Guitar tuning
There are many different tunings for the guitar , which make it easier to use the instrument for a song or a certain musical style.
Standard mood
The most common tuning of the guitar is EAdgh-e ' ( looking from the lowest / thickest to the highest / thinnest string) and is called the standard tuning . Deviating from this, all strings are often tuned a little lower in order to better fit a male singing voice, with a semitone lower one speaks of Eb standard, with a whole tone lower of D standard (DGcfa-d ').
Drop tunings
A variant for the electric guitar that is mainly used in the metal genre are drop tunings , tunings in which only the lowest string (E) is tuned a whole tone lower. This makes power chords easier to play. Drop-D is E-Standard with the lowest string on D, Drop-Db or Drop C # is Eb-Standard with the lowest string on Db, Drop-C is D-Standard with the lowest string tuned to C.