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Guitar tuning

7-String Drop A Tuning

Seven-string drop A lowers the seventh string from B to A for low one-finger power chords while keeping the upper six strings in standard tuning.

Notes low to high
AEADGBE
Strings
7
Default frets
24
Open pitch range
A1 to E4
24-fret pitch range
A1 to E6
Also called
AEADGBE

Common uses

Open this tuning in the fretboard tool

Start with 7-string drop a tuning loaded, then adjust root, scale, fret count, labels, colors, and orientation.

Open in interactive fretboard
A Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale low-register riff and lead vocabulary A Minor Blues Guitar Scale heavier blues and rock phrasing A Natural Minor (Aeolian) Guitar Scale minor-key extended-range reference A Phrygian Guitar Scale dark low-root color for extended-range riffs

Scale diagrams in this tuning

A Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale 7-String Drop A Tuning A Minor Blues Guitar Scale 7-String Drop A Tuning A Natural Minor (Aeolian) Guitar Scale 7-String Drop A Tuning A Phrygian Guitar Scale 7-String Drop A Tuning
A Minor Guitar Arpeggio low-register minor-triad outline A Minor 7 Guitar Arpeggio minor seventh vocabulary across the extra strings A Diminished Guitar Arpeggio flat-fifth color in the lower register A Minor 7 Flat 5 Guitar Arpeggio half-diminished color across the extra strings

Arpeggio diagrams in this tuning

A Minor Guitar Arpeggio 7-String Drop A Tuning A Minor 7 Guitar Arpeggio 7-String Drop A Tuning A Diminished Guitar Arpeggio 7-String Drop A Tuning A Minor 7 Flat 5 Guitar Arpeggio 7-String Drop A Tuning