What is standard tuning?
What we guitarists consider “standard tuning” has been around pretty much since the fifth and sixth strings were added to the instrument in the late 1700’s. And, artists being artists, “non-standard” or “alternate” tunings have existed for just about as long. For the sake of our discussions, we will divide guitar tunings into three categories – standard, open, and alternate. Standard tuning is what we were taught from day one (low to high or 6th string to 1st): E A D G B E For more information on tunings see the article Open Tuning – Part 1. This answer can be edited and improved by you on the Guitar Noise Wiki. Go to Standard tuning and select edit to make improvements.
