3 Tips For Drop D Tuning

In this week's lesson, we check out 3 tips to help you explore Drop D tuning!
#3Tips #DropD #AxeOfCreation
Enjoy these lessons? Looking for TABs?
You can support the channel here:
/ axeofcreation
www.subscribestar.com/axe-of-...
LOOKING FOR GEAR?
Please use my Sweetwater Affiliate Link: imp.i114863.net/r5BPR
Other gear I use:
Ernie Ball Strings
imp.i114863.net/7j9N5
Ernie Ball Patch Cables
imp.i114863.net/joGLZ
Dunlop Flow Picks
imp.i114863.net/Vqv5j
Universal Audio Apollo Twin (Windows)
imp.i114863.net/XDve3
MXR Pedals
imp.i114863.net/oEg9W
Mesa Boogie TC 50
imp.i114863.net/zL5VG
Mesa Boogie 2x12 Cabinet
imp.i114863.net/Wmvke
Rodes NTG4+
imp.i114863.net/bAroM
I proudly endorse and play:
Kiesel Guitars: www.kieselguitars.com/customshop/
NeuralDSP: neuraldsp.com/
Spectraflex Cables: spectraflex.com/
Ernie Ball Strings: www.ernieball.com/guitar-stri...
Facebook: / axeofcreation
Instagram: / axeofcreation
Twitter: / axeofcreation
BitChute: www.bitchute.com/axeofcreation/
Axe of Creation Discussion Group:
/ axeofcreationdiscussio...

[@ByronScollins]

my tuning to Drop D is always ends with playing Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes intro:D

[@ethantapp5370]

Your Tool tutorials really got me introduced to drop tunings. I appreciate your videos so much man. I play in drop A# now for my own stuff, but I've been recently been back to drop D with Fear Inoculum dropping. Keep up the great work!

[@danelgegeev4144]

What string thickness you’re using? I use 12-54 and wonder if I should try going thicker. Really don’t want to file the nut again 🙃

[@Neishy4AGTE]

I've been getting the Tool song tutorials in my recommended from years ago for the last few weeks, good to see this guy is still going strong.

[@ryanrooprai5104]

He's doing a great job covering those. It helps us to make our guitar playing more powerful.

[@markust8904]

I love the comment " I don't know guys"just making stuff here," is brilliant for the beginner out there. Amazing Love it.

[@stephenbarton2625]

Yet again you have blown me away. I am past the beginning stage now but this was all EXACTLY what I needed to get out of the sonic rut I was in. Thank you Greg!!!!!

[@matty42087]

I have no idea how to play guitar, yet still watch your videos once they come out. You're awesome!

[@xXpapercutsXx]

Matt Sinner pick up a guitar man!

[@SpecialistGuava]

What Charles said. Just do it. You'll have fun at first even when you suck.

[@littlewarcovers]

I was like you :) I am now learning for nearly 6 months. You have the itches so go on and get a guitar, or not eheh just enjoy music in any way it feels good

[@85irie]

It's been a year Matt! Did you start learning?

[@paulpugh5315]

If you realy want girls throwing themselves at your feet.....get yourself a cheap loud (100w) amp,a cheap guitar (no trem) ,a tuner app,a spare empty wharehouse with electric, and thrash some drop D over and over till your fingers hurt... If you've got something to say....do it with volume (Overkill by Motorhead is a good start) no fancy chords but full on "New Metal"....over to you Matt.

[@scottsguitarlessonsblacksa9648]

Just beginning with the drop D, I appreciate the tips

[@willie6809]

Thank you for your continued efforts on putting out a great product. Your knowledge and delivery is unmatched especially in the Tool department. Super stoked that you are working through the new album. Once again thank you very much. Cheers BWS Clovis Ca

[@srikarvar]

This guy makes the guitar less intimidating honestly! such simple ideas which lead you to some badass riffs!

[@fuctus1620]

The way you described going from pentatonic to frigian at the end made SO much sense to me man. If the rest of your lessons make half that much sense I'm a lifetime watcher

[@avelinomike]

Right!! I am letting my wife and grandaughter actually LEARN guitar form this guy. F the open chord mess. They wanna plan. this guy is killer.

[@ap7390]

Phrygian*

[@altarsofplague7394]

Man I love your video's! They're straight to the point and easy to understand, you do well with not overcomplicating thing's it's great. You deserve a lot more subs brother! Keep up the good work🤘

[@fcp5039]

I really liked that you had a spectrum of tips and ideas.

