drop D

noun

An alternate (scordatura) guitar tuning in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down ("dropped") from the usual E of standard tuning by one whole step, to D.

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Meanings

noundrop D (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAn alternate (scordatura) guitar tuning in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down ("dropped") from the usual E of standard tuning by one whole step, to D.
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