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Points: 1177 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2006 at 15:02
Originally posted by conjunktionman conjunktionman wrote:

I use drop D in all our music. I just like that lower couple of notes on the bass.

When learning anything, I use standard tuning and transpose it later.

Playin a six string bass with the lower B is great fun too. I dont own one personally but get use of it.

I know that in Drop-D (DADGBE) tuning, it becomes easier to play power-chords.  Is there a way to play drop-d power chords in regular tuning (EADGBE)?

 
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I use drop D in all our music. I just like that lower couple of notes on the bass.

When learning anything, I use standard tuning and transpose it later.

Playin a six string bass with the lower B is great fun too. I dont own one personally but get use of it.

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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2006 at 00:11
I don't mind tuning down (apart from it being irritating going from piece to piece), but actual drop tuning upsets the whole relationship of fourths between strings, and I don't think well enough to work properly using it
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i was all aginst drop tuning, and origionaly considered it the easy way out (a single finger for powerchords? get outa here!) but, of late have come to accept this is not so. i am now not bothered. I thought, hey! if it sounds good, whats the problem?

 
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Standard tuning all the way, though I find I like some drop-tuned stuff, and the songs I write are tuned down one-half step.

That said, though, I don't see the point in C# F B E G# C#, or C G C F A D or stuff like that. Doing that just muddies up the sound, IMO. Which is why I don't like a lot of modern pop and LOATHED "grunge" like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.
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i like standard also the standerd tuning.  Occasionally i do drop to D to play some slide.  it has a really cool sound playing chords with drop D with a slide.
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Standard EADGBE tuning!

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In response to WillieThePimp: I think that playing massively downtuned guitars can make sense ... but it becomes difficult to write guitar riffs which don't conflict with the bass lines. Of course you can also downtune the bass, but then you get the problem that you reach frequencies which are barely audible, and damage speakers - IF the hifi system can amplify them at all.
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I play in standard tuning only. If I had a 7 string guitar, I would probably play it in "drop-A" - tuning ... that would be really cool.

I really like the sound of downtuned guitars, but I wouldn't want to mess with the tuning - I like to know where notes are on the fretboard, no need to make it any more complicated.

Having said that, maybe a massively downtuned baritone guitar would be nice ... but I figure that that would be a bass.

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Haha, I am pretty much the same way, except for dropping down to D in some instances. I am usually coaxed into doing it because many of the local groups that i've played with tune their guitars to D.

I think that standard tuning can be just as heavy without having to tune down. Bands like Opeth have composed most of their songs (albeit their latest album),  in standard tuning and are not any less heavier for doing so. This and the fact that every instrument is contributing to their heaviness and they do not have to rely on tuning down their guitars to achieve it.

So this thread really should have been do you think it is necessary to tune guitars down in order to achieve a certain heaviness, or can it be down with standard tuning?
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Which do you prefer when playing heavy material? Half step down, Drop D, A, etc? What is your preference.

Being a bass player I really do not enjoy tuning down lower than D.
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