How To Tune To C#

[CroCoperson1]

Little beginners tip.

Get the 6 string C# tuned in.

Play the fifth fret on the 6th string and with the next string (5th string) play it open.

In other words: tune the fifth string to the fifth fret of the sixth string. The fourth string to the fifth fret of the fifth string. The third string to the fifth fret of the fourth string. The SECOND* string to the FOURTH* fret of the third string. The first string to the fifth fret of the second string.

You will know when its out of tune.

[marbleheadband]

dude thanks.....i need this for sabbath bloody sabbath cause i'm fuckin tone deaf from years of too much volume on the marshalls.......kids dont play loud you get tinnitus & then cant tell e from d..... no more.......a no more....a no more.....

[cuvautoofficial]

Thank you so much!

[hto1971]

im have my guitar set up for this tuning had some one tell me to for my voice they was right butt i need have the guitar set for that wht gauge do you say to use i play acc guitar

[ctcon77]

duude i whas looking at programming who show such a cool guitar on the video! xD

[itsdave10001]

snapped a string doing this :(

[GuitarGirllll]

Thank you! :D

[xXnecneoXx]

thank you

[Cavisbak28]

b- 0:34

[christvalentine31]

You helped me out so much! Thank you heaps...this is exactly what I needed!

[MrWB21]

Thank You

[Nivlektehfudger]

You're f*ckin sweet bro... thanks a ton

[burnthairturd]

Thanks a million Jordan!!! This helped me to tune my 7 string for a Deftones song. My tuner is no help when tuning this low for some reason.

[cejason]

@burnthairturd is it a chromatic tuner? if not, you need one or it will only regester as D-E standard

[eobo1]

AWESOME!!! thanx soo much

[alexisavenged7x]

ANYONE ELSE PLAYING BTBAM??? CUS I AMMMM!! :D

[Hotmb23]

@Silverblood9  FUCK YEAH!

[alopez3202]

good for some pantera songs (Floods)

[unknown9109]

Thanks man



[06prettyinpink]

i followed this. but my guitar still sounds out of tune! eeerr!

[cvs333]

@06prettyinpink when tuning down to a low tuning sometimes the guitar strings wants to stay at higher. i just keep tuning the strings back down until the kinda "get used" to the lower tuning.

[CroCoperson1]

@06prettyinpink yes i think the second string is a little off

[NiKc105]

ty man :)

[straightedgecyndylou]

Super helpful! Thanks(:

[FacelessSyrup]

thanks for the help :D

[shitforbrains121]

thanks a lot man, now im gonna learn some fuckin black sabbath!

[DominekeBear]

Hell Nah, My Nigga Token. Great Video Though Man.

[Silverblood9]

Thanks man! CHEVELLE FTW!

[johnbmcc6063]

Thanks Jordan but I got confused because I searched for drop C# can you make a id for that? This vid was a good help to thanks

[ulver01]

it si helpful so i can play my bolt thrower!

[3PEEPSproduction]

great, thanks

[bellion028]

gr8 vid man, btw is that a ltd mh-50?

[XFalseGermanX]

@bellion028 Thx dude. It's an Epiphone Goth G400.

[JDRUMNYC]

@XFalseGermanX beautiful guitar man.

[comidaseldogor]

@XFalseGermanX dude i got so0o0o0o0 fuckin excited when i saw your guitar........ i got it too, and must i say it isn't common

[aliknott123]

i use this video all the time too tune to c sharp :P

[drexkoo]

Master of Reality! oh jeah

[Bigboss1432Lol]

wow, you got a SG, your lucky, I wanna get the 500$ one, the Tony Iommi one.

[scipfish]

a great help cheers m8

[YTKimi]

YOOOU HAAVE THEEE SAAAME GUIITAAARRR AS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[jedillama9]

Thanks bro

[Nightguitarr]

now i can play the plague (as i lay dying) THANKS DUDE

[MrCookies707]

Awesome

[MrElken]

on my tuner it just says C and D and other tunes but do i have to tune so the C# Shows on the tuner?

[Heemsah1]

I tuned my guitar to exactly what yours sounds like then attempted System of a Down's BYOB, which is in C#, but my playing doesn't sound anything like the original. What did I do wrong?

[ttyylleerr111]

@Heemsah1 the songs you are trying to play are not C#, its dropped C#

[CAMTRON21]

now i can learn Marianas trench. Thanks. clean simple and to the point.

[jedimastergarcia87]

You got anything on standard drop c tuning? Thanks.

