and roll music) are more easily played when the accompanying guitar plays chords in the higher tuning. If standard gauge strings are used, the result is often a "brighter" or "tighter" sound; this was a common practice for some bluegrass bands in the 1950s, notably Flatt & Scruggs.F tuning - F-A-D-G-C-F / F-B-E-A-C-FHalf a step up from standard tuning. Used in most of Harry Chapin and Johnny Cash's music, for "Love Buzz" on Nirvana's Bleach album - apparently by mistake (according to Come As You Are - Michael Azerrad), 3 Doors Down on "Here Without You" (a capo was probably used), Vektor, Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" (The low E string was tuned to Eb/D# for a drop Eb/D# tuning), Nickelback on their song "When We Stand Together", Burzum on his first 3 albums, Immortal on Pure Holocaust, John Fedowitz in his solo project "Ceremony", Joe Jackson on "Got the Time", and Social Distortion on "Ring of Fire".F/G tuning - F-B-E-A-C-F / G-B-E-A-D-GOne full step up from standard. Primary tuning for the band The Chameleons. Johnny Marr also used this tuning extensively with The Smiths; bassist Andy Rourke remained in standard, however, even when Marr was playing in F#. British singer-songwriter Dave Mason also plays in F#. Alex Lifeson of Rush used this tuning on the song "The Big Money". Tremonti uses a variation of this tuning where only the 6th string is raised to F# while the rest of the guitar stays in standard tuning, and then tuning down the whole guitar one and a half steps, on the song "Trust".G tuning also known as Terz tuning (sometimes spelled "Tierce", "Third", or "Tertz", all of which are acceptable) - G-C-F-A-D-G / G-C-F-B-D-GOne and one half steps up from standard.G/A tuning - G-C-F-B-D-G / A-D-G-B-E-ATwo full steps up from standard.A tuning - A-D-G-C-E-ATwo and one half steps up from standard. This is the standard tuning for the Lapstick travel guitar.A/B - A-D-G-C-F-A / B-E-A-D-F-BThree full steps up from standard. Double-dropped Similar to the dropped tunings, except that both the 1st and 6th strings are dropped one full step.Double Drop D - D-A-D-G-B-DStandard tuning but with the 1st and 6th strings dropped one full step. Favored by Neil Young. Has also been used by Lamb of God on some of their earlier songs. America used a variation for "Horse with No Name" in which the 5th string is also dropped, to E.