Drop tunings scale/finger practice.

[Lindsey]

Do you know any practice exercises for drop tunings?
I'm mostly looking for scale exercises.

My guitar often is in a drop tuning, it holds me back a bit with basic practice but Always practicing in a standart tuning isn't the best either.

 

[Calvin Phillips]

I heard syn say he records pretty much every solo in e standard.

But to answer your question if it's just drop.. remember 1at and 3st are literally the same pattern. You dont need to remember anything else but that. Drop tuning makes it easy. Or you can always remember to go 2 to the right in the 1st string but it's just easier to say 1st and 3rd.

Great for those build ups where you start on 3rd syring then hammer into the main riff on the 1st string. Then the lead takes the high e. Cliche ftw!

 

[idssdi]

If you're in drop D just move all the notes on the low d string up 2 frets

 

[Lindsey]

I heard syn say he records pretty much every solo in e standard.

But to answer your question if it's just drop.. remember 1at and 3st are literally the same pattern. You dont need to remember anything else but that. Drop tuning makes it easy. Or you can always remember to go 2 to the right in the 1st string but it's just easier to say 1st and 3rd.

Great for those build ups where you start on 3rd syring then hammer into the main riff on the 1st string. Then the lead takes the high e. Cliche ftw!

I know all the notes but I haven't found a pattern for scales I like yet. It's great to practice with an open string but that's limited too.
Do you have an example for the last thing you mentioned? I'm not familiar with cliché stuff haha.

 

[Calvin Phillips]

Every scale follows the exact same pattern so if you find a comfort zone you can play around it easily with different scales. Just gotta get used to knowing how far for each chord you shift

No.. I'm not there yet either. I can change between 2 or maybe 3 scales right now. Anymore and theres too much thinking. But then again do you really need more then 3? Or even 2. All I cam say is find your comfort spot. Then find the scales that fit into that comfort spot. Or find another area where you can play that same lick but in a different key. Once you figure out how to shift that around your playing will become that much easier for you.

 

[Calvin Phillips]

Example.


The first 4 reps are on middle c. He then repeats it again but on low c (this is drop c i believe) literally the same riff just down an octave. In this example you dont have a lead. But how would you mix.one in? Maybe the lead could play some arpeggios relating to the notes in the main riff.. maybe tremolo pick the notes. Point is using the same notes to follow the melody. Sometimes it's that easy to create a riff.

 

[Lindsey]

Example.


The first 4 reps are on middle c. He then repeats it again but on low c (this is drop c i believe) literally the same riff just down an octave. In this example you dont have a lead. But how would you mix.one in? Maybe the lead could play some arpeggios relating to the notes in the main riff.. maybe tremolo pick the notes. Point is using the same notes to follow the melody. Sometimes it's that easy to create a riff.

Thanks!

 

[Edward John]

If you have to drop tune to make a riff sound great, then maybe you should have written a better riff.
-Ghandi

 

[Adin Shepherd]

If you have to drop tune to make a riff sound great, then maybe you should have written a better riff.
-Ghandi

You hear that Syn? Ghandi says you need to write better riffs!

 

[Edward John]

You hear that Syn? Ghandi says you need to write better riffs!

Syn does record everything in Standard right enough.