https://lowforge.app/blog/ Drop tunings and theory, technique, gear and news for heavy guitar. en Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lowforge.app/blog/drop-lower-tunings-what-changes-on-fretboard/ https://lowforge.app/blog/drop-lower-tunings-what-changes-on-fretboard/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://lowforge.app/blog/metalcore-djent-thall-releases-2026/ https://lowforge.app/blog/metalcore-djent-thall-releases-2026/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://lowforge.app/blog/baritone-vs-multiscale-vs-7-string/ https://lowforge.app/blog/baritone-vs-multiscale-vs-7-string/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://lowforge.app/blog/captures-profiles-models-explained/ https://lowforge.app/blog/captures-profiles-models-explained/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Component modeling, Kemper profiling, Neural Capture, TONEX and NAM explained in plain words, with what each approach is good and bad at. https://lowforge.app/blog/choose-guitar-for-drop-tunings/ https://lowforge.app/blog/choose-guitar-for-drop-tunings/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 What actually matters in a guitar for Drop C, Drop B and lower: scale length, string gauge, number of strings, pickups and a proper setup. https://lowforge.app/blog/guitar-gear-news-2026/ https://lowforge.app/blog/guitar-gear-news-2026/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The 2026 launches worth knowing if you play in Drop tunings: new modelers, captures, tightening pedals, baritones and FRFR speakers. https://lowforge.app/blog/pedal-order-for-drop-tunings/ https://lowforge.app/blog/pedal-order-for-drop-tunings/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://lowforge.app/blog/right-hand-exercises-drop-riffs/ https://lowforge.app/blog/right-hand-exercises-drop-riffs/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://lowforge.app/blog/tight-high-gain-drop-tunings/ https://lowforge.app/blog/tight-high-gain-drop-tunings/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://lowforge.app/blog/drop-c-tuning-notes-power-chords-scales/ https://lowforge.app/blog/drop-c-tuning-notes-power-chords-scales/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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.