Guitar tuning
Drop D Tuning
Drop D lowers the sixth string to D while the other five strings stay in standard tuning.
- Notes low to high
- DADGBE
- Strings
- 6
- Default frets
- 24
- Open pitch range
- D2 to E4
- 24-fret pitch range
- D2 to E6
- Also called
- DADGBE
Common uses
- hard rock
- heavy music
- power chords
- fingerstyle
- modern rock
Open this tuning in the fretboard tool
Start with drop d tuning loaded, then adjust root, scale, fret count, labels, colors, and orientation.
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