Drop C Tuning on your guitar is a really cool drop tuning that works well for many genres of music including metal, blues and country. Drop C tuning is related to drop D tuning, but it is a full tone lower.
You end up with a really rich, low tone that sounds awesome.
If you want to tune your guitar to drop C tuning, here it is:
6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1
C – G – C – F – A – D
If you’re getting a little bored of the same old sound of standard tuning, then why not try dropping your guitar down to C and check out this tuning?
Here’s a guitar lesson on Drop C Tuning:
There are many different bands that use Drop C Tuning on their guitars, and although we can’t list out everyone who has ever used that specific tuning, here’s a very short list of a few bands that are well known for using Drop C.
- Dream Theatre
- Mudvayne
- System of a Down (SOAD)
- Killswitch Engage
- Breaking Benjamin
- Metallica
- Led Zeppelin
- Steve Vai
- Atreyu
- John Mayer
- Avenged Sevenfold
- And many many more..!
Once you start looking for it, you’ll find groups using Drop C Tuning all over the place, it really is quite common!
