Intro to Dropped-D Tuning

from: Alternate Tunings Fingerstyle Guitar with Doug Young

This lesson is part of the course Alternate Tunings Fingerstyle Guitar with Doug Young.

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Alternate tunings can create beautiful guitar sounds that are impossible in standard tuning, and make some things easier to play. You’ll learn to play fingerstyle melodies in a variety of popular alternate tunings, including favorites like dropped D, DADGAD, and open G, as well as more unusual tunings.

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Intro to Dropped-D Tuning

The first alternate tuning you’ll learn is probably the most common, and just involves tuning the low E string down to D. Doug talks about some of the advantages of playing in dropped-D tuning and shows you how to get into dropped-D tuning.

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