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

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.

singemonkey

No one invented anything in the '90s. That basic rule of thumb will steer you straight.

DonovanB

singemonkey wrote: No one invented anything in the '90s. That basic rule of thumb will steer you straight.

eh?

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.

Keef got a crash course in open G when Ry Cooder was called in to do some session work on a stones album. Cooder was doing mostly session work in the late 60s after a spell playing with Captain Beefheart. At some point during the session they got talking and Cooder showed Keef open G and (Cooder says) what became the introduction for Honky Tonk Women. I've been quite struck listening to Cooder's recent releases by what sounds like him playing like Keef, but the reality is that it's Ry sounding like Ry.

Drop D was a mystery to me for years. I knew it was there, but I couldn't figure out why anybody would want it, let alone how to play in it. Then I got a John Hiatt DVD. That show opens with Hiatt playing a song of his that I'd tried but could never quite get right "Icy Blue Heart". So I'm watching Hiatt play it and everything is just like I play it until he gets to the G chord. Then he's playing down by the 5th fret on the bottom strings. I thought "huh?" then suddenly the scales fell from my eyes and I realised that this was Drop-D, this was how you played in Drop-D, and the reason I couldn't get that song quite right was because it's supposed to be played in Drop-D. Bingo! I have not looked back, and I regard Drop-D as a good friend now.

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.
Keef got a crash course in open G when Ry Cooder was called in to do some session work on a stones album. Cooder was doing mostly session work in the late 60s after a spell playing with Captain Beefheart. At some point during the session they got talking and Cooder showed Keef open G and (Cooder says) what became the introduction for Honky Tonk Women. I've been quite struck listening to Cooder's recent releases by what sounds like him playing like Keef, but the reality is that it's Ry sounding like Ry.

Drop D was a mystery to me for years. I knew it was there, but I couldn't figure out why anybody would want it, let alone how to play in it. Then I got a John Hiatt DVD. That show opens with Hiatt playing a song of his that I'd tried but could never quite get right "Icy Blue Heart". So I'm watching Hiatt play it and everything is just like I play it until he gets to the G chord. Then he's playing down by the 5th fret on the bottom strings. I thought "huh?" then suddenly the scales fell from my eyes and I realised that this was Drop-D, this was how you played in Drop-D, and the reason I couldn't get that song quite right was because it's supposed to be played in Drop-D. Bingo! I have not looked back, and I regard Drop-D as a good friend now.

Thanks for the Ry Cooder info ?

Psean

singemonkey wrote: No one invented anything in the '90s. That basic rule of thumb will steer you straight.

Haha. That's a good one to remember ?. There must be at least one exception though (can't think of any but surely ther's something).
Oh, and just to be clear; I never thought it was invented in the '90s; that's just the era in which it seems most prominent (to me anyway).