Baritone Electric Guitars

A baritone 6-string electric guitar is an electric guitar with a longer scale length and heavier strings—tuned like a standard guitar, but down. They’re known as an extended range instrument and are famous for creating a low, full sound.

The most common baritone electric guitar tuning is down a perfect fourth: B-E-A-D-F#-B. Many baritone electric guitar strings are sold with that tuning in mind. However, baritone guitar can be tuned down however you want, including perfect fifths (A-D-G-C-E-A), major thirds (C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C) open A (A-E-A-E-A-C#), or even Half-Nashville tuning (B-E-A-D F#-B, where the A and D are an octave higher than standard baritone tuning).

A few famous baritone electric guitar players include Duane Eddy, Brian Wilson, Jimmie Rodgers, John Petrucci, Alex Turner, Dave Matthews, Glen Campbell, Claudio Sanchez, Emma Ruth Rundle, Ani DiFranco, and more.

When compared to standard six-string electric guitars, baritone electric guitars have a longer scale length and are tuned lower than a standard electric guitar. Other than that, they’re very similar instruments, and any guitarist could easily pick up a baritone electric guitar and feel comfortable playing it.

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