Everything You Need to Know About Drop D Tuning ★ Acoustic Tuesday 244

Acoustic Tuesday | Guitar Routine Show

Tony Polecastro

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🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Drop D tuning can open up an entire new sonic soundscape, but do you know how best to practice your shapes and scales in this alternate tuning? On today's episode of Acoustic Tuesday, you're going to get a lesson behind the acoustic guitar lick of the week. Every Tuesday, I offer you a quick lesson on learning an awesome lick. But this week, you'll get to see the theory, rationale, and benefits behind learning the lick this week. Specifically, this lick focuses on drop D tuning for the acoustic guitar. Drop D tuning is when you turn your low E string to a low D. This gives you awesome bass sounds and can infuse your playing with bluesy mojo sounds. If you aren't a fan of the blues (to which I say, check yourself!), drop D tuning is used in a variety of different genres. From American Primitive to modern fingerstyle, you're sure to find a great way to apply drop D tuning to your playing. Besides covering drop D tuning, you'll also hear from TAC Family member Shannon and how building a solid guitar routine helped her in a difficult point in her life. Perhaps her story could inspire you, no? Featured in this Episode- Jeffrey Foucault - Heartbreaker Guitars - Martin Guitar - SantaCruzGuitarCo - Luca Stricagnoli - Normans Rare Guitars - Dean Guitars - Gibson TV

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0:00.0	Drop D tuning is one of the most simple and effective alternate tunings you can use.
0:05.9	Today I'm going to show you how to get everything you possibly can out of drop detuning
0:10.5	so you can begin using it regularly in your guitar journey.
0:14.6	Hey, TAC family, welcome to episode 24 of the Acoustic Tuesday Show.
0:20.0	This show is designed to inject your guitar journey with a
0:22.6	weekly dose of fun, focus, progress, and inspiration. A little bit later on today's show,
0:28.1	you'll be meeting TAC family member Shannon. Shannon just started playing guitar again,
0:33.3	and you're going to hear directly from her how big of an impact consistency has had on her guitar
0:38.5	journey so far. It truly is the key to progress and having fun day in and day out. You're also
0:45.6	going to see which guitar lick the TAC family is working on today. It is entitled Driver's Ed,
0:51.2	and yes, it uses drop D tuning.
0:54.7	And of course, your weekly dose of acoustic news awaits, which includes the loss of a legend,
1:00.2	a guitar brand battle, and much, much more.
1:03.2	But first, go ahead and take your low E string and drop it down to a D note for an exploration
1:09.0	into the explosion of creativity that is drop D tuning.
1:13.6	Drop D tuning is a glorious alternate tuning.
1:17.6	And I put alternate tuning in air quotes because to get to drop detuning, you don't really have to do all that much.
1:23.6	Don't worry, I'll show you here in a moment.
1:26.6	But I wanted to present to you
1:28.0	drop detuning in a lesson behind the lick segment because it will give more context to the
1:33.8	lick that you're going to learn here in just a moment. See, every single Tuesday, well, every single
1:38.5	acoustic Tuesday show, I show you what the TAC family is working on. And the lick that they're
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