Guitar Tunings

Big City String Company...

This page contains names and spellings for 28 alternate tunings on the guitar....
http://www.bigcitystring.com/tunings.htm

Canadian Journal for Traditional Music...

This page contains a lengthy and very informative article about altered tunings for the guitar....
http://cjtm.icaap.org/content/20/v20art4.html

Compass Rose Music...

This page contains an interesting and informative beginning intermediate level introduction to guitar tunings....
http://www.compassrosemusic.com/lesson14.html

Guitar.About.com...

This page contains specific instructions for re-tuning to a half dozen of the most frequently used alternate tunings for the guitar....
http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa082201a.htm

Guitar-Online.com...

This page contains a link for a free download of a standard pitch guitar tuner that will facilitate your return to standard tuning after using alternate tunings....
http://www.guitar-online.com/tools.htm

Joni Mitchell Discussion List...

This page details numerous alternate tunings and the self-fashioned system for identifying them used by Joni Mitchell....
http://jmdl.com/howard/music/joni_notation.html

LucyScaleDevelopments...

This page contains a complicated and exhaustive listing of well over 200 alternate tunings for the guitar....
http://www.harmonics.com/lucy/lsd/altun.html

PelicanCrossing.net...

This page contains general comments on working with tunings, and tips on playing in a half dozen of the most frequently used alternate tunings for the guitar....
http://www.pelicancrossing.net/tunings.htm

RichieHavens.com...

This page contains the iconic artist's own description of his unique signature style of play in OPEN D tuning....
http://www.richiehavens.com/HM3365.htm

Slack Key Guitar...

This page contains a detailed history of the Hawaiin slack key guitar tradition....
http://www.kbeamer.com/sk_history.html

Steve McWilliam's Guitar Pages...

This page contains an exhaustive list of names and spellings for 93 alternate tunings for the guitar....
http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/guitar/tunings.htm

Wikipedia...

This page contains a lengthy and very informative article on guitar tunings that includes numerous sub-links to additional content....
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_tuning

These web site links are listed as a convenience to our visitors. If you use these links, we take no responsibility and give no guarantees, warranties or representations, implied or otherwise, for the content or accuracy of these third-party sites.