This 8-string tuning is a split tuning with descending fourths and ascending fifths like the interior strings of a 10-string Stick in Matched Reciprocal™ tuning. This tuning opens up new scale positions by creating more space between the hands for familiar right-hand scales, thus enabling a strong new scale position when the hands are close together. Because the melody strings are a whole step lower than the Interior 8-String Classic™ tuning, the lettered melody notes match in stacked relationship with the bass on any given fret, descending in 4ths as the bass ascends in 5ths.

    Melody
  1. G
  2. D down a 4th
  3. A down a 4th
  4. E down a 4th
    Bass
  1. C
  2. G up a 5th
  3. D up a 5th
  4. A up a 5th



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