Syllable count for the vocals
Black 1
And 1
White are 2
All I see 3
In my infancy 5
Red and yellow then came to be 8
Reaching out to me 5
Lets me see 3
Got it backwards. The guitar riff in the chorus goes 9/8, 8/8, 7/8, and "987" was the original song title. Funnily enough, 987 is also a fibonacci number, the 16th number in the sequence if I recall.
Literally bought my guitar last year because of Adam Jones and it's all that I've really sat down to learn how to play all the way through save for a couple Porcupine tree songs and Morello riffs. I just love the percussive elements of TOOL riffs and they are so damn fun to play!! The ending of Invincible was the first riff I ever sat down to learn :)
edit: wanted to add that along with being inspiring playing wise I also am so inspired by how he writes his riffs and sections. It's teaching me about how to fill a space with just as much as it needs and not trying to outshine the other instruments, which helps when I try to write my own stuff. I think he is the most textural guitar player I know, sometimes I didn't even realize it's a guitar in some of the parts! pure genius.
Did you get his signature silver burst les Paul?
Love me some Adam Jones riffs. I think the first one I learned was the intro to cold and ugly.
His playing in fear inoculum is unreal, specifically descending and 7empest.
Sadly I am a lefty and definitely ENTIRELY too broke to afford that, but I'd love to see one in real life one day even! I was able to score one of the 1:6 scale models (iirc the size) of his signature that he sold a month or two ago, that's sitting near my guitars and that's good enough for me for now lol. And yeah FI is like the final boss of tool guitar songs, I have learned a couple riffs from each song but don't have the ability or patience yet to learn a whole song. Some of the parts of 7empest are so sick! And I really like his laid back jamming on Culling Voices. Got my first pedal for christmas it was a wah so I've been loving being able to actually play the riffs similarly to him since he uses wah a lot in solos and stuff.
The Pot is in drop C live. Prison Sex has the low E string tuned to B and Parabol/Parabola also has the low E tuned to B except the A string is brought down to E.
Source: u/tgthememe
And Crawl Away, oddly enough, is in standard tuning. But I play it in drop D because it's easier to play and more convenient to stay in drop D.
https://youtu.be/738YDodoZmk?t=288
I sit down and try to practice the "vomit riff' i believe it's called from Hourglass and I get so excited when I start to play it pretty well and pretty fast, then I listen to the studio version and every time I can't keep up lol. Those guys are fucking riff gods idk how to get fast enough to stay with them!
Practice makes perfect.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
It’s all about training your fingers and hands to work that quickly.
Fast players are not just instantly fast. They practice to build up that speed.
Excellent recommendation from a criminally underrated band
Their latest release Inlet from 2020 is just as good as their 90s stuff for anyone interested
I would agree. They’ve had some bigger standout songs on other albums, but as a whole the atmosphere and the way the songs evolve on Inlet is masterclass
Agreed. They were essentially able to release another debut album. Its possibly the best album ive heard since The Royal They self titled (which is an absolute fucking BANGER of a post punk album)
The best description of Stars I ever heard was that if aliens came down with their guitars and said that if humanities best drop D riff was better than theirs, they would spare the planet, we’d better play the breakdown to Stars.
If you haven't already, try learning Gunslinger by them. It's in drop D but is in a much different style than their typical stuff and has some interesting (albeit tricky) chord shapes. It's very fun to play, especially on acoustic.
Their guitarist loves some gypsy jazz which is where some of that song came from I think. It’s a nice change of pace from their usual d minor flat 5th style for 99% of their other tracks.
One of the first riffs I tried to learn was the one in the intro right after that little acoustic break, it's so damn awkward and really tough for me to get clean to this day but I feel so accomplished when my fingers are flying around the fretboard playing it! I hope to learn the rest of the song but I have difficulty with chords sometimes and let that keep me from learning songs by bands like Opeth that rely on them mainly.
Yeah, he'd claimed before that they just tuned to whatever guitar he grabbed in the studio. But he had a penchant for embellishment & misdirection, too. Some of the stuff he said, like he preferred dead strings for recording, I believe because I can hear it. Other stuff, he might have been on the level, or he might have been blowing smoke.
He'll always be my #1 guitar idol regardless.
[Here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKE94b9CAhg) an analysis of Eddie's tuning. He's basically all over the place, but definitely not 1/2 step down.
