page_title: Standard tuning
section_title: Guitar family
hierarchical_section_title: Standard tuning / Guitar family
caption_attribution_description: English: Guitar standard tuning.
context_page_description: In music, standard tuning refers to the typical tuning of a string instrument. This notion is contrary to that of scordatura, i.e. an alternate tuning designated to modify either the timbre or technical capabilities of the desired instrument.
context_section_description: Guitars and bass guitars have more standard tunings, depending on the number of strings an instrument has.
  six-string guitar (the most common configuration) – E₂ A₂ D₃ G₃ B₃ E₄ (ascending perfect fourths, with an exception between G and B, which is a major third). Low E falls a major third above the C on a standard-tuned cello.
  Renaissance lute – E₂ A₂ D₃ F♯₃ B₃ E₄ (used by classical guitarists for certain pieces; identical to standard guitar tuning, except for the F♯, lowered one semitone from the standard G string, making a perfect fourth between 2nd and 3rd rather than 3rd and 4th strings)
  seven-string guitar – B₁ E₂ A₂ D₃ G₃ B₃ E₄ (identical, except for the low B, which is a perfect fourth below the low E on a 6-stringed guitar)
  four-string bass guitar (most popular) – E₁ A₁ D₂ G₂ (its standard tuning coincides with that of a 4-stringed double bass)
  five-string bass – B₀ E₁ A₁ D₂ G₂ (identical to 4-stringed bass with the addition of a low B string a perfect fourth below the E).
  six-string bass – B₀ E₁ A₁ D₂ G₂ C₃ (identical to 5-stringed bass with the addition of a high C string a perfect fourth above the G).
  Baritone (older use) / 6 string bass (older use) such as the Fender Bass VI – E₁ A₁ D₂ G₂ B₂ E₃ (Similar to a standard guitar but an octave lower, and often played like a standard guitar rather than a bass guitar.)
  Baritone guitar (contemporary versions) – B₁ E₂ A₂ D₃ F♯₃ B₃ a fourth below standard tuning, although A₁ to A₃; a fifth lower is also used.
  12-string guitar  E₃ E₂ A₃ A₂ D₄ D₃ G₄ G₃ B₃ B₃ E₄ E₄ in six two-string courses.
caption: Guitar standard tuning (written an octave higher than it sounds).
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