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grubbyboy
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 Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:05 pm Post subject: How do i tune d stand? |
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Help plz?
And make it simple and explain in steps, im not sure what lots of people mean when they talk about half step, whole step shit. but yeah help would be appreciated. I can do everything with my tuner but the c, and f Ive constantly tryed to figure out how to tune it them but cant, how can I do this easily? |
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Rollie
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| If you can work out the other five strings then C should have the same sound as the fifth fret on your newly G string. Much the same as D would have the same tuning as the A on standard tuning. |
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GezzyDiversion
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Standard -EADGBE
Standard Half Step Down - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb
Standard Whole Step Down - D G C F A D
on your tuner, there maybe a flat 'b' symbol, press it once for half step and then once again for whole step. |
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grubbyboy
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| GezzyDiversion wrote: | Standard -EADGBE
Standard Half Step Down - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb
Standard Whole Step Down - D G C F A D
on your tuner, there maybe a flat 'b' symbol, press it once for half step and then once again for whole step. |
you made no sence |
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I punched your family
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:53 am Post subject: |
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If you don't understand that then maybe you should consider a change of hobby. You asked for the basics and they were given to you.
I have a solution for you though if you can't be bothered learning basic theory. Go to the guitar shop. Get a pitch shift pedal. |
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Chris89
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Anybody find it amusing that he says it makes no sense, when they only thing in the thread making no sense was the spelling and use of "plz"
Chav txt spk init? |
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grubbyboy
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| I punched your family wrote: | If you don't understand that then maybe you should consider a change of hobby. You asked for the basics and they were given to you.
I have a solution for you though if you can't be bothered learning basic theory. Go to the guitar shop. Get a pitch shift pedal. |
I am learning from my guitar teacher, so shut the fuck up and back off. Unless you want to actually help instead of pissing me off, what did i do to you? absolotely nothing
Anybody find it amusing that he says it makes no sense, when they only thing in the thread making no sense was the spelling and use of "plz"
Chav txt spk init(qoute)
Shut up, i hate people like you, that was one word and I never text, it was just a quick way of saying it. Anybody can undurstand plz |
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The Granite Deities
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| do you hate me? |
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I punched your family
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| grubbyboy wrote: |
I am learning from my guitar teacher, so shut the fuck up and back off. Unless you want to actually help instead of pissing me off, what did i do to you? absolotely nothing
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Excuse me? Your question has been answered by multiple people in the most basic and pedestrian way. How can I be supposed to help you when you have clearly indicated that you don't understand these simple answers to the question you have asked?
Here is my attempt to help you. Im going to have to spoonfeed you as its clear you need everything spelled out in greater detail. I will assume that you can tune to standard tuning. If you can't you might as well stop reading.
Straight D is the same as standard tuning only 2 half steps of 1 whole step lower in terms of tone depending on which way it is easier for you to look at it.
A half step is a fret. Imagine that you have your finger on the 5th fret on the low E string. If you were to move your finger one fret back onto the 4th fret then you would have moved a half step down. If you moved your finger to the 3rd fret you would have moved your finger a whole step.
The musical term for a half step is a semitone. The musical term for a whole step is a tone.
Now if you have followed up to this point what you need to do is take your guitar down a tone. This is called Straight D because it is a tone lower than Straight E which is your standard tuning. You have several options as to how to do this.
One is to use a tuner. As it has been pointed out most tuners have a button which flattens the sound. What this will look like is a back to front "b". On most tuners if you press that button twice so that 2 flats appear on the screen when you tune to standard pitch (EADGBE) then you will be in straight D.
This is not what I would recommend as I always advocate learning how to do something without the aid of tuners and such. If you know how to tune a guitar by ear then you won't have a problem. If you dont then you must learn. If you are familiar with how to get into drop D then it's easy enough.
Put your guitar into drop D by making your lowest string the same note as your 3rd (d) string. Then you do the same for your A instead you make it sound the same as your 4th (g) string. Then you tune up as you would normally do it by making the tone of your 3rd string sound the same as the 5th fret on your newly tuned 2nd string. Continue up as you normally would; not forgetting to tune your fifth string to the fourth fret on your 4th string as you normally would when tuning to standard.
Its very straightforward. If you cant understand this then you probably should have just asked your guitar teacher to demonstrate the concept for you. |
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thedarknesslover06
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 9:59 am Post subject: |
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[quote="I punched your family"] | grubbyboy wrote: |
Its very straightforward. If you cant understand this then you probably should have just asked your guitar teacher to demonstrate the concept for you. |
or go to Yahoo Answers! and ask there 
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Luke
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:47 am Post subject: |
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LOL @ this thread  |
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Fender54
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| Hi I have been playing guitar for just over 50 years and have found this thread amusing. to save me spending hours writing this out, the easy way is to visit www dot howtotuneaguitar dot org and you will find every tuning possible. all explained in an easy way |
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