[@brycedadevil2146]

ive been playing guitar off/on since like 2006, and he said something that made so much since. He basically said give yourself a "canvas" to play on, and wow dude yeah I love how he said that.. goes to show you are never too good to learn something!!

[@wolfey41]

LOVE the DROP D content on this channel!

[@chriszamu7024]

Havent seen your channel in awhile, its looking way better, your tips still helpful as always

[@gimphandjeff]

These are especially great on acoustic! Thanks for the video!

[@liamx6636]

Excellent lesson. Out of the thousands of guitar teachers on KZbin, your channel is the best. From one ax man to another, thanks!

[@Gee-no]

Thanks for this! Really. As a life long standard player (E or D standard) I was having a little trouble getting away from blues scale one finger riffs (fun as shit of course) but your ideas have opened my eyes. I like the higher string triads while chugging on the low string (I'm playing drop C, btw, trying to transpose from drop D as you play on screen). You truly gave me some new ideas. Thank you very much, sir 🤘🏻👍🏻

[@asadadon]

Fuck It! I'm going to commit. At 42 years old. I'm going to learn to play the guitar.

[@jetaimemina]

Report?

[@matthewerdman]

very informational dude! I always loved dropped tuning because of it's low end sound with harsh chords, very metal.

[@diabeticmonkey]

Another tip for beginners. When you tune to drop D, tune the lowest string just slightly flat. That will compensate for the difference in tension and keep you in tune a bit better

[@diabeticmonkey]

Lee McDonald I picked up that trick from Adrian Smith 👍🏻

[@timothyhingham3672]

Thanks for that tip. when I play in standard tuning, I tune the d string slightly sharp and the g string ever so slightly flat. It makes the open chords shapes for D and A Major sound in tune with a little practice.

[@DaveTaste]

Probably best to get your own channel instead of telling people what to do on here.

[@donnienarco144]

@@DaveTaste well he is contributing more to teaching about the instrument than you isn't he?

[@juicybiscuit527]

​Dingleberry coconut!

[@jaredmeier1438]

Love your channel man. Its really helpful for me as a self taught that's not very good

[@7stringedmetal]

Dude, your channel is so good and so helpful. Thank you.

[@selimaslan5916]

Great video mate, i appreciate the work you put in your videos.

[@skumpi74]

Best guitar teacher on KZbin. Extremely knowledgeable, skilled player, and clear instruction. ***** Keep it up, AOC!

[@timandjessica4204]

You should check out Bernth, if you haven't already

[@BooBooKitteyFuck]

7.55 sounds so much like it could be a Mastodon riff

[@antondoesfood8532]

I was thinking the exact same thing!

[@mattmovesmountains1443]

I kept thinking he was about to start playing Blood and Thunder!.. but that's in D standard I think

[@MetalDoraemon6]

keep up the good work. great examples. improved my composition methods. thank you

[@baileyharnage7333]

Dude thanks! I just learned from you with my new used b.c rich Earlock Bronze Series! This thing would shred if I had the equipment. I'm running it straight to my speaker with new strings. Shout Out to Guitar Center in Phoenix AZ for all of the accessories provided for so many years. Thank You all Supporters of this. I'll be learning alot now.

[@4amwaj]

Loved this vid dude... will try to learn some more from this aswell... thanks heaps pal!!

[@paolokropp7875]

What an underrated lesson! Thankyou so much it helps a lot!

[@ptdakos]

I hope I won't sound to be exaggerating, but the bonus tip is pretty much the most "wow" tip for beginners I've ever heard on YT in many years. Many people who pick up the guitar learn to only tune with a tuner, but the oscillation of the two notes is something simple yet so fundamental to understand how sounds work. Big props!

[@tomflynn2912]

Long time ago someone showed me how to tune up using harmonics and listening to the pulses of the octaves like you were doing. A cool way to tune up

[@joseph1172]

Thank you Bro! I needed this!

[@surf247365]

🤘🏾🤘🏾your videos Rock!!🤘🏾🤘🏾Thank you!

[@adolfoagudelo8462]

Wow thanks! Very good lesson!

[@avelinomike]

You are the best man.

[@redgummibrain2644]

Amazing my friend thank you

[@ianbarker2420]

great tutoring and many will learn from it. Ta

[@TheTazman63]

Nice stuff 👍 and great lesson thanks

[@samuelleevallongo9752]

Love it tyvm

[@appacana]

love this channel

[@Shifty1940]

Great video. Good teaching

[@fischer55]

Thanks man

[@angeldusted1577]

Genius!!

[@knoulala]

And agaiiiin, great content man ! As usual :)

[@ghoulbeansz]

4:23 I thought you were going to start playing smoke on the water xD

[@MichaelBrown-gk5be]

Love it!

