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Drop tunings and theory, technique, gear and news — everything that goes into playing heavy. Every guide opens the fretboard map set up and ready to play.
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News
Guitar Gear News 2026: The Releases That Matter for Low-Tuned Players
The 2026 launches worth knowing if you play in Drop tunings: new modelers, captures, tightening pedals, baritones and FRFR speakers.
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News
Metalcore, Djent and Thall Releases in Autumn 2026: Albums, EPs and Singles
New metalcore, djent and thall releases in autumn 2026: Imminence, Wage War, HALF ME and Polyphia, the new bands to watch and the calendar through November.
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Theory
Drop and Lower Tunings: What Changes on the Fretboard and What Stays the Same
What changes on the fretboard when you tune a guitar lower: drop D, C, B and A, one-finger power chords, shifted shapes, lost tension and string gauges, with the numbers worked out.
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Guitars
Baritone vs Multiscale vs 7-String: Which Guitar for Low Tunings?
Three ways to play low without a floppy low string. How baritone, multiscale and 7-string guitars differ, and which one fits how you play.
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Modelers
Captures, Profiles and Models: How Modern Amp Modelers Copy an Amp
Component modeling, Kemper profiling, Neural Capture, TONEX and NAM explained in plain words, with what each approach is good and bad at.
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Guitars
How to Choose a Guitar for Drop Tunings: Scale Length, Strings and Pickups
What actually matters in a guitar for Drop C, Drop B and lower: scale length, string gauge, number of strings, pickups and setup.
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Analog gear
Pedal Order for Drop Tunings: Building an Analog Board for Metal
The pedal order that works for heavy music in low tunings, from tuner and gate to boost, loop effects and power, with the reasons behind each position.
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Exercises
Five Right-Hand Exercises for Drop-Tuned Riffs
Palm mutes, chugs, gallops, alternate picking and tremolo picking: five picking-hand exercises that make low-tuned riffs tight, each with a link to practise it.
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Amps
How to Get a Tight High-Gain Tone in Drop Tunings
Why low tunings turn to mud at high gain and how to fix it: less gain, an overdrive boost, a noise gate, a high-pass filter and the right right hand.
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Tunings
Drop C Tuning: Notes, Power Chords and the Scales to Learn First
What Drop C is (C G C F A D), how to tune to it, why power chords become one-finger shapes, and which scales to practise first on the fretboard.
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