Standard or Drop (Poll)

[Esp Griffyn]

Standard, I've never liked drop tuning.

 

[nutsock]

6-drop c
7-drop a
used to hate playing drop tunings for the longest time because i felt i came up with the same sounding riffs but after playing mostly drop c songs with my band im alot more comfortable with them to the point where thats what i mostly play in

 

[ScrotieMcBoogerballs]

Drop Bb flat and Drop C for me. I really like expansive chords using triads off of the lowest three strings so it seems like a no brain for me.

 

[jazz_munkyy]

i for the most part i play in A standard on my 7 string sometimes venturing to F standard and C# standard on my 6 string sometimes i use drop G or drop B.

its kinda funny to me seeing as i used to use drop tunnings as much as possible when i first started

 

[Throat Hole]

for me it depends on which band i'm playing in and what song it is

in my main band almost all the material is in drop C

in my other band we alternate between Eb standard and drop C#

as far as 7 strings go i usually keep my schecter in A standard, my 7421 in Bb and my jackson DR7 in B standard

 

[hairychris]

Usually standard. My band that uses 7s has one song that was originally written in drop-D on a 6, so we need to retune if using that in a set.

At home I usually only play around with drop tunings on 6ers, buta have also tried Drop-E on my 8.

 

[Veritech Zero]

I definitely appreciate Standard tuning a bit more (normally C#, F#, B, E, G#, C#)

But Drop tunings can be fun every now and then.

 

[fr4nci2c0]

I used to play only in dropped tuning and than someone told me that playing in dropped is stupid, so I took that as a challenge to try to write music in standard. Now I love standard. My aucoustic is in eadgbe and my electric is in C# standard. I feel like standard forces me to play melodically. When I am in dropped my music is more aggressive. I like both though! dont get me wrong. What do you guys think ? whats the difference between standard and dropped for you?

 

[noise in my mind]

I don't confine myself.

 

[Antares88]

I prefer having an open power chord. That's all I have to say.