How to Play Guitar in Drop D Tuning

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mike Lais. On behalf of Expert Village, we are going to go over some guitar tuning techniques. Alright, now why would you be in Drop D tuning? Well, there's a few reasons. Number one, it makes your voicings a little bit different when you're going to play your chords. For example, if I were just to play a standard "E" chord, I would have done it like this, with the way we explained it before. But now that I have this note as a "D", I have to play the 2nd fret of that string in order to get the "E" chord. And you're going to want use this tuning also, is you're going to want to play, you would do it if you're going to be doing some rock stuff and you really want that low tone. If you're playing in the key of "D" it's usually good to use this so that you can have that low note and you can just have your fingerings just go in separate ways. For example, like if I was playing in "D" here, I have that "F" right there right?"