Music Theory Tools

Guitar tuning

D Standard Tuning

D standard lowers all six strings by a whole step and keeps standard-tuning intervals intact.

Notes low to high
DGCFAD
Strings
6
Default frets
24
Open pitch range
D2 to D4
24-fret pitch range
D2 to D6
Also called
Whole-Step Down, DGCFAD

Common uses

Open this tuning in the fretboard tool

Start with d standard tuning loaded, then adjust root, scale, fret count, labels, colors, and orientation.

Open in interactive fretboard
D Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale core scale for this tuning's low-string root D Minor Blues Guitar Scale blues and rock vocabulary around the low-string root D Natural Minor (Aeolian) Guitar Scale full minor-key reference pattern D Major (Ionian) Guitar Scale major-scale reference pattern

Scale diagrams in this tuning

D Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale D Standard Tuning D Minor Blues Guitar Scale D Standard Tuning D Natural Minor (Aeolian) Guitar Scale D Standard Tuning D Major (Ionian) Guitar Scale D Standard Tuning
D Minor Guitar Arpeggio core minor-triad outline around the tuning root D Minor 7 Guitar Arpeggio minor seventh vocabulary around the tuning root D Major Guitar Arpeggio major-triad reference around the tuning root D Dominant 7 Guitar Arpeggio dominant seventh reference around the tuning root

Arpeggio diagrams in this tuning

D Minor Guitar Arpeggio D Standard Tuning D Minor 7 Guitar Arpeggio D Standard Tuning D Major Guitar Arpeggio D Standard Tuning D Dominant 7 Guitar Arpeggio D Standard Tuning