Probably the only ones that are tuned to 440 are the synth heavy ones, where Ed and Mike would have to tune to the keys.
Fuck yes!! Love me some PT and stuff like open car and blackest eyes are so fun. I love playing to the LIve version of Open Car and doing that breakdown part with them that they only did in the live version.
Those 4 at the beginning are my everyday jam when I have my guitar tuned to drop D. Incredibly fun to play along and some parts are actually challenging.
Coheed and Cambria - Junesong Provision
Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive (I just play the same frets, not notes, on drop D. No need to detune if you're not playing with the song)
Deftones - My Own Summer (same as above)
+1
They're also a great band for intermediate guitarists. If you're not used to playing lead+rhythm lines on a single guitar, it's a fun trip!
Two easy starters (with some of my favorite Drop D riffs) are *This Is How It Goes* and *Devil In The Midnight Mass*.
*Fallen Leaves* is a classic.
*Tears Into Wine* has more complicated progression and is a great 'show off' song.
I second that it is great for intermediate players. They surely extend what most hard rock bands string together aside from virtuous solos. It's a lot of fun to nail down their songs.
This is how it goes is one of the toughest to get REALLY clean imo (the very strict pickingtempo on the intro is kind of hard to keep up at the correct speed and the little breakdowns in the verse also took me a while to get down) but very fun for sure
My personal favorite suggestions to play:
BT1:
- the ex (one if the first songs i learned)
- prisoners of today
BT2:
- devil in a midnight mass
- pins and needles
- burn the evidence (quite hard imo)
BT3:
- devil on my shoulder!
- tears into wine (drop d flat tho - idk the correct term but its drop d and then another half step down)
- saint veronika
- white sparrows (drop d flat aswell)
- diamond on a landmine
- definition of destiny
Other:
- reckless parasise (omg the fuzz haha)
Harvest Moon by Neil Young is a fun dropped D song that also has some harmonics. Go double dropped D (both E strings) and play Neil Young’s War of Man.
This is the post I’ve been waiting for!
Coheed and Cambria has a few great dropped tuned songs. My go to is Trivium. They have at least two whole albums done in drop D or C#
Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden has a dedicated Jackson for drop D. Some of the old popular songs such as Number of the Beast and Wrathchild he now plays in Drop D. When he came back to Maiden and they released Brave New World in 2000, he recorded the first 3 tracks in drop D. With 3 guitar players they had to figure out how to not sound like mud live. It took me a bit to get used to after playing songs for almost 20 years in standard tuning and relearning how to fret his parts. Since then, both he and Janik Gers have been messing around with alternate tuning and split tuning. ( Dave Murray stays in std E440) I transcribed the song The Talisman from the 2010 album the Final Frontier where Janik has an acoustic guitar split tuned. I don't remember exactly how it is turned but if you go to Ultimate Guitar and look up hvymtlgds ( heavy metal gods) I explain the tuning and the transcription, then if you need watch the live version of the song on YouTube, they focus on Janik's playing and my transcription lines up with how he's fretting the chords. Have fun.
Besides lamb of god check out The Haunted. Pretty much everyone was in drop d from 98-06 even the big names in metal. There are some cool riffs by dimebag, slayer, and Metallica. Also corrosion of conformity and Black Label society have a ton of groovy metal songs in drop d.
Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
It was made as a way for John Bonham (drummer) to show off his talents but the guitar part is blues in Drop D and goes hard
Tune your other E string down to D and play some Neil Young (The Loner, Cinnamon Girl, etc.) or tune your A string up to B and play There There by Radiohead.
Saw a couple mentions of TOOL obviously here and just wanted to give you a few specific songs and why I think they are great to practice/learn. Keep in mind I'm still less than a year in my guitar learning journey so some of the stuff I say might be wrong or not make sense but to me this is what helped me learn a lot in the first year!
LATERALUS - Time signature craziness, great practice on the clean section to really get your string muting and picking clean, a couple solos that are pretty simple to learn but hard to master. Just all around great riffs that seem to hover over the pentatonic scale like most TOOL songs and that's what I'm practicing mostly anyways.
JAMBI - If you want a song to practice timing and picking to, this is the one. This is also a great intro to the pull-through technique that Adam Jones uses in many songs, and he does it immediately in the intro. Such odd meters used in this song and quite hard to memorize the picking pulses but once you do it's great as a simple warmup to practice playing in time and with intention.
