Down a half step

Here is a question that may be obviouse, but if you tune down a half step doesn't that throw all of your chord fingering and scales off a half step also? What I mean I guess, is do you move your scale patterns back one fret also?

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---3 Would this still be a C chord?

If this is so, being so new at playing guitar, it would be like learning scale positions all over again. I don't even want to think what drop D would do to my learning proceess. I guess you all got there one step at a time... thanks again

Ok. When you detune a half step, technically, the position where an A chord or a G chord was is now an A flat chord and a G flat chord. But that gets really confusiong on the guitar. So it is universally accepted that when you're detuned and you tell someone you're playing a D chord when it's really a D flat chord, you just tell 'em that it's a D chord but make sure they know you're detuned. It would be nuts to relearn all the positions for everything all over again.

However, if you're in drop D or DADGAD or something other than an equivalent to standard tuning, you're screwed.

your not necesarilly screwed if you know your fretboard than you can figure out where you need to put your fingers to make it again

drop d ain't bad. might be my favorite tuning too.

I play Droped D then a whole step down. I don't move my fingering, I play the same stuff at the same places, it just sounds lower. But for half-step move down 1 fret, whole step, move down 2 frets. Laterz

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