Post your favourite Drop D riff/song

Jack-Flash-Jr · 2012-11-02T10:38:07+00:00

Because it's International Drop D Day! =

Post your favourite Drop D riff/song

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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Chocklit_Thunda

My automatic drop D go to song is "This Time" by Jonathan Rhys Meyers
From August Rush

singemonkey

http://grooveshark.com/s/Ten+Years+Gone/4sc128?src=5

Zeppelin. Ten years gone.

Psean

singemonkey wrote: http://grooveshark.com/s/Ten+Years+Gone/4sc128?src=5

Zeppelin. Ten years gone.

Another Zeppelin one ?

There are quite a few songs on this list that I didn't realise were drop-d. I'd always associated it with alternative rock stuff from the late 80's and onwards (although I had heard about classical guitarists using it).
Cool to hear the tuning in a different context.

Bob-Dubery

Psean wrote:
singemonkey wrote: http://grooveshark.com/s/Ten+Years+Gone/4sc128?src=5

Zeppelin. Ten years gone.
Another Zeppelin one ?

There are quite a few songs on this list that I didn't realise were drop-d. I'd always associated it with alternative rock stuff from the late 80's and onwards (although I had heard about classical guitarists using it).
Cool to hear the tuning in a different context.

Jimmy Page was using non-standard tunings ~~from the very first Led Zep album, and possibly before~~ [edit]with the Yardbirds by 1967 if not before [/edit]. He used DADGAD for Black Mountain Side. Stephen Stills was using non-standard tunings (famously EEEEBE) back in the 60s. Keith Richards learned open-G from Ry Cooder back in the 60s, and that tuning wasn't new then.

The origins of many of these tunings are murky, but DADGAD can fairly reliably be traced back to the late Davy Graham.

chrisbark

Think this was the first song I learned in Drop D

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This was the sh*t when I was in high school (Drop Db ?)

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And this was probably the last metal song I tried to learn (altho the speed LOG play is ridiculous)

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Jack-Flash-Jr

+1 chrisbark That's a great song off Around The Fur (which also has one of my favourite album covers).

Psean

X-rated Bob wrote:
Psean wrote:
singemonkey wrote: http://grooveshark.com/s/Ten+Years+Gone/4sc128?src=5

Zeppelin. Ten years gone.
Another Zeppelin one ?

There are quite a few songs on this list that I didn't realise were drop-d. I'd always associated it with alternative rock stuff from the late 80's and onwards (although I had heard about classical guitarists using it).
Cool to hear the tuning in a different context.
Jimmy Page was using non-standard tunings ~~from the very first Led Zep album, and possibly before~~ [edit]with the Yardbirds by 1967 if not before [/edit]. He used DADGAD for Black Mountain Side. Stephen Stills was using non-standard tunings (famously EEEEBE) back in the 60s. Keith Richards learned open-G from Ry Cooder back in the 60s, and that tuning wasn't new then.

The origins of many of these tunings are murky, but DADGAD can fairly reliably be traced back to the late Davy Graham.

Yeah, I've long known about alternate tunings in general (especially Jimmy Page's use of DADGAD among others and and Keef's use of Open G - I was always under the impression that he picked it up from the Everly Brothers though) but Drop-d in particular was one that for me was associated with a specific era and style.

Bob-Dubery

Psean wrote: Yeah, I've long known about alternate tunings in general (especially Jimmy Page's use of DADGAD among others and and Keef's use of Open G - I was always under the impression that he picked it up from the Everly Brothers though) but Drop-d in particular was one that for me was associated with a specific era and style.

Funny how we make associations. For me (in my error) drop-D was the preserve of cowboys and folkies.

Psean

X-rated Bob wrote:
Psean wrote: Yeah, I've long known about alternate tunings in general (especially Jimmy Page's use of DADGAD among others and and Keef's use of Open G - I was always under the impression that he picked it up from the Everly Brothers though) but Drop-d in particular was one that for me was associated with a specific era and style.
Funny how we make associations. For me (in my error) drop-D was the preserve of cowboys and folkies.

'Tis indeed. I like finding out that things are different from what I'd though - I'll probably think of drop-d very differently from now.