how to write lifts and drop tunings so we're going to keep it simple and just tune to drop D here so the way you do that is your guitar is tuned to normal guitar tuning except for the load it's tuned to D instead of e so the trilling will be D a D a G a B and E so the biggest difference with playing in drop tuning is that you can play riffs on the same fret on your two bottom strings because we're now tuned through a perfect fifth literally you need to play two frets apart to get that sound but when you're in drop truly you can play the same fret and it will sound good so that's the first thing so the let's I want to put a couple of ways of doing that so we're just going to play open bottom three strings now then we're going to play those three strings on the sixth fret so as you see from that example immediately that makes life simple for you you can play faster one and you can just use one finger for each fret and play it almost as a lead line instead of playing it as in as you would normally have to do it so next thing we want to look at is octaves so again normally you have to pay octaves on the low E string and the D string two frets apart but could women drop Trinity play the same threat but just skip a string and it will give you an octave a self-exam feel paying a lot to this note you just play here now we go in our arsenal Fitz and doctors so we're playing octaves as well as playing it as in you can play a single note and that's just an example play single note but we're going to stop it instead of that Leah so again are we kidding there's no with this finger and again that's octaves also on octaves we can play the same riff on the bottom string and on the D string it will sound good because it's an octave so you can just play so whether you're playing on the bottom string you can play on the first string and it'll sound good because it's an octave so the next trick you can use is playing the same pattern on the bottom two strings because it's going to be a perfect fifth apart and it makes it sound good so for example that little thing I was doing that which is it's just a 1013 1013 1013 10 so for example you could do because they're perfect fifth then that's really going to sound good so let's talk about thirds I would avoid playing thirds using the bottom string and the a string because you need a stretch like that got five there's a minor third for you there's a major third but who uses major thirds in metal so again five and one that give you a third so I'll avoid that but what I would suggest is use your thirds on your a in your D string so third on them on those two strings would be two frets behind so that's a minor third so got mine fine sweetie they give you your minor third and because back open low string you can pay the three together that was a mega said I must have got a bit confused they're using the major third next up we've got fourths so a fourth is when you pay a note on the low E string and then of two frets back on the next string so example so what pain that is fine and sweet okay so all the other strings it would be the same friend but on the bottom two it'll be two friends behind so in drop tunings chromatics are a lot easier to use so because we only have to play two friends or two strings with one finger makes it a lot easier to play chromatic if you plan that normally it makes it a lot easier when you have to use two fingers instead of just one what are the other benefits of lying riffs in drop tunings is that you can go from playing open to threat it a lot easier if you only having to use one finger for example there over than that little part where I was paying out the 12 13 or 13 12 whatever it was I was doing I'm playing an open notes in between every note it just won't be able to do that as easily if you're playing in standard tuning so you can play into cause up all that a lot harder to play on sounder tuning because I'm only happen to use one finger I'm both for those strings one of the other benefits of playing in drop tunings it's because your first string is the opportunity of your low string you can use your a string or whatever trimming you've got peaking use your a string to create harmonies and it will always work here so let's play we're going to play this note the open D string we're going to play that open throughout here so we've got you so just works because that's that note is the octave of that so it's always going to work in harmonies so you just need to pick the harmonies this is work from the harmonies that you want and to play with D for example if you wanted minor third you got there if you want me fourth G etc etc so it leaves it open for you to create a lot more interesting harmonies by using your open middle D string and that's how you use drop tunings to write heavy metal riffs