Rule of thirds which the two other thirds should go for the sky and aerial perspectives. This rule would likewise apply in breaking a length of wall, or any other too great continuation of line that it may be found necessary to break by crossing or hiding it with some other object : In short, in applying this invention, generally speaking, or to any other case, whether of light, shade, form, or color, I have found the ratio of about two thirds to one third, or of one to two, a much better and more harmonizing proportion, than the precise formal "half", the
Major thirds tuning also facilitate advanced guitarists' improvisation, precisely the aim of jazz guitarist Ralph Patt when he began popularizing major-thirds tuning between 1963 and 1964. In standard tuning, the successive open-strings mix two types of intervals, four perfect-fourths and the major third between the G and B strings: Only major thirds occur as open-string intervals for major-thirds tuning, which is also called ""major-third" tuning", ""all-thirds" tuning", and ""M3" tuning". A popular M3 tuning has the open strings in which the low G is a major third above the low E of standard tuning. Consequently, a seventh string for the low E is