All fifths | |
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Basic information | |
Aliases | Perfect-fifths tuning |
Interval | Perfect fifth |
Semitones | 7 |
Example(s) | C-G-d-a-e'-b' or G'-D-A-e-b-f♯' |
Advanced information | |
Other instruments | violin, cello, mandolin, tenor banjo |
Repetition | No |
Advantages | Wide range; natural for concert stringed-instrument music |
Disadvantages | Difficult to play standard-guitar music |
Left-handed tuning | All-fourths tuning |
Associated musician | |
Guitarist | Carl Kress |
Carl Kress played jazz with all-fifths tuning. | |
Regular tunings (semitones) | |
Trivial (0) | |
Minor thirds (3) | |
Major thirds (4) | |
All fourths (5) | |
Augmented fourths (6) | |
New standard (7, 3) | |
All fifths (7) | |
Minor sixths (8) | |
Guitar tunings |
Among guitar tunings, all-fifths tuning refers to the set of tunings in which each interval between consecutive 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:
All-fifths tuning has the set of open strings
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