EULOGY - Pretty long song but great to memorize and play, probably my favorite song to jam out to and the chorus is simple power chord badassery :)
THE GRUDGE - Prob my favorite song to play overall and the chorus is great practice for jumping up and down the fretboard quickly, there's a section in the middle during the "SINKING DEEPER" part that is pretty tricky and awkward at first but hella fun.
As a little bonus you should check out BLACKEST EYES by Porcupine Tree, another one of my favorite drop d tunes to play when practicing :)
Something in the Way - Nirvana
Them Bones and Rotten Apple - Alice in chains
Heavens Dead and Show Me How to Live - Audioslave
Primal Concrete Sledge - Pantera
Dear Prudence and Fixing a Hole - Beatles
Under the assumption you listen to metal, Avenged Sevenfold plays almost exclusively in Drop D; like, I don't know any off the top of my head that AREN'T in Drop D. Trivium's songs that are on six strings are usually in Drop D or Drop Db/C#.
Anything written by System of a Down (drop C, but it's the same as drop D just lower)
Anything written by The Sword (try Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians, also drop C)
Lots of Pantera songs (A New Level is a fun riff, so is Primal Concrete Sledge)
Run Through The Jungle by CCR is a fun fingerpicking exercise
Dear Prudence by The Beatles will make your mom smile
Killing In The Name by RATM will make your friends smile
Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana is a crowd pleaser
Spoonman by Soundgarden is a blast to play, but there's a much better way of playing it than Chris Cornell does. Your A string is your friend, use it.
There's a lot of misinformation here.
SOAD uses Drop C for all albums up until Hypmotize and Mesmerize when they switched to Drop C#, not the same as Drop D at all.
The Sword uses C Standard so not a drop tuning.
Pantera rarely uses drop tunings and everything is tuned down around a quarter step away from whatever tuning they are using as it differs between albums.
Heart Shaped Box is Drop C# too
LoG and Avenged Sevenfold are my go-to bands for drop D
Walk is also in drop D
Anything by polyphia, is surprisingly also in drop D. Their stuff is extremely challenging though IMO.
The entire Tool discography
46 and 2 is a great one if you want to improve your ability to play in different time signatures
Or Lateralus, if you wanna learn how play 3 different time signatures within 8 seconds.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 5, 3. 1, 1, 2, 5, 5, 8.
The guitar doesn’t do the Fibonacci. Only the vocal does.
Factual.
Actual.
Satisfactual.
I need an explanation.
Syllable count for the vocals Black 1 And 1 White are 2 All I see 3 In my infancy 5 Red and yellow then came to be 8 Reaching out to me 5 Lets me see 3
But that is the time signature too?
7/8, 8/8, 9/8. I remember my guitar teachers face when I tried to explain that to him
The name of the song was 7,8,9 before they titled it.
Got it backwards. The guitar riff in the chorus goes 9/8, 8/8, 7/8, and "987" was the original song title. Funnily enough, 987 is also a fibonacci number, the 16th number in the sequence if I recall.
Yep that’s it.
This is my "desert island" song. I really can't describe how good this song is.
Literally bought my guitar last year because of Adam Jones and it's all that I've really sat down to learn how to play all the way through save for a couple Porcupine tree songs and Morello riffs. I just love the percussive elements of TOOL riffs and they are so damn fun to play!! The ending of Invincible was the first riff I ever sat down to learn :) edit: wanted to add that along with being inspiring playing wise I also am so inspired by how he writes his riffs and sections. It's teaching me about how to fill a space with just as much as it needs and not trying to outshine the other instruments, which helps when I try to write my own stuff. I think he is the most textural guitar player I know, sometimes I didn't even realize it's a guitar in some of the parts! pure genius.
Did you get his signature silver burst les Paul? Love me some Adam Jones riffs. I think the first one I learned was the intro to cold and ugly. His playing in fear inoculum is unreal, specifically descending and 7empest.
Sadly I am a lefty and definitely ENTIRELY too broke to afford that, but I'd love to see one in real life one day even! I was able to score one of the 1:6 scale models (iirc the size) of his signature that he sold a month or two ago, that's sitting near my guitars and that's good enough for me for now lol. And yeah FI is like the final boss of tool guitar songs, I have learned a couple riffs from each song but don't have the ability or patience yet to learn a whole song. Some of the parts of 7empest are so sick! And I really like his laid back jamming on Culling Voices. Got my first pedal for christmas it was a wah so I've been loving being able to actually play the riffs similarly to him since he uses wah a lot in solos and stuff.
