Intro to drop D tuning
Tutorial: Part 2
Danny Grady: So I am hitting the bottom three strings open, and bam, I have a power chord; I have a Root, a Fifth, and an Octave, that simple. Just the sixth, the fifth, and the fourth string.
Then I am going to take my first finger and bar here on the fourth fret across the sixth, the fifth, and the fourth strings, all three of those strings, and just hit those three. I am going to take my pinkie and I am going to bar here on the seventh fret, across the sixth, the fifth, and the fourth strings.
So again, open, fourth fret, and then seventh fret. Let's do that again. It's important to note that with drop D tunes you can do these root fifth chords anywhere.
Alright, and then I have got a little palm muted open again. Again, anytime you lift your fingers up off the fret, that D5 chord is available to you. See, you just palm mute and hit the bottom three strings.
Now, since it is drop D, our approach to open chord is going to be a little bit different. Let's take a look how you would play an open G in drop D tuning.
We are going to take our second finger here, place it on the fifth fret of the sixth string, just barely touch the fifth string right there, and then get the fourth string open, third string open, second string open. Then here with the back half of my second finger, I am also barely touching the first string. You can also use your first finger here just to barely touch the first string. Then I strum all six strings, the fifth string and the first string will be muted, and that gives me an open G that sounds really good in drop D with lots of distortion.
Jon Foreman: So this song was inspired by a walk on the train tracks late at night that are down by the beach.
Danny Grady: Then the chords starts on the B minor, here goes the G.
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