Drilling Drop D

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Rock

Excerpt: With this tutorial, I hope to unlock any misconceptions you might have about "drop D tuning". Essentially, drop D tuning is a way to get extended low range. Lets begin by tuning our guitar to drop D. The simplest way to tune to drop D is to strike the low E string along with the D string (4th) simultaneously, while lowering the tuning of the E string until...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Rhythm Style: Rock

Excerpt: Chords So, as mentioned in the introduction, 5 (power) chords become drastically simpler when tuned to drop D. If you think about it, a power chord in standard tuning contains two notes; any note on the low E string plus its fifth, which is usually down a string and up two frets. Now that our low E string is tuned down a full step, we compensate by bringing...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Scales When playing through those familiar old scales, keep a couple things in mind: Everything you would've played on the low E string shifts up two frets. Also, if you visualize the scale from a different perspective, any notes that fall on the regular D string, are fretted in the exact same places on the low D string. Fifth fret D = 5th fret low D, etc. ...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: I'll leave you with some riffs which I've devised to help instill some of these concepts into your repetoire. Keep an eye out for D string symmetry, it may just help you along! Until next time, have fun and keep rockin'!

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