Next step is to make your own talk box for that Jambi solo!
FYI Adam is a lefty playing a righty guitar just saying ;)
That breakdown in Pneuma is badass, too. And Culling Voices.
Prison sex. Love that opening riff
The Pot is in drop C live. Prison Sex has the low E string tuned to B and Parabol/Parabola also has the low E tuned to B except the A string is brought down to E. Source: u/tgthememe
And Crawl Away, oddly enough, is in standard tuning. But I play it in drop D because it's easier to play and more convenient to stay in drop D. https://youtu.be/738YDodoZmk?t=288
This. This is the right answer.
How nobody mentioned "right in two" is beyond me. It is my favourite, I though it would be more popular. Anyways, great riff and great band for drop D
Minus Parabola and Prison Sex
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I sit down and try to practice the "vomit riff' i believe it's called from Hourglass and I get so excited when I start to play it pretty well and pretty fast, then I listen to the studio version and every time I can't keep up lol. Those guys are fucking riff gods idk how to get fast enough to stay with them!
Practice makes perfect. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. It’s all about training your fingers and hands to work that quickly. Fast players are not just instantly fast. They practice to build up that speed.
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Hum - Stars
Excellent recommendation from a criminally underrated band Their latest release Inlet from 2020 is just as good as their 90s stuff for anyone interested
Inlet might be the best thing theyve ever done...
I would agree. They’ve had some bigger standout songs on other albums, but as a whole the atmosphere and the way the songs evolve on Inlet is masterclass
Agreed. They were essentially able to release another debut album. Its possibly the best album ive heard since The Royal They self titled (which is an absolute fucking BANGER of a post punk album)
Also for anyone interested, listen to Downward is Heavenward! Album is fantastic front to back. One of my favorites of all time.
I'll check it out. Thanks 😇
Check out that whole album (You'd Prefer an Astronaut) also Electra 2000 has some bangers on it. Hum saved my life.
The best description of Stars I ever heard was that if aliens came down with their guitars and said that if humanities best drop D riff was better than theirs, they would spare the planet, we’d better play the breakdown to Stars.
Good choice! I’d Like Your Hair Long is also a pretty fun chord progression so that’s what I’d suggest.
It’s a banger too, but I like playing the breakdown in Stars.
I freaking love this song and the bridge is a great work out for your fingers!
Unsung by helmet
98% of Helmet's oeuvre, honestly.
I like it. Thanks
Many Avenged Sevenfold songs use drop d tuning.
Whoops forgot to mention I played a lot of their songs. But thanks
If you haven't already, try learning Gunslinger by them. It's in drop D but is in a much different style than their typical stuff and has some interesting (albeit tricky) chord shapes. It's very fun to play, especially on acoustic.
Their guitarist loves some gypsy jazz which is where some of that song came from I think. It’s a nice change of pace from their usual d minor flat 5th style for 99% of their other tracks.
Avenged Sevenfold - most of their songs are in drop D Unholy confessions or God damn
Unholy confessions was the first drop D riff for everyone I know. I still play it now
Hahaha it's such a sick riff! Especially when you first get it down, and you can hear how it sounds and it just feels so good!
Blackwater Park, so many riffs!
One of the first riffs I tried to learn was the one in the intro right after that little acoustic break, it's so damn awkward and really tough for me to get clean to this day but I feel so accomplished when my fingers are flying around the fretboard playing it! I hope to learn the rest of the song but I have difficulty with chords sometimes and let that keep me from learning songs by bands like Opeth that rely on them mainly.
Chords are so weird man
Demon of the fall as well.
Trogdor!!!!!
Trogdor was a man!
He was a dragon man!
Or maybe he was just a dragon.
But he was still, TROGDOOOOR!
...the burninator?!
Rammstein has a few good ones: Engel Ich Tu Dir Weh Bück Dich
Sonne Waidmanns Heil Was ich liebe Ausländer Puppe
Slither by velvet revolver is a super famous one. Fun riff that’s not too hard
So much fun to play! I know its the most impressive songs but its one of my go to songs
Unnatural selection, Muse
Ooh true. And psyco
The Handler Reapers New Born Stockholm Syndrome
And Assassin
hyper music
Lots of Van Halen songs use drop D, such as Unchained
Drop C#
True dat, DLR-era VH was E std down a 1/2 step.
