Originally posted by paradoxima
in reading this post i see that everyone is making sense, but they are argueing over different strings.

what Luke_16 meant to say (ok, he said it, but obviously not clear enough) is that you hold the 7th fret on the E string. You play the A and E strings, then you retune the E string until it sounds like the A, all while you are holding down the 7th fret on the E string, so it is the E string you retune, the rest have supposedly already been tuned.

It also works to hold in the 5th fret on the A string and then retune the E string to sound the same, the only thing is that there there will be an octave difference between the notes you tuning, so it is harder to tell when they are perfectly in tune.

Hope that cleared a few things up.
Paradoxima
You did a great job explaining droped D Tuning.*****
Now when teaching my students i use the open E open D ,strings to get the droped D tuning.
Why i teach this way is to help Develope thier ear training.
Because on the stage or playing in a band later on once,
they are able to do it this way,they will be able to drop,
the low E to D in a matter of seconds in between songs,
plus tune it back to E. ect ect.
This way they don't have to use 2 guitars on stage or buy,
another one just so they can use the droped D or Droped G,
tuneings in a band or just jamming.
If they want later on they can have a droped D tuneing Key,
put on thier guitar or a droped G tuning Key .ect ect
Some Bass men use a droped D tuning key on thier, Bass's.ect

P:S Yes it is the harder way of doing it.But it can,
help deveope a great ear for music later on.
Plus a Electronic Tuner is great when first starting out on the guitar but it dos;nt help,
develope your ear's for music, but a pitch pipe dos.
I might add that i knew at the time Luke_16 did'nt know,
the notes on the guitar ,when he first answred the question,on droped D tuning.But i'm Proud to say he dos,
now because he sent me an e-mail thanking me on learning,
the notes on the guitar by useing my crash course on learning the notes on guitar.

Mark

[Edited by skee1 on 09-22-2001 at 11:32 AM]