How Would You Go About....

[Guest Doomsault]

Tuning a guitar to drop D tuning? I know it's simple and a friend of mine told me but I forgot.

[Guest mesepher]

Low E gets tuned to D

[Guest Incandenza]

Drop D? Are you starting a nü-metal band or something?

[Guest godthedog]

ah, yes...the days of early korn and their drop d tuning and seven-string guitars.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Hey, nothing wrong with drop D. Some Doors tunes, and every Tool song is in drop D.

 

You just drop your low E string a whole step. You can either tune it to your D (4th string) or else play the 7th fret on your low E and tune it to your A sting. (5th string) Easy as pie.

[Guest saturnmark4life]

drop d is pretty cool, even works for real music like tool and soundgarden, yeah. I'm damned if i can find a use for my 5-string bass tho, think i'll trade it for a jazz. Claypool i ain't. And thankfully nu metal i ain't either.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

5 strings are for suckers.

[Guest redbaron51]

and what about 6 strings?

 

oh and if you lucky, some guitars have a D-tuner on them

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

6 strings have more of a point than 5-strings. Unless you play bass with a pic, then you should have your fingers mashed with a hammer.

[Guest Doomsault]

Thanks, and no I'm not starting a nu metal band, because then I would be no-talent shit-hole. *cough*almost everyband from 95 to 02*cough*

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Ok, good, I wouldn't want to be supporting nu metal. That would just make me feel...dirty.