Course (music)

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A course is a pair of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and usually plucked together as if a single string, in musical instruments such as:

• 12-string guitar (and some of the other guitars and bass guitars with many strings)
• lute
• mandolin
• Saz
• Springtime, a seven string guitar with three coursed strings
• vihuela

[edit] Course tuning in rock music

The American Noise band Sonic Youth is famous for using alternate tunings on their instruments which are mainly double or triple courses, see Sonic Youth's alternate tunings.

[edit] See also

• Drone (music)