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In the standard guitar-tuning, one major-third interval is interjected amid four perfect-fourth intervals. In each regular tuning, all string successions have the same interval; all-fifths tuning has perfect fifths between all string successions.
All-fifths tuning.

Among

open strings is a perfect fifth. All-fifths tuning is also called fifths, perfect fifths, or mandoguitar.[1] The conventional "standard tuning" consists of perfect fourths
and a single major third between the g and b strings:

E-A-d-g-b-e'

All-fifths tuning has the set of open strings

C-G-d-a-e'-b' or G'-D-A-e-b-f♯',

which have intervals of 3 octaves minus a half-step between the lowest and highest string. The conventional tuning has an interval of 2 octaves between lowest and highest string.

All-fifths tuning is a tuning in intervals of perfect fifths like that of a mandolin or a violin. It has a wide range. It was used by jazz guitarist Carl Kress in the form

B♭'-F-c-g-d'-a'.[2]

An approximation: new standard tuning

All-fifths tuning has been approximated with tunings that avoid the high b' replacing it with a g' in the

New Standard Tuning of King Crimson's Robert Fripp, which has been taught in Guitar Craft courses.[3][4] Guitar Craft, which has been succeeded by Guitar Circle, has taught Fripp's tuning to 3,000 students.[5]

An approximation: through the looking glass guitar

All-fifths tuning has been approximated with tunings in the Through The Looking Glass Guitar[6] of Kei Nakano, which has been played by him since 2015. This new tuning is like a mirror to all kinds of string instruments including guitar. Also it can adapt to any other tunings of guitar. If tuned to normal guitar for the right handed person, it is able to use for lefty guitar in general, and vice versa.

Relation with all-fourths tuning

open notes
of all-fourths tuning are spaced apart by five semitones, reversing the ordering of all-fifths tuning (with seven semitones).
Main article:
Regular tunings § Left-handed involution

All-fifths tuning is closely related to

inverted chords. Consequently, chord charts for all-fourths tunings may be used for left-handed all-fifths tuning.[7]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Sethares (2001, "The mandoguitar tuning" 62–63): Sethares, Bill (2001). "Regular tunings". Alternate tuning guide (PDF). Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin; Department of Electrical Engineering. pp. 52–67. 2010 Alternate tuning guide, including a revised chapter on regular tunings. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  2. ^ Page 92. Richard Lieberson, "Swing guitar: The acoustic chordal style", pages 89-112. The Guitar in Jazz: An Anthology, Edited by James Sallis. 1996. 978-0-8032-4250-0
  3. ISBN 0-571-16289-4, Zipped Microsoft Word Document, archived from the original
    on 26 October 2011, retrieved 25 March 2012
  4. National Public Radio
    . Retrieved 25 March 2012..
  5. Sku
     partitas001.
  6. ^ "日本特許第6709929号　【発明の名称】弦楽器　【特許権者】中野　圭". patents.google.com. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  7. ^ Sethares (2001, p. 53)

References

Further reading

  • Denyer, Ralph (1992). "Playing the guitar: Alternative tunings". The guitar handbook. Special contributors Isaac Guillory and Alastair M. Crawford (Fully revised and updated ed.). London and Sydney: Pan Books. pp. 158–159.
    ISBN 0-330-32750-X
    .

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