How to Tune Your Guitar Down a Whole Step

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Part of the video series: Guitar Tuning

Summary: In order to tune a guitar down a whole step, simply tune the low E to a D, the A to a G, the D to a C, the G to an F, the B to an A and the high E down to a D. Find out how to tune a guitar with help from a professional guitarist in this free video on tuning a guitar down a whole step.

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By Sandy Poltarack
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Sandy Poltarack is a professional guitarist who is also an adjunct professor at Miami-Dade College, Wolfson, North and Kendall campuses in Miami, Fla. Poltarack also teaches at his...read more

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"Hi, this is Sandy Poltarack and I'm here on behalf of gladesguitars.com. In today's clip, we're going to be learning how to tune down a whole step. So remember that the normal tuning is E, A, D, G, B and E. And we're going to we're going to take all of those things down a whole step. And on this guitar, this beautiful Collins guitar, I'm sure it'll sound beautiful. Here's the normal E, I'm going to take the down to D. I'm using the tuner here to help me out, make sure that I get close to the right tune. And there's the D. Next I have to take the A down to G. That sounds pretty good, let's see...tighten it up a bit. O.k., the next is to take the D down to C. Next is to take the G down to F. And again I'm using the tuner to give me a visual of what I've done. And now I'm just readjusting, slightly. Next is, let's see we did the G now we're going to go to the B string and change the B string and change that to an A. Now we're going to take the E and we're going to go down to D. And I'm going to use the tuner to help me out, get some fine tuning. That's it, thanks a lot. This is Sandy Poltarack."