[MissCleo]

thank you

[wHildcHilD100]

ahhh i hate it when people call it G# its Ab!!!!! not to be an asshole Ab is like proper way to say it or something i know they're the same

[Foulkefuntimemovies]

VVVVVV Spam and fag and tardballs

[SeGaSaTuRn1994]

dont tune ur guitar up and down back and forward from standard tuning to C# becuase it will do damage to your guitars truss rod or neck over short time or litrally warp the guitars neck if u want to be playing in Drop C# and D# notes buy a heavy metal Floyd Rose Guitar and just set it and keep it set to C# that way u dont need to kep detuning ur normal guitar belive me it will damage a normal guitar if u keep doing it with tention on and off all the time

[juva932]

hey bro thanks a lot! i needed to tune down to C#so i could play "3 Libras" from A Perfect Circle, couldn't tune well with other online tuners, finally made it thanks to ur video!

[Aenigmaa]

Thanks for uploading this video! I needed to tune down to C# so I could play "Pallar Anders Visa" from In flames, but my tuner had gone nuts... Thank the god of metal for youtube!

[bubbles1062]

THANK YOU!

[lorenzovegar]

Thanks dude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[pokemon826]

how did i break a string going down..?

[james00518]

drop C# dude. >.<

[1synystermofo]

What the fuck strings are you using? They sound thick as hell.

[TACOCHEESESAUCE]

now i can play homicidal retribution

[kennywarp]

epiphone sg tony iommi custom???'

[jackzabbaththeband]

@kennywarp i know it

i could tell

[Zoarial92]

something that should be pointed out and probably already has been, the tuning in this video is DROP C#, not C#, yes, they are very different things

[NoktemAeternus]

@Zoarial92 no hes right look it up

[YetHaterLover]

now i can play BYOB

[MetalGootar]

ur black and u play metal guitar.....thats not even gangster its just plain fucking awesome

[Warrior9983]

19 Peoples Mouse Must Be Messed Up So The Picked The Dislike Button

[1xDRCx]

To make this simple, start off in standard tuning. tune your guitar a half step down. to do this play the high e string. now on the b string find teh same not that the e string is. move this one fret towards the headstock and tune the high e to this note. do this with all 6 strings. now that your in half step down, tune your Eb string to the same note as the Db(C#) string, one octave down, now do the fifth fret tuning method. play the fifth fret of thickest string (now C#) tune the Ab to this.

[cleanloader]

thank you so much! i've been trying to play songs by tool and a perfect circle by ear, but i knew my tuning was wrong. thank you! ur the man!

[00stevenT]

very useful

[xAcidPrisimx]

What would be the best strings for lead? 10s or 11s?

[MrRainManthemaster]

@xAcidPrisimx i have 12s and they work awesome! i'm in a band

[giolessthan3]

thank you so much :D

this helped a lot

[dfhgjhsdkdkisdksjrep]

Thanks a lot, dude.

This'll help make that Impetigo cover sound good. :D

[Warrior9983]

Now I Can Play Snuff - Slipknot

[peppers80]

PPl, I f you broke a String, use thicker one's to play Below-Standard songs.

[ChristianLanley]

does anyone know if this is the tuning that Between the Buried & Me plays in?

[tomosarus]

I BROKE A STRING TOO!! wtf?? how is this happning ?

[shaunhatesyou]

I'm always seeing comments on videos saying people broke a string... how does that happen while tuning DOWN from standard?

[ry13eee]

@shaunhatesyou I tuned UP from drop A :P

[MrMethadrine]

@shaunhatesyou it happens when ur string r old or crappy installed to a floyd rose..

[pushthetempo26]

@shaunhatesyou

the only reason for that is when you have guitar with tremolo system such as floyd rose, and while tuning down some strings brakes because of tremolo's springs. first of all, before tuning down from standart you have to decrease strain of tremolo's springs. it's necessary cuz while tuning down you decrease strain on first string and it is increases the strain on others but tremolo pulls all strings up and increases strain.

[Xnothinbetter2dewX]

@shaunhatesyou

id say people are tuning down starting with a low E and they have floating tremolos...by doing that they'll create tension on the other strings if its floating tremolo and that will snap a higher string..thats the only way i can figure haha

[1xDRCx]

@shaunhatesyou it actually happens a lot. when your tuning down, and the guitar nut isn't lubricated, strings will break. Because when you tune down, the string from the nut up to the headstock gets less tension,but because the nut isn't lubricated the string tension between the nut and the bridge, still stays high. At somepoint the tension overcomes the friction of the nut, and the string tries to equalise tension by snaping towards the headstock, this breaks the string.

