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Here is a guide for guitar tunings. Just a quick note is that all tunings when spelled out like EADGBE go from the 6th string (or lowest string) to the 1st string (or highest string). Also, for the assistance in explanation of how to tune without a tuner, I?ll give you the instructions on how to tune from Standard E or EADGBE to the desired tuning. And another thing, I will use flats and not sharps, as most tuners are set up to read a note as flat and not sharp. I also assume that you know the numbers of the strings, and which ones they are, as it is easier to refer to the number when talking of tunings, instead of the name, because your low E string could also be your F, Eb, D, Db, C, B... well... you get the picture. Before we begin, I'd like to cover why there are so many tunings, why don't we just stick to one. I mean, what is so special about making your guitar dropped lower or, being able to hit one extra fret higher by giving it some extra tension. Well, it really has to do with the individual. Some do it, because they honestly want a song to sound in that key, some pitch-perfect people can tell that the vocals aren't perfectly in sync with their guitar, or they just really want to sound lower or higher. Or maybe, it's not any of that. For there are the other sort of tunings like open tunings, where people play it as if it's slide guitar, or they're really into blues they may tune their guitar accordingly. Standard Tunings Note: for standard tunings, in order to tune the guitar to itself, place your finger on the 5th fret of the 6th string, and play the 5th string, tune the guitar until both strings are in unison, then play the 5th fret on the 5th string with the 4th string and tune until the strings are in unison, then move up to the 4th string and play the 5th fret with the 3rd string and tune until they are in unison, then play the 4th fret on the 3rd string with the 2nd string, and tune until they are in unison, and then play the 5th fret on the 2nd string with the 1st string, and... you guessed it... tune until they are in unison. Standard E Standard Eb Standard D Standard F There are other Standard Tunings, but, if you read all this, I think you can use your own judgement to figure them out if necessary; however they are very unusual, and almost never used. Drop Tunings:Note: The purpose of a drop tuning is to allow a person to do power chords by just using a bar with their finger. The goal isn't so much to make it that much easier to do a power chord, but, to make it so that you can change power chords faster, for I don't care how fast you can slide your hand, it'll still go faster if you don't use that shape. To tune a Drop tuning, there are 2 ways to do it, the first way, which people usually will tell you to do, is to play the 6th and 4th (or E and D) strings together, until the 6th string is an octave below the 4th string. The way I usually do it, and is also a good way, is to use the 7th fret on the 6th string and tune it until it is in unison with the 5th string (much like people will tell you to do, in order to tune the guitar to itself). Drop D Drop Db Drop C Drop B Open Tunings Note: Open tunings have no specific way to tune them without a chromatic tuner, so... you know what... I REALLY don't want to try, if you have that much of a problem, go ahead and drop someone a line and they'll help you out into tuning your guitar into it. But, I've already spent an hour, and I don't want to spend 5 doing this. The purpose of open tunings, as far as I know is to allow you to make a chord in just a solid barre across all the strings. I'm not an open tuning user, I'm just here to explain how to get it, so, don't ask me much more than this about why open tunings are there. Though, they are necessary for slide guitar type things. Though the first few have a few things on string gauges, my computer's not wanting to work with me, and so, I'm just going to put in the notes for a lot of these. Also, many of these tunings aren't called open, but they're meant to be played open, so I include them in the set. Open E (major) Open E minor E 7/9 Open D (major) Open D minor D suspended D 6th D 6/9 D7 D7 sus4 Open C (major) C 6th C maj7 C maj7/9 C maj 7/11 Cryil C C 6/9 Open A (major) Open A minor Open G (major) Open G minor G 6th G Wahine G add11 Open F minor Open F (major) The, "I Mean Weird", Tunings! These are the tunings that no one really ever uses. And even some guitar elite have never heard of, hell, I didn't even know they existed until I started doing this and discovered them. Well, here they are. The Drone Tunings C 6th (Mauna Loa) Double Drop D High Strung E Power Chord 7-String Tunings Really, for those of you that have 7-strings, for open tunings, just copy another string in there as the bottom string. I'm only going to deal with the 2 common 7-string tunings. Standard E/B Drop A Comments (8)Subscribe to this comment's feedYew
To the top commenter- You dickhead. He said he was using flats not sharps to describe notes. You just wrote out exactly what he said for drop B but you used sharps. Dick.
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June 05, 2010
Slipknot
Mick thomson said that the whole iowa album is in drop A, and the tuning for it on a 6 string guitar is A E A D F# B (B tuning with a dropped A) And dude drop B is actually B F# B E G# C# ( C# tuning with a dropped B )
Mick thomsons string gauge for drop B is (D'addario strings) .011, .015, .018, .028, .038, .058 Mick thomsons string gauge for drop A is (D'addario strings) Cant find the site sorry but his thickets is .69 Jim uses the same except he uses Ernie Ball
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December 31, 2009
Nice one
This is what I've needed the whole time I've been playing guitar xD this must've taken time & effort, but time & effort well spent.
Btw Heretic Anthem by Slipknot is played in Drop A, but I only found that out earlier
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September 11, 2009
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