Among alternative tunings for guitar, each augmented-fourths tuning is a regular tuning in which the musical intervals between successive open-string notes are each augmented fourths. Because augmented fourths are alternatively called "tritones" or "diminished fifths", augmented-fourths tuning is also called tritone tuning or diminished-fifths tuning.
The standard guitar-tuning
interjects exactly one major third amid four perfect fourths for the intervals between its successive open strings. In contrast, the augmented fourths tunings
have only augmented-fourths intervals.