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Drop D Tuning for Acoustic Guitar
As part of our series on alternate tunings, today I’ll be extolling the virtues of drop D tuning. This darker, haunting tuning, while the simplest of alternate tunings and arguably the most common, is particularly well suited to the acoustic guitar. In the following article we’re going to take an in-depth look at drop D …
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