Drop d chords chart

Get rocking with the easiest altered tuning of them all, using our guide to drop D basics for electric guitar...

“Drop D tuning, then.

What’s that all about?”

Well, unless you’ve just taken your first guitar out of its box for the first time, you’re probably used to tuning your instrument. Hopefully you’ll know the names of the strings too: E, A, D, G, B and E from the lowest-pitched string going up to the highest.

“Yeah, I know how to tune up.

So drop D is something to do with the D string, right?” Actually no, but it does involve a D note. The idea is that the sixth string, the lowest note on the guitar, remember, is down-tuned from an E to a D. It’s also known as a drop tuning.

Hey presto, you get the name ‘drop D tuning’. Simple!

“That makes sense.

Why bother though? What’s the use?”

First, drop D enables you to play a couple of handy chord shapes. They’re easy to play and great fun too – the boxout on the right explains all. Secon

how do you play ag chord in drop d tuning

chords in drop d