Standard or Drop (Poll)

[RGA8]

What do you use?

Standard or Drop?

I'll start; Standard (F# B E A D G b e)

Edit: Which one do you prefer?

Also if you want to leave feedback on your choice I'd like to hear it

(please forgive me if this question has been asked before)

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

Umm both....

My Loomis usually stays in drop A

The 7421 in B

Arc300 in drop C

 

[RGA8]

which one do you prefer?

 

[Iamasingularity]

I don`t see a poll box anywhere???

 

[RGA8]

you can make a poll box? Oh I see it now.

 

[leftyguitarjoe]

6 string in drop C
7 string in drop Ab
8 string in drop E

So yeah. I like dropped tunings.

 

[MatthewK]

I use standard eadgbe most of the time, mostly because I'm lazy.

 

[MikeH]

I use dropped about 99% of the time, but I do like jamming in D standard or C standard every once in a while.

 

[fitterhappier]

I have 5 6-string guitars: Drop A#, Drop B, Drop C, Drop C#, Drop D. Love the dropped tunings. However, if I were to get a 7 or 8 string, I'd probably keep it in standard.

 

[bradthelegend]

It really depends on the song. I used to be an "all dropped, all the time" kind of player, constantly tuning lower and lower trying to get that "heavier" tone, then I moved to 7-strings, which I drop tuned. But bands like The Red Chord, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Job for a Cowboy (post Genesis) showed me that standard can be just as heavy. My band and I write about half and half, between C# standard and drop B.

 

[Double A]

Well. When I used 6ers I tuned to D standard but when I moved to seven strings I just kept it at B standard because that is heavy enough.

 

[Joelan]

Drop D on my sixer and drop C on my seven. I occasionally tune up to standard but I do most of my writing in dropped tunings.

I like dropped tunings just because I find it easier to play a bunch of chord shapes that I really like. Often they're just impossible/impractical in standard.

 

[Thep]

I play in standard tuning because I don't have the mental capacity to transpose the chords when chicks are in the bedroom and want me to play their favorite songs. And because I'm in a pop rock band.

But otherwise I play in C# standard. The best death metal tuning evaaarr!!

 

[ittoa666]

I play drop tunings in my main band, but most of the time I alternate.

 

[Osiris]

Standard because drop tunings fucks up scales and arpeggios and pretty much everything. I dont see how one can constantly play on a drop tuned guitar unless he learned on that tuning. I just cant adapt like that.

 

[Miek]

I only use one finger to play guitar, and I only use 2 strings, sometimes 3 if I'm feeling saucy

 

[bouVIP]

I like playing in Drop for convenience purposes and it's just natural to me though I do like to play in standard when I'm feeling soft

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

I mostly play Standard myself, but if you're one of those people that think only talentless bands play in drop tunings...

King's X.

 

[GSingleton]

I use both but ultimately prefer....drop

 

[BIG ND SWEATY]

on my 7- drop g#, drop g, and f standard
on my 6- c# standard, drop c, c standard, drop b
my other 6- drop a and drop g