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Summary: Learn how to use drop B tuning in heavy metal guitar playing in this free video lesson.
Gary Schutt was born and raised in Monticello, NY, and was taught how to play drums by his father. He later learned to play guitar. Gary attended Berklee College of Music. He graduated...read more
"Hi, my name is Gary Schutt. We are talking about heavy metal guitar. Today we are talking about drop-B guitars. A drop-B Guitar is a regular six string with a heavy gage set of strings on it, tuned down to B. What you need to do is get yourself some really thick and heavy gage string like 13 through 56 or a 7 string set and just not use the 9. Once you have your strings on, you tune everything down to perfect fourths. So both of your outer strings will be B’s and they will have the same lowness and chunkiness as a 7 string without the high E string. So those of you like me get lost on a 7 string this is a good way to play similar style the same low B chunkiness without the confusion of an extra string involved. You can play your normal 6 string chords. They will just sound much different. So you don’t have to spend hours and hours thinking about how you are going to record because you have an extra string on there and what if I take this chord and how does this work with an extra string. There is just a lot less involved and you can have so much more fun right off the back. It makes experimenting a lot more fun because you are already familiar with the 6 strings. You just have a completely different sound. "
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Comments
berserker1 said
on 8/2/2008 Does anyone have an example of "how" to tune your guitar to this tuning? I have heavy gauge strings on my guitar, but I don't know how to set my tuner to tune this way. Is there a "string by string" example anywhere...? Thanks!
evuser8624 said
on 8/2/2008 Good lesson but I think you've got your terminology wrong. I sounds like you're talking about baritone tuning(standard E tuned down 2 1/2 steps), B-E-A-D-F#-B. Drop B tuning is drop D tuned down 1 1/2 steps, or if you prefer, standard E tuning tuned down 1 1/2 steps to standard C#, then low C# tuned down one full step to B, B-F#-B-E-G#-C#
jtr410 said
on 8/2/2008 Lol, it took me less than 20 minutes to answer my own -- question...Why would I need to tune the last string back up??? I can already play chords like normal! The strings are laid out from thickest to thinnest B-E-A-D-G-B!
jtr410 said
on 8/2/2008 I just got a new guitar (Gibson Les Paul BFG) and I've never tuned down this low before on previous guitars, so I've no clue what I'm doin'. I plan on taking it up to Guitar Center and having them set it up. But, once it is set up will it hurt the guitar to tune the 6th string back up a whole step?
patrick16 said
on 8/2/2008 hey gary.....my name is patrick im a BEGINNER to the max.... and im just wonderin wat string should i get in order 2 make a drop b....???? i still dont get i wat u mean by 13 or 56....