[@mescalito2178]

Please more like this ❤

[@mojo-hand4539]

Good stuff Bro. First vid of yours i've seen - and you got a new subscriber.

[@axeofcreation]

Awesome, thank you!

[@electricmeatpuppet]

I know you've touched on it, but Id love to see you do another video on some more complex or interesting chords and alternate voicing in drop tunings. Also, i've recently started playing around with dropping that high string to match, although it does change things a lot, but you get some really cool sounds under your fingers which is a nice change (im in drop C usually)

[@krzysztofzakrzewski7777]

Fain lesson, concrete and simple, thank You 👍

[@comree11]

I don’t comment much but this helped me way to much for free info. Thanks so much

[@ryanssongrs]

Nice 🔥

[@davidmorales9778]

Great video. Tnks from argentina

[@thomascorbett6627]

Good channel !!

[@unacuentadeyoutube13]

That back les paul is badass af

[@stonks5174]

Isn’t it a beauty 😍

[@unacuentadeyoutube13]

@@stonks5174 it totally is

[@christophermiller2349]

You told everyone to find their D's! Well done sir. Lol

[@lisalegato0109]

I loooooove drop D

[@nn-NeuralNetwork]

Very useful

[@GJ11598]

You always have some cool shit. I'm not a great player, but watching these videos I've been able to start getting some good ideas riff wise so thanks man keep up with the awesome content! You should do a "scales for dummies" video because that's like chinese to me for some reason lol.

[@BBGuitars]

A great tutorial for beginners, extending on how to drop tune, would be how to correctly set the intonation for the dropped string since most guitars will come set up for standard. Will help a lot of people stay in tune across the fretboard while they explore drop d!

[@unoriginal_name7091]

Most guitars don't come set up for anything. This is a beginner video and imo intonation is an intermediate topic.

[@BBGuitars]

@@unoriginal_name7091 hectic

[@1robbie55382]

Nice.....the fog has left my brain......Thank you.

[@nicolasaraistrujak208]

I really like the part of the greek modes part

[@nathanflowers9950]

His intro remind me of a tool song on 10,000 days!😁 now I know how he did it drop d

[@avelinomike]

badass

[@EDGARDOUX1701]

Great lesso!! Suscribed too. Would like to see more videos on drop D..what else can we do with it. Thank you!

[@philboath8135]

Thanks man I like to detune both my high and low E strings to D.

[@electricmeatpuppet]

I've recently started playing around with dropping both and it's great (Im in drop C though, it's just gnarly), changes a lot of traditional chord voicings and drives my mate nuts but i love it

[@ettuShaggy]

Called double drop d (or whichever note your tuned to)

[@preston8836]

This is how guitar teaching should be. Good theory but actually based around playing something with it not just trying to find notes with no real understanding of their actual effect on the piece of music.

[@davidhoxit4274]

I love drop D tuning! Thanks!

[@flandrekagamine5296]

Been watching you for about a year now, and I play exclusively in drop D so this is one I've been waiting for. I would love to see a video of different Adam Jones riffs to practice various techniques. For example, Schism is good practice for rhythmic hammers and Vicarious is a good steady odd time riff to practice counting.

[@heavymetalmusictheory]

He's done TONS of TOOL...

[@stephenbarton2625]

Yeah just look at his playlist. He does all of the big hits. This guy rocks! Wish he was in Indiana or I was in Cali! I would totally be his drummer or singer for his band!

[@MadnessInTheMoonlight]

“All of a sudden it goes away” that shit clicked man, thank you

[@billhinsperger8120]

Cool

[@doyouevengrowbro]

🎸 PROVOKE THE TRUTH. !! 💯

[@Hatchbackpapii]

We need more of “that riff” riffs

[@timothyhingham3672]

I always thought drop d was dropping to the open e major chord shape in d at the nut. So DADFAD. Hard to do much with that on the plain strings without a lot of learning and practice.

[@KrisSchwarz98]

2:49 - 2:58 sounds like a nu metal song like the intro to one or the breakdown 😂

[@skymandollarhite7742]

LiL KRiZz it is lol. It’s aerials by System of a Down in the breakdown I think

[@lucasvarela9632]

Might have to get black kiesel

[@joopnotyop]

i love u

[@isaacbernardez6193]

i think the guitar needs more gain...

[@unoriginal_name7091]

Yeah this tone sucks

[@poloniumsugarcube611]

No boss metal zone here guys .you are on the wrong channel 🤣

[@unoriginal_name7091]

@@poloniumsugarcube611 his tone is so bad that a metal zone would be an improvement

[@briandress2448]

Any content on DADGAD?

