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August 11th, 2007
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Can't play canon rock with standard tuning?
Canon Rock by jerryC is supposed to be played in dropped D which as far as I know is an alternate tuning which I don't know how to do. But when I started looking at the tabs on ultimate guitar it sounded OK with standard tuning as well (I was just trying it out a bit on my acoustic since my electric hasn't arrived yet) so are these tabs supposed to be played in dropped D or standard tuning? canon rock | Songs search @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Maybe someone with an electric guitar could just try some of the easy parts to check it out?
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Drop D means you tune the low E string down to a D. All other notes will stay the same, so most of what you play will sound right. The 6th string becomes the issue when you need to play notes below the 7th fret in that tuning on it.
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Originally Posted by scotty_b
Drop D means you tune the low E string down to a D. All other notes will stay the same, so most of what you play will sound right. The 6th string becomes the issue when you need to play notes below the 7th fret in that tuning on it.
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Aah I see. If I only need to tune one string then it's not that bad. I thouht I had to change the tune of all the strings. So I'm supposed to tune the the low E string so that it sounds the same as the D string?
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Aah I see. If I only need to tune one string then it's not that bad. I thouht I had to change the tune of all the strings. So I'm supposed to tune the the low E string so that it sounds the same as the D string?
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It's good fun doing alternate tunings ragser here's a link that should help you along a bit 
http://guitar.about.com/library/week... Similar pages
Alternate tunings is halfway down the list, hope this helps.
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Aah I see. If I only need to tune one string then it's not that bad. I thouht I had to change the tune of all the strings. So I'm supposed to tune the the low E string so that it sounds the same as the D string?
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You are on the right track - but it should be an octave lower than the D string.
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well how i do is that you pluck the 12th fret on the low E and pluck the open d string and tune down the E to make it sound like the D
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Originally Posted by ragser
Canon Rock by jerryC is supposed to be played in dropped D which as far as I know is an alternate tuning which I don't know how to do. But when I started looking at the tabs on ultimate guitar it sounded OK with standard tuning as well (I was just trying it out a bit on my acoustic since my electric hasn't arrived yet) so are these tabs supposed to be played in dropped D or standard tuning? canon rock | Songs search @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
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I've just looked at the first tab on the linked page, and, as you can see, this is a standard tuning tab... You see that because the author wrote EADGBE next to the tab... I.e. the guy who wrote the tab had adapted it to standard tuning... 
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