Nitpitch

Bass Guitar tunings

The everyday pair ships with the app; the deeper detunes and the restrings live here.

Scan a code with your iPhone camera — or open the link — and Nitpitch offers the tuning: load it once, or keep it. Without the app, the link shows the same details you see here.

Ships in the app

These arrive with the app as ordinary presets. Deleted one? One scan brings it back — same name, same pitches.

Drop D

D1 A1 D2 G2

The low string down a step, matching drop-D guitars.

QR code: bass-guitar tuning “https://nitpitch.app/t#djF8YmFzcy1ndWl0YXJ8MjYsMzMsMzgsNDN8fHxEcm9wIEQ”

Half-step down

D♯1 G♯1 C♯2 F♯2

Everything down a semitone, for bands living a half step low.

QR code: bass-guitar tuning “https://nitpitch.app/t#djF8YmFzcy1ndWl0YXJ8MjcsMzIsMzcsNDJ8fHxIYWxmLXN0ZXAgZG93bg”

Lowered

Full step down

D1 G1 C2 F2

D G C F — standard, one whole step lower, matching a band in D standard.

QR code: bass-guitar tuning “https://nitpitch.app/t#djF8YmFzcy1ndWl0YXJ8MjYsMzEsMzYsNDF8fHxGdWxsIHN0ZXAgZG93bg”

Drop C

C1 G1 C2 F2

C G C F — full step down with the low string dropped to C, matching drop-C guitars. The floor of comfortable four-string detuning.

QR code: bass-guitar tuning “https://nitpitch.app/t#djF8YmFzcy1ndWl0YXJ8MjQsMzEsMzYsNDF8fHxEcm9wIEM”

Restrung

These want a different string set, not just slacker tuning — the honest cost of the range they buy.

BEAD

B0 E1 A1 D2

A five-string's low range on four strings: drop the G, add a heavy B, shift everything over. Needs the heavier set.

QR code: bass-guitar tuning “https://nitpitch.app/t#djF8YmFzcy1ndWl0YXJ8MjMsMjgsMzMsMzh8fHxCRUFE”

Tenor bass

A1 D2 G2 C3

A D G C — the low E traded for a high C. Stanley Clarke's register: chords and melody on top of the band, with a lighter set.

QR code: bass-guitar tuning “https://nitpitch.app/t#djF8YmFzcy1ndWl0YXJ8MzMsMzgsNDMsNDh8fHxUZW5vciBiYXNz”

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