[xHighPotencyx]

@shaunhatesyou Anything subjected to sudden changes in the forces acting upon it are liable to break. There are also factors like the string may get caught on a rough spot and worn down and eventually broken.

[SandyRow23x3]

@shaunhatesyou hey man it happens. once i was gonna play Chelsea Smile, which is in A# and broke a string tuning...

[PhantomAlxa99]

@shaunhatesyou That happened to me, I was tuning down to a C#, and I broke my B string.

[rob127s125]

@shaunhatesyou yea ive done that before haha no idea HOW it breaks from tuning down but it did :/ gay ass string lol

[TheLifestream96]

@shaunhatesyou The tension of your neck changes

[Clicheboards4ever]

@shaunhatesyou 1) shit tremolo 2) the higher string can break on a (cheap) guitar while tuning down 3) maybe they are to dumb and tune higher :)

[Rockersrule1011]

@shaunhatesyou That has actually happened to my guitar. It's true.

[Nickhead87]

@shaunhatesyou

The only way to break a string would be that they're either really old and weak or maybe there's a rough spot on the tuning post, the bridge saddle, etc. It has been so long since I've broken any strings in any tuning. I change my strings kind of often, though. I love the sound and feel of a fresh set of strings. I had someone ask me if I break strings because I use 1 to 1.5 mm picks, lol. And the answer is NO.

[gtrtuben]

@shaunhatesyou I JUST DID IT!

[berserker355]

@shaunhatesyou I've done it plenty of times tuning down from E standard. It's mostly always the high E string that breaks though. It royally pisses me off

[robertjm194]

@shaunhatesyou it happened to me twice, in a row and i have no idea how

[GuitARPlayr100]

@shaunhatesyou most of the time its because of how many times you have tuned it, the string starts getting weak after a while so even if you are tuning down from standard or whatever it will snap, i've had it happen to me 3 or 4 times tuning my B.C. Rich down to Drop C

[Cannedmeat420]

Try this C# tuning.

C# // A // c# // g# // a // e

Its really odd at first, but if ya mess around with it for a lil while you can make some good music. One of my favorite tunings cuz it has a very spacey and nostalgic feel.

[connercwalkyo]

thank you so fuckin much bro i couldnt find this anywhere haha

[MrPayneful]

is this C# or drop C#? please specify TY :)

[1synystermofo]

@MrPayneful Drop C#

[1synystermofo]

@MrPayneful Wait nevermind. C# I think

[1synystermofo]

@MrPayneful Yep, I was right the first time. It's drop C#

[Cushniee]

sorry but how is this a tutorial?

[Inhailedyeti]

1) this is not C# because C# is what disturbed plays in and it doens't match up and 2)sadly, i broke my string :(

[StarflareLegionaire]

@Inhailedyeti No, this is C# tuning

Positive

[alexisavenged7x]

@Inhailedyeti Your probably thinking of Drop C#, which would be be all the strings one half step down and then the low E one step down from there. like drop D, but a half step lower. this is C# standard.

[Nightguitarr]

@alexisavenged7x yeah this is different C# man

[Rysee88]

Thanks dude

[SpoonfullofSandrock]

Thanks man.

[isitunez]

now i can play behemoth and dying fetus

[marcpunk247]

can you tune using electric tuner c#?

[MikeyboyMovies]

thank you so much, now i can play sabbath's into the void

[MGMT1580]

I now can play Cult By Slayer!!!

[Vazqo182]

thanks a lot

[LionMaster09]

duuude niiiice vid, simple and easy

two thumbs up.

and people its c sharp, i heard him clearly all the way, and yeahmany bands use this

[CancerBatsBSOD]

now i can play architects

[Supermassivebangbang]

thanks but your guitars tuning sounds a little off. Maybe i'm just picky but yeah its annoys me a little...

[jayjayishere07]

c# g# c# f# a# d#

[marcblaak]

thnx dude

[hotmonkeypunk]

wtf is this?

[ku62jo62]

@hotmonkeypunk go away

[Samdbowman]

NOW I CAN PLAY BLOODLINE AND DESCIPLE BY SLAYER

[grassvalleystudios]

Isn't Drop C# Just Drop D half step down?

C# Ab Db Gb Bb Eb?

Whereas Drop C (CGCFAD) Is a a step down?

