A five string guitar tuning
In this tuning, all common triads and sevenths can be played with two simple barre shapes——root position and second inversion——that are voiced well and sound good with distortion.
The tuning is highly irregular but there are some repeating patterns useful for visualising and playing, resulting from the common intervals between some strings:
- Perfect fifth: G–D, D–A, F–C
- Minor third: D–F, A–C
- Minor seventh: G–F, D–C
A diagonal approach to the fretboard takes advantage of this.