Things You'll Need:
- Guitar tuner
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Step 1
Take your guitar pick or your finger and pluck the top string open. To pluck a string open means to pluck the string without pressing the string down on any of the wooden frets on the fingerboard. If your bass is tuned to standard, the tuner should read E for the top (thickest) string on the guitar.
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Step 2
Turn the tuning peg for the top string (located on the headstock), slowly loosening it as you're plucking it. You will notice the sound of the string getting lower and lower in pitch. Keep turning the peg and dropping the pitch of the string until the tuner reads C instead of E.
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Step 3
Tune the next string down--the A string--the same way, until the tuner reads G. Make sure you turn the pegs slowly. If you tune down to fast, you could break a string.
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Step 4
Pluck the D string and tune it down to C on your tuner. This string will have the same sound as the top string.
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Step 5
Tune the G string on your bass guitar down to F on your guitar tuner. Your bass guitar is now in the alternate tuning of Drop C.
