D Standard Guitar
All strings tuned a full step down from standard. Common in heavy and doom metal.
D Standard takes every string down a full step from E Standard. The tone gets noticeably heavier and darker. Black Sabbath's later albums, Alice in Chains and several doom metal bands use this tuning to get a thick, grinding sound without needing extended-range guitars.
Your chord shapes and scale patterns stay the same as E Standard, just transposed down two frets. A song in D Standard that you fret at the 2nd fret sounds like the open position in E Standard.
At the Gates 1
At The Gates #atthegates #tabs #guitarcover #deathmetal #riffs 1
Bob Dylan 2
Bob Marley & The Wailers 1
Cat Stevens 1
David Bowie 1
Dissection 7
Entombed #swedishdeathmetal #entombed #tabs #guitarcover 1
Eric Clapton 7
- 1 Layla Unplugged - Solo LESSON 1992
- 2 Layla Unplugged - Verse & Chorus LESSON 1992
- 3 Layla Unplugged Acoustic TAB 1992
- 4 Layla Unplugged Pt.1 - Intro LESSON 1992
- 5 Layla Unplugged Pt.3 - Solo LESSON 1992
- 6 Tears in Heaven TAB 1992
- 7 Tears In Heaven - Acoustic LESSON 1992
Fleetwood Mac 2
Megadeth 3
Metallica 4
Morbid Angel 1
Opeth 3
Pantera 8
Pink Floyd 10
- 1 Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 TAB 1979
- 2 Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 TAB 1979
- 3 Comfortably Numb TAB 1979
- 4 Dogs TAB 1977
- 5 Hey You TAB 1979
- 6 In the Flesh? LESSON 1979
- 7 Mother TAB 1979
- 8 Run Like Hell COVER 1979
- 9 The Thin Ice LESSON 1979
- 10 Young Lust TAB 1979
Robert De Visée 1
Simon & Garfunkel 1
The Beach Boys 1
The Beatles 8
- 1 I Me Mine LESSON 1970
- 2 I Want To Hold Your Hand TAB 1963
- 3 Mother Nature's Son LESSON 1969
- 4 Norwegian Wood ACOUSTIC 1965
- 5 Norwegian Wood - Acoustic LESSON 1965
- 6 This Boy Guitar Chords Lesson LESSON 1963
- 7 We Can Work It Out LESSON 1965
- 8 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away LESSON 1965
The Mamas and the Papas 1
The Police 2
D Standard for Heavy Styles
The lower tension means heavier strings are recommended to keep the feel tight. A set starting at .011 or .012 works well. The tone sits in a sweet spot between standard tuning clarity and the muddiness that can creep in at lower tunings like C Standard.
If you like the weight of Drop D but want all six strings tuned evenly, D Standard is the natural choice. Explore C Standard to go even lower.