How to Tune Your Guitar To Double Drop D Tuning (Guitar Lesson ES-022)

In this guitar lesson I'll show you how to tune your guitar to Double Drop D Tuning, a favourite for acoustic players, lots of fun to experiment with.

Taught by Justin Sandercoe.

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Hi, How you doing? Justin here,
today I'm going to show you-

how to get you guitar into Double Drop D tuning little bit-

more common on the acoustic guitar, but works on electric guitar great as well,

very very simple tuning again, double drop D means that

we are tuning the two outside strings- the 1st string and the 6th string

down to a D, they are normally at E, so, both strings are gonna go

down 1 tone, now to do that we're gonna play the

open 4th string and play the 6th string

and tune it down until its an octave lower okay? now,

if you're struggling or you wanna get a little bit more accurate you can use the 12th fret

of the thickest string will put that string up an octave

so its the same as the open 4th string

its a little easier to hear

okay, now we're gonna tune the thinnest string down a tone

as well, so we do that again, open 4th string

gradually tuned down

as usual we try and tune up to a note, so now just tune down to it

tune a little bit lower than you know that it should be back up

again you can use an octave at the 12th fret of the fourth string

that's pretty good, Okay now,

nearly every time you do an open tuning you get a need to play

a little bit and do a little bit tweaky, its just a part of the way it is

so,

what you wanna do for a double drop D is play regular D chord, lift-off

your second finger

here we go just had turn up that thinnest string up just a tiny bit

there you have it

that would be a double drop D tuning, very common in acoustic stuff, really really nice

its kind of common one for the fingerstyle and percussive

guitar and all that sort of stuff

I hope you really enjoy whatever song it is that you're going to learn

using double drop D

take care!!