How to Tune a Guitar to Drop D | Guitar Lessons

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Knowing how to tune your guitar is an important part of being a guitar player. In this video, you'll learn how to tune a guitar to Drop D, an alternate method of tuning that can make the guitar sound more exotic. It's one of the easiest ways to tune a guitar.

Okay, so what we're talking about are alternate tunings. And uh, lots of different groups use alternate tunings. It can make the guitar more exotic sounding. Some groups like Led Zeppelin, Rage Against the Machine, uh Muse, some bluegrass artists, folk music, country music, the list is endless, right? One tuning they could use, it's very simple to do, is called a drop D tuning. And all I'm doing is I'm dropping the 6th string down to the note D, right? So how do I do that? Well I already have a D on the guitar. So here I have a 4th string D, right? And so I'm trying to match that note, but, but it's gonna be down, right? So, there you go. Right so, so maybe you're playing some heavy metal, right, that it, that requires, right some really heavy bottom end, right? Or maybe you just want a more exotic sound on the guitar. Right here's, here's D, a little more resonant because now I have a D as my lowest note, you know? And that's how you can make a drop D tuning.

[ElephantGlass]

@101lildrummerboy match the open 3rd string with 6th string by going down. its one of the easiest tunings

[Mister_B_]

I don't hear how the down-tuned E sounded anything like the open D.

[WFIST]

so could you tell me what the tuning is called when The guitar is in D and you drop down? Is that called drop C?

[joeylombardo]

me too i did this for nirvana heart shaped box :D

[BrotherTimothyClark]

thanks man. great video. i thought that was how it was done, someone told me differently though. thanks for clarifying that up for me.

[DronkeyGaming]

@TheWOLFLORE im using this for afterlife by avenged sevenfold

[fasondzie]

They said I would learn to play guitar easily because I play violin. Well guess what, they lied.

[tylermorin]

ik VH tunes to Drop d on a few albums but usally if u have floyd rose u just have to buy and EvH D tuna but when i tine to drope d with the d tuna it dosent sound right is there a certain tune u have to be at to get to the drop d cuz im in e flat when i tune down to drop d

[tylermorin]

videos come first before u try to tune it a different way man but hey who hasnt snapped a string i snapped it trying to tune like that

[XxDIAZLIFExX]

Hahaha I laughed when he said "You can play heavy metal" and played on clean

[Mashuga]

@TheWOLFLORE thats exactly what im doing it for xD

[scifregizmoguy]

wait ha ha there is only 5 (6) coments!