This 8-string tuning is a split tuning with descending fourths and ascending fifths like the interior strings of a 10-string Stick in Matched Reciprocal™ tuning. This tuning opens up new scale positions by creating more space between the hands for familiar right-hand scales, thus enabling a strong new scale position when the hands are close together. Because the melody strings are a whole step lower than the Interior 8-String Classic™ tuning, the lettered melody notes match in stacked relationship with the bass on any given fret, descending in 4ths as the bass ascends in 5ths.

Melody
1. G
2. D (-4th)
3. A (-4th)
4. E (-4th)

Bass
5. C
6. G (+5th)
7. D (+5th)
8. A (+5th)