[@mattbeggs8657]

What's going on everybody...ohh hold on gotta sit through 2 ads now great

[@czg2012]

2:52 sounds like Glenn Tipton Paint it Black.

[@GuitarDoco]

Cool... For a 7 string guitar, in Drop D tuning, what will be the tuning for the 7th string?

[@scottfuller5371]

Someone who has it in his soul..but quickly left that feeling to be a teacher of sorts. I'm on the fence with this . Glad its uploaded non theless.

[@overcome8628]

when I play the DM chord in the 5th position, on my guitar it sounds an octave lower. I have to play 789 to get your 567 DM sound what gives?

[@gabek279]

long time watcher first time commenter....have some buzzing off the back hum bucker on my guitar when i play drop D higher on the guitar neck --- is this as simple as raising the bridge-- any considerations here---not experienced enough at messing around with the guitar in this way

[@JackieBGoode]

Gabe K when you lower it to D, the string becomes more loose. It makes it so that it will move up and down more when it vibrates, making it more likely to hit the fretboard. If it’s an electric however, your amp probably won’t pick this up.

[@cd2028]

What's the tuning called that you're moving into drop d from?

[@vikasbiliye5023]

I dropped the e string to d, now all the other strings are out of tune. What happened?

[@xrayspect]

what the string gage best for d drop

[@allanaxe6781]

What string gauge are you using ? :)

[@c_farther5208]

Dropped-D tuning (D A D G B E)

[@lichkrieg4898]

Started in standard, then to drop D, Drop C to drop A and now I'm in B standard. As time passes my strings get thicker and my tuning gets lower. I bought a used bass, and the same thing Is happening with the bass too lol.

[@boseifrit5480]

Octobass

[@f1rebreather123]

Update when you get to drop E

[@subhamgogoi3989]

Does it mean with drop D tuning it’s better to stay with the key of D because of the open D string?? And if I want to use a different key should I tune it down to another drop tuning like drop B for example if I want the key of B ??

[@axeofcreation]

Not necessarily but think of how many Metal songs (Metallica) are centered around Em. That's because the focus or general style of that music in based off the low string. Drop D just makes exploring and creating an D centered harmonic backdrop easier.

[@subhamgogoi3989]

Axe of Creation That makes sense hmm thanks for replying man! That’s really nice of you🙏 and please please do make more videos on how to come up with riff ideas like Periphery, Tesseract and all these modern prog bands!! And also, how do I use chord melodies in drop tuning like periphery?? Please do make a video on that! Your videos really help a lot. Please never stop making.

[@tobiasmenough]

The "wobble" is actually called ,"dissonance".. Adam Jones does it quite a bit .It can sound very cool if done correctly .. THANK YOU Mr Jones!!! TOOL

[@JaysonVdirector]

Yo! Could you maybe do a quick lesson on the chug part on Pneuma?

[@axeofcreation]

I've actually done a complete lesson on it!

[@jorgensemaille6052]

4:22 ...0-3-6-5 bro

[@DoomerNavajo7]

Scales?

[@abrahamgeorge654]

Smoke on the water 4:43

[@thomascorbett6627]

"HOW THE SCALE (QUOTATION SIGN) HAHA

[@nathanflowers9950]

Definitely needs more gain. Otherwise great

[@invisiblegraveyard4742]

Greg, i have a stupid theory question. You are turning single notes within a scale into power chords. But, ive seen where each note in a specific scale is assigned a specific Roman Numeral. And those Roman Numerals dictate whether that chord is a minor or major chord. But, you are playing all power chords. Am I overthinking this???

[@Levy3o8]

When you see the roman numerals, that's a reference to that note's position in the scale, and the upper/lower case of the numeral indicates major or minor chord structure. C major (CDEFGAB) for example, a C chord (aka the I chord) would be CEG chord. Some chords in major keys may sound minor, while some minor key chords will sound major, it's based on how far the notes are from each other that make up the chord (visualize a keyboard). For example, that CEG chord is major because it has 3 notes (C#, D and D#) unused between the first notes, and 2 unused notes (F and F#) between the last 2 notes. Minor chords are opposite (2 unused notes of the keyboard between the first and second notes, and 3 unused between the second and third notes of the chord). Power chords are made up of the root, a 5th, and an octave. A C power chord for example is CGC. It's been years since AP music theory, so I may not be using proper terminology, and anyone please correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my understanding.

[@invisiblegraveyard4742]

@@Levy3o8 Thank you for your detailed analysis.