Hi everybody! This is Mike Deiure from Rock Guitar Power, and in this video, I am going to show you how to tune your guitar to Drop C. okay, so Drop C is very similar to Drop D tuning only lower. What I am going to do is first tune all my strings down a whole step and then tune the big E string down to a C.
So we are going to start out and we are going to do this with a tuner. I definitely recommend using a tuner for Drop C because the pitches are a lot lower and they are going to have a lot more tendency to shift, you want to double check yourself. I also recommend using a chromatic tuner, I like this Korg CA30 because it's small and easy to use but more importantly its chromatic meaning that it tells you what note you are actually playing. The other type of tuner would be one where just has the six notes and it tells you whether to tune higher or lower to get to each note. You are going to have some troubles with that because it's not going to probably detect that your E string is going way down to a C, and it's going to be harder to tune that way. So get a chromatic tuner if you can.
So what I am going to do is start off by tuning all my strings down a half step. So we will start with the little E string and I am going to tune it down to a D and I am going to give you guys the reference pitches when I am done here. I am just going to go ahead and tune them all down and then we will see where we are at.
Now the B string is going down to A, now the G string down to F, the D string down to a C, the A string down a G, and the E string down to a D. We are going to drop this lower but for now we are just make it a D. Okay, good. So now those are generally where they need to be. Before I finalize them, what I am going to do is give each string a little tug like this, okay. The reason why is because when I am tune strings really low, the tension has a hard time setting itself back up where it does not move. So by giving this little tug, it helps, kind of, let the string settle and stay in tune a little bit better.
Now after I do that, I am going to go ahead and tune it one more time. You will probably notice that most of them are little sharp, and that's pretty standard when you release the tension from a string for it to go a little bit higher again. So I am just double checking it one more time, good. Okay, so now we are at a tuning where all our strings are down a whole step. Okay, so we definitely have a lower sound but we are still in a standard type tuning.
Now all we need to do to make this Drop C is tune our big string down a whole step. So just like we did with Drop D, we are going to do this by ear by hitting the big string and then the open D string and then D tuning until they sound the same. Okay, good. So you can hear that both pitches are even and they sound the same. And so now that gives us Drop C tuning. Alright, I am going to switch on to some distortion here to get a good heavy sound, and now when I am playing, you can see that I get that really low heavy sound.
So because we are in Drop C, playing a power chord is just like in Drop D, we just lay our first finger flat and we are good to go. Alright, good! So that's Drop C tuning. It's definitely easy to do on anything with a fix bridge. This type of tuning can be done on Floyd Rose guitar as they are floating tremolo but the process for doing that is a little bit different, so we will be on look out for video to show you how to do that.
Basically what you got to do is go to the back of the guitar, take off your back plate and reset the springs to get the tension right. But as I said, we will show you that in another video. So now just have fun, rock out, and we will see you soon.
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