just the same for each string as standard tuning but two notes lower, that means the notes for each fret are also only shifted down by two notes, which is why in C tuning from the 4th fret onwards, it's just a copy of standard tuning

 

[Alextremo2TheMax]

You're saying I can play the songs from all my favourite reddit meme videos? Right from my fingertips? Splendid, my friends in class will love this!