[J. Hayes]

I'd venture to say that there are probably no guitarists who play with horn sections that tune below standard. IMO if you're going to play guitar you should be able to play any song or chord progression you know in any key if you have any hope of becoming a well rounded guitarist. I do have one guitar that I tune down (A Les Paul) but it's tuned a whole tone flat so it's
D G C F A D low to high. It's only because of working some with a singer who likes to do Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" in G so I have to do the opening low string riff usually done in E in D instead. I worked it out in dropped D but the fingering used doesn't sound as good as a lower tuned guitar. I do an occasional Country or Yacht Club gig with a band which has a trumpet, sax, and trombone but for that my guitar's always tuned standard..........JH in va.