Which tuning is lower Drop D or Drop F?

Question

I'm new to this and I don't which tuning is lower and I'm comparing those to the standard E tuning, if drop F is lower than drop D then is drop A lower than drop F? What about drop G?

Answer 1

Nick got it right...until the end.



Regular 6 strings guitar can be tuned down to drop B, even though most of them only tune it down to drop C which tunes the strings to CGCFAD, drop D is DADGBE.



However to tune down drop A and drop F, you would need a 7 string guitar for Drop A. Which is lower than drop C by a minor third. Im not sure if you can tune down a 7 strings to drop F since that would be, an augmented 5th tune down from B, which is a big drop, but I know 8 strings guitar can be tuned down to it, which would be lower than drop A.



so in the musical Alphabet, notes repeat and they go ABCDEFG. you start with E, and dropping it down would go down the notes, which tells you the order of lower would be E standard, Drop D, Drop C, Drop B(or 7th string standard), Drop A, Drop G, F#(8 strings standard), and drop F. Ofcourse you can drop to the notes in between as well, Eb/D#, Db/C# etc.

Answer 2

Firstly, please ignore Nick who doesn't seem to know the difference between a string and a chord and Victor who thinks Nick "got it right"!



Standard tuning is EADGBE. Despite what some people think, it has nothing to do with "E" and the term "E standard" is ridiculous and misleading. This is one of the reasons why so many semi-players think a guitar has to be tuned according to the key of the music being played.



Dropped D, as some people call it, Drop D is DADGBE. The other "Drop" tunings that people mention are confusing and there is no agreement over what they actually mean - logically, "Drop C" would be CADGBE and this is what some people mean by it. What most people seem to mean though is that the guitar has (for some reason) been de-tuned by a tone (DGCFAD) and then the sixth string has been "dropped" by another tone (CGCFAD).



The only thing that is more or less certain when people talk of these tunings is that the letter frollowing the "drop" part is the note the sixth string is tuned to. De-tuning the sixth string down to F would make it unplayable. A standard guitar can only be de-tuned by a relatively small amount before there are problems. Of course, most of the fools who advocate doing it have cloth ears, can't play properly and are blissfully unaware of the problems they have!



Without meaning to offend, since you ask this question, I strongly recommend to stick to the tuning your guitar and its strings were designed for: EADGBE until you are a really competent player and you find that you are constrained by standard tuning and that it, rather than you, is the limiting factor in your playing. I've never reached that stage!

Answer 3

E is standard tuning doing drop D or drop C is the same as standard E tuning you just tune the top E chord to D or C so E tuning is like this EADGBE , drop D is tuned like this DADGBE, drop C is tuned like this CDCFAD... Now for what is lower would be drop C ...F and A would be higher tuning...

Answer 4

Drop F would be insanely low. F is "ahead" of the musical alphabet, as it were, so tuning >down< to F would be literally almost an octave below what you're playing.



The alphabet:



A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#



However, rather than drop tunings, I encourage you to employ various standard tunings, as in C or D standard. These have the same intervals as E but are tuned according to the lowest string. D standard would be steps down: DGCFAD. C standard would be: CFA#D#GC, and so on.



Drops C, D, G, and A would all be higher than the heavy-as-balls Drop F, to answer your main question.