How to Tune a Guitar Down a Half Step

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Guitar
• Chromatic tuner

1. 1
   Use your chromatic tuner to tune your guitar to Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb. A normal guitar is tuned E A D G B E. Play your open strings and tune them down one by one until you reach the desired lowered note.
   
2. 2
   Tune by ear if you don't have a chromatic tuner. Play the sixth fret of your fifth string and tune your low E string to match the fretted note. When in tune, your sixth string should be one octave lower than the sixth fret of the fifth string.
   
3. 3
   Continue to tune your guitar in the standard way once your low E string is in tune. Fret the fifth string of your low E and match the open fifth string of your guitar to the fretted note. Continue this process up each new string. The only exception to this rule in standard tuning is the B string. To tune the B string, fret the fourth string of the prior string instead of the fifth.
   
4. 4
   Check your tuning again.