“I got my first guitar for Christmas at the age of 11. I had a book that said, ‘Tune your low string wherever it sounds good…’”: How Stanley Jordan accidentally stumbled upon the tuning that defined his genius two-hand tapping approach

Stanley Jordan .

Stanley Jordan is one of the guitar world's foremost two-hand tapping geniuses, having developed a unique style that all centres around an unorthodox tuning system that lets him tap into some otherworldly voicings. And, as it happens, he stumbled upon that system by accident.

Unlike Jacob Collier, who’s been turning heads with his five-string guitar that’s tuned in a symmetrical fifths system, jazz juggernaut Jordan opts for fourths. And not because it provided a genius solution to a problem. Not initially, at least.