Music Theory Tools

Guitar tuning

Standard Tuning

Standard tuning is the default six-string guitar tuning and the reference point for most scale, chord, and fretboard patterns.

Notes low to high
EADGBE
Strings
6
Default frets
24
Open pitch range
E2 to E4
24-fret pitch range
E2 to E6
Also called
E Standard, EADGBE

Common uses

Open this tuning in the fretboard tool

Start with standard tuning loaded, then adjust root, scale, fret count, labels, colors, and orientation.

Open in interactive fretboard
E Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale core scale for this tuning's low-string root E Minor Blues Guitar Scale blues and rock vocabulary around the low-string root E Natural Minor (Aeolian) Guitar Scale full minor-key reference pattern E Major (Ionian) Guitar Scale major-scale reference pattern
E Minor Guitar Arpeggio core minor-triad outline around the tuning root E Minor 7 Guitar Arpeggio minor seventh vocabulary around the tuning root E Major Guitar Arpeggio major-triad reference around the tuning root E Dominant 7 Guitar Arpeggio dominant seventh reference around the tuning root