If you have a chromatic tuner this can be easy. A half a step down is having every note half a step down. A half step is an interval and to the guitar it’s a one fret distance. So, E becomes Eb and so forth. From the low E to the high E it goes Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb The best way is to buy a capo and place it on the first fret then tune to standard pitch. Take it off and you have it tuned down a half step.
I've got this sweet little thing, that makes tuning super easy... I needed to know for "Yellow Submarine" and "I'm Only Sleeping"
Phish played "Waste" a half step down on the album.. it was the devil to figure out how they made it sound that way, so I ended up just playing it higher
I normally tune down half a step when I want to be extra bluesy. Tis one of my most used alternate tunings to EADGBE
if your going from standard tuning which is EADGBE tuning down half a step will give you DGCFAD which is drop D tuning i use this tuning all the time when i use my DEATH METAL pedal.
No it isn't, dropped d tuning is when you drop the low E a tone, to a D. Dropped D is tuned DADGBE What you have done is tuned down a whole-step. TheStoon
One of the only farmous electric songs for DADGAD (mostly an acoustic folk/fingerstyle tuning) is Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.
