Drop D help please!

[smilexelectric]

I have searched google and tryed tuning it the way they say it but it doesn't seem right.

Please help

Josh

 

[Zavut]

If you have a digital tuner this should be a piece of cake. The low E string is tuned down a whole step, to D. Fret the D on the A string (5th fret) to get the sound if you don't have a tuner.

 

[Raffft]

Lightly tap the metal part of the 12th fret of the low-E string. This will ring out a bell-type sound (harmonic, in case you don't know) that you can use to tune to your d-string.

 

[Vital Remains]

tune the first srting down to where it is in the same key as the third string but is an octave lower

e
b
g
d
a
d

 

[Erik]

Guh

What I find to be the quickest way is to play your E string at the 7th fret and open A string then tune down E string until you get the same note

 

[Servio_Abbas_Bellum]

BUY A TUNER!!!

 

[ranma187]

i just tune it to the high d string

 

[Servio_Abbas_Bellum]

i just tune it to the high d string

Your 4'th string? Why the hell would you do that?

 

[ranma187]

it works for me! i tune it an octave lower of course. i tune the low E to the D until the sound doesn't waver any more.

 

[chris-o-fer]

Here's an easy way:
1. BAR (place your finger) across fret 2 on E and fret 2 on A.
2. Strum
3. Tune your low E lower until the sound is the same on both 2nd frets (no waves)

 

[Servio_Abbas_Bellum]

it works for me! i tune it an octave lower of course. i tune the low E to the D until the sound doesn't waver any more.

Ah. Muy intersante. I thought you just meant you tuned it and played it to the high D string. Silly me.

 

[Erik]

Here's an easy way:
1. BAR (place your finger) across fret 2 on E and fret 2 on A.
2. Strum
3. Tune your low E lower until the sound is the same on both 2nd frets (no waves)

Uh, no, that will turn out wrong. You don't want "the same sound" as in the same note. The A string should obviously be a 5th higher than the E, that's the entire point of using drop D tuning. My way of using open A string and 7th fret on E string means you will tune to the same note.

 

[chris-o-fer]

ok, my bad that came across wrong, not the same sound, but a 'clean' sound

 

[BlackMetalTyrant]

just tune in D standard, drop D is for trendy fucks.

 

[ranma187]

I disagree there's probly metal bands you know that play drop d and they are good bands. hell, some use 7 string guitars.

 

[Erik]

just tune in D standard, drop D is for trendy fucks.

I really fail to see how using a different tuning could make the music any more trendy

I mean sure it makes it easier to play mindless chugga riffs but I've written some songs in drop D (because they used a lot of stuff in the key of D minor or so and it made it much easier) that I doubt you would find anywhere close to "trendy"

 

[Intoxicator]

Guh

What I find to be the quickest way is to play your E string at the 7th fret and open A string then tune down E string until you get the same note

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[Aeturnus]

I prefer full D tuning over drop D. Never been a fan of 1 fingered chord progressions and besides, if you have the fingers, why not use them?

 

[Kenneth R.]

just tune in D standard, drop D is for trendy fucks.

how is that any different?

in any case-

1. buy a tuner.
2. tune the low E down to D so it's an octave from the D string.