TUNING GUIDE
Drop A guitar chords
Find practical Drop A chord shapes, identify chords, and create progressions without translating from E Standard.
Drop A tuning notes
From the lowest guitar string to the highest, Drop A is A E A D F♯ B. Drop A keeps the upper five strings in the same relationship as B Standard and lowers the sixth string one additional whole step.
Browse Drop A chord shapes →Identify a chord in Drop A
Select Drop A in the reverse chord finder and enter the exact strings and frets you are playing. Chordright calculates the sounding notes and recommends a conventional chord name.
Open the Drop A reverse chord finder →Build a Drop A chord progression
Generate a progression or build one manually, then move through playable voicings while every chord stays in Drop A tuning.
Create a Drop A progression →