Guitar Tuning Tips: Drop D

Video Transcript

"Hey, in this example, what I'm going to do is, again, is a clean Drop D riff, and what I'm going to do is a more melodic sound. And, something you could, another technique that I've used in my own songs I've written, and learned in other ones, was taking an open D and just playing a single note, and having chords played with the next, the adjacent string, in this case A, and you'll hear what I'm talking about with the drums here. What I did there, just a very simple riff over good grooving rock drum there. And pretty much, it's just making chords, nice major cord there with the D and F#. And the E, back to D, E. And you know, like this right here is very commonly used in different, like when you're using a drop tuning and creating more melodic clean segments, so to be going, and throwing little hammer ons like that. Not necessarily picking every note, but if you throw a nice little hammer on there, then you have a very nice, warm sound with the drop tuning."