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C♯ standard tuning
C♯ standard tuner online: C♯ F♯ B E G♯ C♯, every string three semitones down. Tune with your phone's mic, hear each string, and the strings it needs.
Three semitones down on all six. Mika lets each low string ring before he reads it.The microphone closes when you stop, when all is in tune, or after half a minute of quiet. Nothing is recorded.
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Tap start. Play any string and let it ring. Without the microphone, tap a note above to hear it.
C♯ standard: the strings and their notes
| String | Standard | C♯ standard | Change | Hz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st string | E4 | C♯4 | 3 semitones down | 277.2 |
| 2nd string | B3 | G♯3 | 3 semitones down | 207.7 |
| 3rd string | G3 | E3 | 3 semitones down | 164.8 |
| 4th string | D3 | B2 | 3 semitones down | 123.5 |
| 5th string | A2 | F♯2 | 3 semitones down | 92.5 |
| 6th string | E2 | C♯2 | 3 semitones down | 69.3 |
Tuning a step and a half down
What C♯ standard is
C♯ standard keeps the intervals of standard tuning and lowers every string three semitones: C♯ F♯ B E G♯ C♯ from the 6th to the 1st. Chord shapes and scale patterns stay; the guitar sounds a minor third lower. It is a doom and heavy rock tuning: low enough to feel heavy, high enough to keep a normal guitar playable with a slightly heavier set.
Written in flats it would be D♭ standard, but with C♭ and F♭ in it nobody writes it that way: players say C♯ standard. Its drop version, with the 6th string a whole step lower again at B, is drop B.
How to tune to C♯ standard from standard
With the tuner above: tap Start, play each string the table changes and turn until the needle sits in the middle. By ear, without the tuner:
- Tune the 6th string to C♯2 first, from the tone of the string chip above (tap it with the tuner stopped) or a piano.
- 5th string: A2 to F♯2. The 6th string at its 5th fret (F♯2) should sound like this string open.
- 4th string: D3 to B2. The 5th string at its 5th fret (B2) should sound like this string open.
- 3rd string: G3 to E3. The 4th string at its 5th fret (E3) should sound like this string open.
- 2nd string: B3 to G♯3. The 3rd string at its 4th fret (G♯3) should sound like this string open.
- 1st string: E4 to C♯4. The 2nd string at its 5th fret (C♯4) should sound like this string open.
Then check the whole tuning once more with the tuner: retuning one string moves the neck, and the others drift a few cents.
On the same strings, tension follows the square of the pitch: every string keeps 71 % of its pull. Slacker strings buzz and read flat at the attack; for more than a whole step down, a heavier set (or at least a heavier low string) keeps the feel.
What one finger plays
Every chord shape you know keeps working; it sounds 3 semitones lower. A capo at the 3rd fret brings you back to standard pitch, which is how players in C♯ standard join a band that plays in standard.
Strings for C♯ standard
- Each string keeps 71 % of its pull on the same gauge: an 11 to 52 set brings back most of the feel of 10s in standard.
- The low C♯ at 69.3 Hz rings long; tune with the string fully sustained, not on the attack.
- A semitone higher: D standard; a semitone lower: C standard.
All six strings in standard and the other tunings: the guitar tuner. Any note at all: the chromatic tuner.
Then play something
The notes you tuned can go into Brumm as a short melody over a beat. Hum a line on top and it becomes an instrument.
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