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Guitar tuning

8-String Drop E Tuning

Eight-string drop E lowers the eighth string to E for a drop-tuned relationship an octave below six-string drop E.

Notes low to high
EBEADGBE
Strings
8
Default frets
24
Open pitch range
E1 to E4
24-fret pitch range
E1 to E6
Also called
EBEADGBE

Common uses

Open this tuning in the fretboard tool

Start with 8-string drop e tuning loaded, then adjust root, scale, fret count, labels, colors, and orientation.

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

Scale diagrams in this tuning

E Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale 8-String Drop E Tuning E Minor Blues Guitar Scale 8-String Drop E Tuning E Natural Minor (Aeolian) Guitar Scale 8-String Drop E Tuning E Phrygian Guitar Scale 8-String Drop E Tuning
E Minor Guitar Arpeggio low-register minor-triad outline E Minor 7 Guitar Arpeggio minor seventh vocabulary across the extra strings E Diminished Guitar Arpeggio flat-fifth color in the lower register E Minor 7 Flat 5 Guitar Arpeggio half-diminished color across the extra strings

Arpeggio diagrams in this tuning

E Minor Guitar Arpeggio 8-String Drop E Tuning E Minor 7 Guitar Arpeggio 8-String Drop E Tuning E Diminished Guitar Arpeggio 8-String Drop E Tuning E Minor 7 Flat 5 Guitar Arpeggio 8-String Drop E Tuning