[Antisaint46]

Yes because C# is supposed to be half a step down on the other strings with the 6th being the C#

[jayjayishere07]

@grassvalleystudios  agree

[MultiJeffthomas]

thanks

[myguitar856]

is this really c#? bc when i played it sounded like drop c im jus wondering

[chineseEMOKID]

now i can play misry business

[alexkooy]

@chineseEMOKID MIsery business is in DROP C on C sharp

[nekku19]

@chineseEMOKID Hahaha. Made my day.

[XxKunsangxX]

@chineseEMOKID Thts Drop D...

[Pk403]

@chineseEMOKID LOL i'm learning misery business now and im chinese too (lol)

[minicujo93]

thanks that was a great help

[Sazmunky]

NOW I CAN PLAY DEFTONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[04GUITARPLAYER04]

Is this drop c# tuning?

[SLIPKNOT4747]

@04GUITARPLAYER04 there are different ways you can do it, but this is one of them

[Samdbowman]

thanks dude it really helped

[brendanollie]

thank you

[Arkanalegion000]

thanks for posting

[midevil656]

Why would people need to know how to do this? You just get a tuner, and tune the guitar down 3 steps on each string... how stupid are you people?

[TobyTheMetalHead]

@midevil656 Its actually 1 and a half steps down, Not every body has a tuner.

[midevil656]

@TobyTheMetalHead Oh I meant notes, like E-Eb, Eb- D, D-C#.

[Sazmunky]

@midevil656

in case we dont have a tuner....? : /

and if this video isnt needed how are u on here?

[mattman3691]

Thank u soo much for putting this up i really needed it to play slipknot snuff with my band thank u some much man

[silvereality]

thank you!!!!!!! awe to your wonder

[dDitty0yeah]

Hey thanks that was very helpful.

[yelly2tight]

thanks man now i can play my favorite song

[rynevenyr]

hell yeah thanks man. ive been trying to figure out how to tune like that all day.

[TitiuManga]

bridge pickup, please?

[obxsurfer21]

thanks boss

[Visi0nsRDeadly]

hehe comment......uhh... comment some more lol cool nice btw thanx

[BuZter87]

thanks mate :)

[bcrichchris14]

is there a difference between C# and C# standard?

[slipknotman012345678]

are u doing C# Standard??

[freerunner125]

thanks

the most easy to follow vid for this tuning

great

[MrCheeser124]

Thanks much!

[Metallicafan087]

dude thanks alot..i tried using tuners and fret tuning..but yours was perfect and i tuned my guitar like yours in like half a minute..thanks so much :D

[SOADVSSOAD]

Thanks Dude That Helped Me Big Time!

[anationsleeps]

decapitated - "day 69"

[FlufyBunniez]

that helped a lot. I used my chromatic tuner though. hehehehe

[Visi0nsRDeadly]

@FlufyBunniez you did?? can u tell me how I been trying to do it with a tuner but cant ;(

[lieutantjohn]

Kool thanks man help alot

[28bottlesL8r]

Thank you, nice guitar!

[Vorpalwinz]

great vid man thanks, needed this to play The Outsider by APC :D

[dudefuckthisshit]

Two things to say. One, if you can't figure out how to turn your tuning machine down to match the pitch. You shouldn't be playing an instrument. Second, thanks, just needed to make sure it full in tune because I was sort of guessing when I tuned in to Standard.

[und34rtak34r]

dude you dont show HOW to do it, your just saying "oh yea this is what c# sounds like" not really helpful to me :(

[frankiebob1191]

Um, what else is there to explain?

Unless you mean what notes are in C# Standard Tuning.

Well they are (low to high) C# F# B E G# C#.

Two ways to tune your guitar.

1. Use a chromatic tuner and tune each string by turning the machine heads at the end of the neck until you arrive at the correct note/pitch for each string. Make sure not to go too high!

[und34rtak34r]

ye thats wot i needed to hear thakns dude :) 5/5

[frankiebob1191]

2. Tune the 6th (lowest) string to C# on another instrument or a song u know has a C# drone. After that, you play the 5th fret of that string and make sure your "A" string matches that pitch.

1st string = 5th fret 2nd string

2nd string = 4th fret 3rd string

3rd string = 5th fret 4th string

4th string = 5th fret 5th string

5th string = 5th fret 6th string

6th string = two octaves lower than 1st

this only applies to standard tunings (such as D standard, E standard, C# standard, etc.)

[seannathen]

thanks man awesome ....lookin 4 tht 4 ages u saved me

[Catmanthefirst]

aww thnx man best vid ever!! xD