Drop D Tuning for Metal Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Gary Schutt. I am going to talk to you today about Drop-D tuning. If you have a standard tune guitar like this one, Drop-D tuning is just that. You take your bottom string which is your E and you tune it down a whole step to a D. It is always best to tune under pitch and bring it up to keep the string tight. Now we have a Drop-D guitar. Everything is tuned normal except your bottom string is a D. This makes rock chords bar chords very easy to play because you can play with one finger. Here are some examples of stuff you can do with that. Another easier way to Drop-D tune is you have a tremolo like this one that fits so that it is mounted flat on the body so that you cannot do any pull-ups; you can only push down on it and you get a little device called a D-tuner. What this does is if you have a locking tremolo system, it allows you to go instantly from an E to a D. Back up, with little or no ease. So if you are playing one song and you have to go to a D song, step that down and you are ready to go. "