From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate
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Drop D tuning
From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate
Drop D tuning
- Alright, so now let's move into drop tunings. We're going to go to drop D. So all you have to do is tune your thickest E string down a whole step. I already did that to my guitar, I'm going to play the note so you can match it. Here we have D. And the rest of the strings are in standard. A, D, G, B, and E. Now this is one of the easier tunings to get into, all you really have to do is just when you're in E, just try to match the thickest E string to the open D string, just an octave lower, so you can hear it, sort of match that pitch. So you can get into this tuning relatively quickly. Let's check out some new chord forms and drop D. So first of all, you can play D, D major now, hitting all the strings. And C. G is played a little bit differently. As is E major. And a lot of these chord forms that you would normally play two frets lower, you just have to move them up two frets higher, A major is the same. As is B flat major. For any chord forms that don't even have that string…
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