[7stringwannab]

hello, im just starting out playing the guitar so sorry for my noobletness.

i have a jackson 6 string and i tune it with my electronic tuner, now i ALWAYS keep the tuning at standard and have never ventured into detuning or drop tunings.

with that said how do i go about tuning down to this: Droped D down a whole step. High to low: D,A,F,C,G,C?

im trying to learn to play digital bath from the deftones...and all the tabs on the net call for this tuning.

do i setup my tuner and do it like i usuallly do or do i use the hold down x fret and hit the sting to match up the sound for the next string?

help a brotha out

[ibzrg1570]

Just drop every string down a whole step except the low E, which you drop down two whole steps. If you have a chromatic tuner you don't need to change the settings, but if you have a tuner that only has the 6 standard notes then you'll have to tune the F and C to the other strings or fret them while tuning.

Oh yea and welcome to the board!

[7stringwannab]

thanks, yea all i have is a run of the mill guitar tuner that i use, im not familiar on detuning and stuff yet as i am trying to learn ALL cords and stuff first.

what do you mean by tune down a step? what are you refering as a step? afret? sorry again for my ignorance when it comes to this kinda stuff

[D-EJ915]

If you have that silver korg tuner hit the flat thing 2 times for "1 step" (shows 2 flats) and 4 times for "2 steps" (shows 4 flats)

[ibzrg1570]

A whole step is the same as two frets on the board. So if you tune down a whole step, you need to fret the string at the second fret to get the same pitch as before. Basically just turn your tuners until the electronic tuner reads you high E as a D, your B as an A, etc.

Then again, if your still learning the basics, I think you should worry about this stuff later. Cowboy chords (basic open chords) are the way to go.

BTW Is this your first experience with playing an instrument? Not to be rude or anything, but I know it can be tough at first, just stick with it. If you can play the piano, it makes learning guitar a lot easier too.

[7stringwannab]

Originally Posted by ibzrg1570

A whole step is the same as two frets on the board. So if you tune down a whole step, you need to fret the string at the second fret to get the same pitch as before. Basically just turn your tuners until the electronic tuner reads you high E as a D, your B as an A, etc.

Then again, if your still learning the basics, I think you should worry about this stuff later. Cowboy chords (basic open chords) are the way to go.

BTW Is this your first experience with playing an instrument? Not to be rude or anything, but I know it can be tough at first, just stick with it. If you can play the piano, it makes learning guitar a lot easier too.

actually to be hohnest no....i took lessons when i was younger, and then in high school took guitar class. Then the year i gradualted my guitar and amps were stolen form my house. at that time i droped in and never picked it up adter that untile last week, so i need to reprogram my brain. Alot of the stuff have came back, like songs i could play and stuff but alot of the technical stuff is gone.

I now own 2 jackson electrics and a ep acoustic, i now have what my wife calls a buyng addiction (refering to my guitars). And what brought me here is i actually met Brian "head" welsh from korn, i met him at a cook out beleave it or not. i have friend that has this friend that invited us to it so we went and hot damn he was there, and he had a 7 string acoustic with him. The sound of that guitar was simply amazing.

i am searching now for an Ibanez acoustic 7, and am about to order the k7 aswell.

anyhow now i am rambling..lol

oh and this is the tuner i have

http://www.music123.com/Product/Prod...er#custReviews

[Naren]

Well, you seem to be really really new to guitar, so I would suggest to keep the guitar tuned to standard until you start to get really familiar with that tuning. I don't think it'd be a good idea to suddenly tune to drop C at this stage.

But, if you really want to tune it to drop C (CGCFAD), here is how you do it. Most basic non-chromatic tuners have a button you can push that is labeled "b" (a flat symbol). This would take your guitar down a half step (from E to Eb, from A to Ab, from D to Db, from G to Gb, from B to Bb, and from E to Eb). On my BOSS tuner, you can push the "b" button twice, which gets you a "bb" (double flatted symbol). This would take your guitar down a whole step (from E to D, from A to G, from D to C, from G to F, from B to A, from E to D - thus DGCFAD). So, tune your guitar to that and the only string you still have to tune is that low D to a C (which would make it 2 steps below standard). There are various ways to do this. You could tune your low D to the 5th fret of the G string (the string that was your A string in standard) because the 5th fret of the G string is a "C" or you could switch to 5-string bass tuning and tune your low D according to the high C on a 5-string bass. I always tune my sevenstring with my bass tuner because the normal tuner doesn't pick up the low B correctly.

If this seems hard, then I recommend not changing the tuning and getting familiar with the strings, chords, intervals, etc.

Good luck with the guitar!

[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by Naren

So, tune your guitar to that and the only string you still have to tune is that low D to a C (which would make it 2 steps below standard). There are various ways to do this. You could tune your low D to the 5th fret of the G string (the string that was your A string in standard) because the 5th fret of the G string is a "C" or you could switch to 5-string bass tuning and tune your low D according to the high C on a 5-string bass.

He could just tune his 7th fret on his 6th string to match the open 5th string.

[Naren]

He could do that, but I don't like to. Since I'm changing the string's tuning, I prefer to only use the string open while tuning.

[Metal Ken]

yeah,but its easier, technically speaking, to match two tones that are identical than two tones that are an octave apart.