Double Drop D Guitar Tuning (D, B G, D, A, D )

Double Drop D Guitar Tuning

This is the Double Drop D guitar tuning, a very interesting and certainly a contemporary tuning, starting from a regular drop D tuning it could be use to get more “open” sounds and "uncommon" voicing chords on your guitar.

The double drop D is a variation popularized in the electric guitar’s early days and is a useful tuning as well today. The legendary Jimmy Page used a few double drop D guitars tuned this way for some famous Led Zeppelin’s songs.

To get the double drop D guitar tuning, first tune to a Drop D - the rest is lowering the first E string (the highest) 2 semitones from E to D. The result will be a guitar tuned this way: D, B G, D, A, D instead of the E, B, G, D, A, D tuning that is the regular Drop D. The double Drop D Tuner is not available at this moment, please start from the Drop D below.

So how do you tune a guitar - that is previously tuned in standard tuning - to Double Drop D? Simply tuning both E strings (1st and 6th) down to D – this means, lower both strings by a whole tone (from the E note to the D note).

If you are looking for new tools to your personal guitar knowledge arsenal, always take in consideration to try different alternate tunings as well as the double drop D guitar tuning…it use to be an enrichment experience.