giggsy
And this is my latest Drop D favourite
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LooneyAtTheGate
'Killing in the Name' was the song that introduced me to Drop-D. I remember the ecstacy of realizing i could now play power chords with ONE FINGER! ? ?
Squonk
These are all good stuff
First time I have heard Outshine, Killing in the Name, Why pt 2. It's Drop D when I get home
henrebotha
This might make me a terrible person, but one of my favourite drop D riffs of all time is one by my band. (For what it's worth, I didn't write it...) It's a ~90 bpm alt-metal pedal riff in the Ukrainian minor scale... god I could just about wet myself with excitement every time we get to that part.
I have an unmixed recording (with some slight timing issues) at home. I just might post a little snippet later.
studmissile
Heart of Texas by Billy Joe Shaver, with Eddie Shaver on Guitar, great drop d solo.
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Greg
So many to choose from!
I'll add this to the pile:
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The riff from 1:13 is just what Tool and drop-D are MADE of!
Psean
Greg wrote:
So many to choose from!
I'll add this to the pile:
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The riff from 1:13 is just what Tool and drop-D are MADE of!
Another AWESOME one!
Psean
studmissile wrote:
Heart of Texas by Billy Joe Shaver, with Eddie Shaver on Guitar, great drop d solo.
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Cool to have another different style.
Greg
Psean wrote:
Pretty sure this is Drop D:
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YES!! AAAAAAAAHHHH!! I miss playing heavy shit...
Psean
Greg wrote:
Psean wrote:
Pretty sure this is Drop D:
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YES!! AAAAAAAAHHHH!! I miss playing heavy shit...
Don't get much heavier than this kind of stuff IMO. This is heavy in it's truest sense - Sabbath, Melvins, Kyuss.
BVG
Don't forget about this one:
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Pantera - WALK ?
Danny-B
Oh yes. I listen to Walk whenever I clean my kitchen. Good cleaning music.
DonovanB
I've got a few to add...
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and some older school
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We used to play the chain in a cover band I was in. So much fun.
Sleazyd
Trivium - Washing Me Away in the Tides or Blinding Tears will Break the Sky
Psean
Donovan Banks wrote:
I've got a few to add...
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Cool riffs!
joealien22
Another different one:
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shaunf
Alter Bridge - Rise Today. Here's Myles and Slash playing it:
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Alter Bridge - Find the Real
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Slash - Watch This
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Bob-Dubery
Drop D was this mysterious thing to me for years. I knew it was there, knew how to tune a guitar to it but couldn't figure out why you'd do that or how you'd play the darn thing once you had.
Then I had a moment when the scales fell from my eyes as if by magic! I bought a DVD of John Hiatt performing live in Texas. His opening number was a song of his that I liked (Icy Blue Heart) and could ALMOST play, but not quite and for reasons that weren't clear to me.
So I'm watching this DVD and he starts playing around the D chord, which I had figured out, and then goes to a shape I don't recognise. Then a voice in my head (I'm pretty sure it was my own voice) said "if the 6 string was flattened a whole tone then that would be a G he just played" and suddenly I understood a whole lot about drop D and I found I could play that song. Whoohoo!
The best song ever in drop D? Beeswing, which I think must be one of the best songs ever in any tuning (though more because of the lyric and the story telling and the heart-tugging ending than the fact that it's in drop D and you can nearly, but not quite, play it in regular tuning and you can nearly, but not quite, play it with one of those Shubb "drop-D" capos).
I also like Lyle Lovett's Natural Forces and, of course, John Hiatt's Icy Blue Heart.
Malkav
Drop D is not something you often see Mr Petrucci in, but when he's in it he does it well ?
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Michael-Oberholzer
Kings X - Dogman (OK its Drop D flat ?)
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