How to Tune Your Guitar to C Standard

Video Transcript

"Hi everybody, this is Jake Sharp again, Sharp Guitar Works. I am just going to real quickly we're switching over to electric. We're going to show you a real quick drop tuning C standard drop tuning. Right now we're in standard E guitar tuning and we're going to go to the tuner and drop quite a bit on each string, low E is going to go down to C. This is quite a change in tension on your guitar, so ideally you're going to want to go up to probably a couple gauge strings thicker when you go to this tuning. A string is going to go down to F. Your D string is going to go down to C also, an octave higher than the low string. Your G string is going to go down to F. The B string is going to go down to G. Your guitar will feel really different after you do this. I recommend you take it into a guitar repair expert like myself and pay me to do a set up for you and your high E is going to go down to C. That gives you three C's in this tuning which is one of the things that sort of contributes to the power of the sound. Then you're going to have to go back undoubtedly because that is all the way up to C sharp now because your neck is having its effect on the tuning. Once again the low string C, fifth string F, C on your fourth string, F on your third string. We're just going through and getting everything back in. You're going to have to go through all six strings at least twice to get these all in because the neck was going to change so drastically with this low tuning. This neck in particular. So we're now in C standard tuning. We are going to plug in really quickly very small amplifier. It doesn't give you the full effect of the power but here we are, what you'll end up playing a lot on the lower three strings, like so."