Often the key will be considered by the players as if played in standard tuning. This can be combined with other tuning techniques such as dropped D tuning and makes no difference to fingering. This tuning is achieved when all the strings are flattened by a half step. As with the Dropped B tuning, heavy gauge strings are required, and even minor modifications to some guitars. Dropped A:Ī very low drop tuning used in metal and death metal bands.
Heavier gauge strings are required for this tuning, which may also require widening the string grooves in the nut of the guitar as well as re-adjusting the tension in the neck. It has also become popular with doom metal/post-metal bands. This tuning is very popular with alternative metal/post-grunge bands. This tuning is the same as dropped D and C, but lowered from dropped C an additional semitone, or half step. Tuning a standard, non-baritone guitar any lower than this is difficult. This tuning is frequently used by hardcore and metalcore bands as well to achieve a lower sound. This gives the guitar a very low and heavy sound, and usually requires extra-thick strings to maintain tension. However, the tuning technically known as “Dropped D tuned down one whole step” is commonly referred to as “Dropped C” tuning, as very few people drop only the sixth string. Technically a “drop C” tuning would be C-A-D-G-B-E’. This tuning is the same as dropped D, but each string is lowered an additional whole step, or two semitones. Some guitarists choose to use a capo on the second fret with this tuning so that they can retain the ease of playing power chords without the darker sound created by the D tuning. It is also used extensively in classical guitar music and transcriptions since it allows open strings to sound the tonic and dominant as part of the bassline in the keys of D and D minor.
It allows power chords (also known as bare fifth chords) to be played with a single finger on the lowest three strings. This tuning is not only used by metal and rock bands, but also folk musicians.
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