Talk:Dropped A tuning

I was just wondering, what song does Breaking Benjamin play in Dropped A? jndietz 17:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

I'm fairly certain that Korn haven't used drop A. Most of thier catalog is on 7 strings tuned one step down to ADGCFAD not a 6 string tuned down to A. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.158.19.158 (talk) 00:29, 28 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Can't find anything about them mysterious Z-Strings anywhere. Lowman1984 (talk) 14:17, 10 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

I'm fairly certain that Dragonforce haven't used drop A in that song, "Three Hammers". Sounds more like B-flat tuning. I tried to get rid of that a few times a long time ago, but it keeps getting reverted.118.107.237.10 (talk) 02:51, 31 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi, there. I wish to note that pretty much EVERY "drop tuning" article ought to be purged. They cannot even achieve consistent naming: Dropped A tuning, Drop B tuning, Drop C tuning. They are all just needless takeoffs of Drop D tuning.

As with the case at hand, there's a huge long list of fanboy trivia, almost entirely unsourced. Per the citations needed header,

Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

What little remains is largely fansite-type essayism, and definitely not suitable for an encyclopedic article. Per the original research header,

Statements consisting only of original research should be removed.

Once any such removals are made, the unsourced material CANNOT simply be reverted back without a clear and credible citation indicating its source.

And the only reason that Drop D tuning is any better than its bastards is that "drop-D" has been in real-world use for centuries as a way of easily tweaking standard EADGBE guitar tuning. (Lowering the standard tuning — whether via scale length or more courses or thicker strings — then "dropping" the lowest string a full tone IS NOT ENOUGH to make it somehow "a thing.") That article, though lacking the Notables listings of fancruft, is almost entirely original research pedantry stuffed with jargon.

Altogether, all these "articles" could be packed easily back into Guitar tunings. And don't let me start ranting about Open A tuning and its siblings…
Weeb Dingle (talk) 01:58, 3 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

Whenever I type in Dropped A tuning, it redirects me to the B tuning page. Why was this page deleted? 2600:1006:B142:F2A1:F0CA:A9DF:DD7:AF0D (talk) 22:42, 30 November 2021 (UTC)Reply