Tunings is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tunings meaning
plural of tuning
Using Tunings
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of tuning
- In the example corpus, tunings often appears in combinations such as: alternative tunings, open tunings, alternate tunings.
Context around Tunings
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tunings
- In this selection, "tunings" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, open, guitar, regular, once, exist and brother stand out and add context to how "tunings" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include above standard tunings and alternate guitar tunings trained my. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tunings" sits close to words such as abdulaziz, acacia and accrington, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tunings
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A variety of tunings may be used. (7 words)
Five-string banjo players use many tunings. (7 words)
Her guitar playing often featuring alternate tunings. (7 words)
Currently a new generation of musicians use open tunings (e.g. Open D), but typically, Hawaiian music for virtually the last 100 years has used more complex tunings once musicians could manipulate bars to execute diagonal barrings, both forward and back. (41 words)
A few weeks after the birth of her daughter in 1965, Joni Anderson was gigging again around Yorkville, beginning to sing more of her original material for the first time, written with her unique open tunings. (36 words)
Eventually she taught herself guitar from a Pete Seeger songbook, citation but the polio had affected her fingers, and she had to devise dozens of alternative tunings of her own. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Currently a new generation of musicians use open tunings (e.g. Open D), but typically, Hawaiian music for virtually the last 100 years has used more complex tunings once musicians could manipulate bars to execute diagonal barrings, both forward and back.
Other tunings exist, including "cross-tunings," in which the usually doubled string runs are tuned to different pitches.
So do many irregular tunings such as well temperaments and Just Intonation tunings.
Fluid in both Slack Key and standard guitar tunings, Brother Noland whose website is BrotherNoland.com goes wherever the music carries him.
Her music often encompasses bespoke tunings and song structures that defy categorization.
But I think years of continually disorienting myself with alternate guitar tunings trained my brain to understand intervals on different instruments, so I just used my ear,” Louise says.
A few weeks after the birth of her daughter in 1965, Joni Anderson was gigging again around Yorkville, beginning to sing more of her original material for the first time, written with her unique open tunings.
All meantone temperaments fall on the syntonic temperament 's tuning continuum, citation and as such are "syntonic tunings".
Alternative Chords can be shifted diagonally in major-thirds tuning and other regular tunings.
American folk violinists of the Appalachians and Ozarks often employ alternate tunings for dance songs and ballads.
Antiquity Mesopotamia See also Music of Mesopotamia Sumerian and Akkadian tablets include musical information of a theoretical nature, mainly lists of intervals and tunings.
A variety of tunings may be used.
Between these sizes and standard lies the A-scale banjo, which is two frets shorter and usually tuned one full step above standard tunings.
Common bottleneck tunings are open D and E chords.
Cyr 1982 The sizes, names, and tunings of the cello varied widely by geography and time.
Eventually she taught herself guitar from a Pete Seeger songbook, citation but the polio had affected her fingers, and she had to devise dozens of alternative tunings of her own.
Five-string banjo players use many tunings.
For the regular tunings, chords may be moved diagonally around the fretboard.
Hawaiian tunings evolved from A Major and E Major to E7, C sharp Minor, C sharp Minor 9th, F sharp Minor 9th, B11th and the popular E 13th.
Her guitar playing often featuring alternate tunings.
Common combinations with tunings
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: