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Guitar tuning
Nashville
The low four strings replaced an octave up — a twelve-string's shimmer from six strings.
Electric · 6 in line
Acoustic · 3 + 3
6th
E3
164.8 Hz
5th
A3
220.0 Hz
4th
D4
293.7 Hz
3rd
G4
392.0 Hz
2nd
B3
246.9 Hz
1st
E4
329.6 Hz
Note names won’t tune your guitar.
Knowing the strings should read E A D G B E is the easy half. Landing each frequency — and knowing whether you are nine cents flat or three — is the half that needs an ear or an instrument.
1
Open Dial and play a string
It listens as soon as you play. Nothing to press.
2
Turn each peg until the needle centres
With a Nashville string set fitted, the low four strings tune an octave above their standard pitches.
3
Check the remaining strings
Changing tension on one string shifts the neck slightly. The rest usually need a nudge.
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What Nashville tuning is for
A studio trick: layer it under a standard-tuned guitar playing the same part and the pair rings like a twelve-string. It needs its own light-gauge string set — ordinary strings cannot survive being tuned up an octave.
A few chords to try
E
Open
Am
Open
D
Open