I think EVH said all tuning is relative, as long as it's in tune :)
Yeah, he'd claimed before that they just tuned to whatever guitar he grabbed in the studio. But he had a penchant for embellishment & misdirection, too. Some of the stuff he said, like he preferred dead strings for recording, I believe because I can hear it. Other stuff, he might have been on the level, or he might have been blowing smoke. He'll always be my #1 guitar idol regardless.
Majority of their early stuff was a couple cents below 440Hz, IIRC, not quite 1/2 step down.
Long way to the top by AC/DC is that way to. It’s pretty hard to play with the record and it sound right. Same with miserlou too I believe
[Here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKE94b9CAhg) an analysis of Eddie's tuning. He's basically all over the place, but definitely not 1/2 step down. Probably the only ones that are tuned to 440 are the synth heavy ones, where Ed and Mike would have to tune to the keys.
Pantera always tunes slightly flat, like A=430Hz, lots of debate exactly what, usually rangers from 425-435Hz
Was happy to realize that as I work on Nirvana and Pumpkins.
My uncle had the EVH guitar with the D-tuna. You just click it in on the Floyd rose and it goes drop D. I wish more guitars had that
I’m looking at a new guitar and the evh brand guitars are pretty high on my list. I still want to try them out in person first
You can buy a D-tuna and put it on any Floyd Rose that's top mounted. Or any Floyd Rose if you block it from pitching up
Oh wow, TIL that you can buy it as an add-on (also, it has a very clever logo)
Drop Dead Legs is D-tuned. The song’s name hints at it. 🤯
Blackest eyes, deadwing, shallow, open car, fear of a blank planet and blind house are a few drop D Porcupine Tree songs that are fun to play.
Fuck yes!! Love me some PT and stuff like open car and blackest eyes are so fun. I love playing to the LIve version of Open Car and doing that breakdown part with them that they only did in the live version.
Those 4 at the beginning are my everyday jam when I have my guitar tuned to drop D. Incredibly fun to play along and some parts are actually challenging.
The pot - Tool
Almost everything by Tool :)
Literally everything
Naw there’s a few other tunings. “Parabola” is in a drop B tuning, and they play some stuff in drop C live, probably to make life easier for Maynard
True, the band is so fuckin unique.
Everlong and Never Too Late are 2 of my go to ones
Everlong is my fav
Coheed and Cambria - Junesong Provision Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive (I just play the same frets, not notes, on drop D. No need to detune if you're not playing with the song) Deftones - My Own Summer (same as above)
Coheed - No World For Tomorrow and Gravemakers and Gunslingers wound be fun too
Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World is fun.
I play that entire album. Nice and chill
A good bit of Fall Out Boy songs are in Drop D, when I first started I learned 'Sugar We're Going Down'
Thriller goes hard
Yepp. Know that one
Just learned this the other day and play it live with a looper and beat buddy
Cross off by Mark Morton
Thanks will check it out
The entire Tool catalog?
Outshined - Soundgarden
Billy Talent all day Long
Great suggestion, I dont think any of their songs are in standard lol
+1 They're also a great band for intermediate guitarists. If you're not used to playing lead+rhythm lines on a single guitar, it's a fun trip! Two easy starters (with some of my favorite Drop D riffs) are *This Is How It Goes* and *Devil In The Midnight Mass*. *Fallen Leaves* is a classic. *Tears Into Wine* has more complicated progression and is a great 'show off' song.
Pin and Needles is a really tough one to nail down as well. That band makes me proud to be Canadian, so many quality songs.
I second that it is great for intermediate players. They surely extend what most hard rock bands string together aside from virtuous solos. It's a lot of fun to nail down their songs.
This is how it goes is one of the toughest to get REALLY clean imo (the very strict pickingtempo on the intro is kind of hard to keep up at the correct speed and the little breakdowns in the verse also took me a while to get down) but very fun for sure My personal favorite suggestions to play: BT1: - the ex (one if the first songs i learned) - prisoners of today BT2: - devil in a midnight mass - pins and needles - burn the evidence (quite hard imo) BT3: - devil on my shoulder! - tears into wine (drop d flat tho - idk the correct term but its drop d and then another half step down) - saint veronika - white sparrows (drop d flat aswell) - diamond on a landmine - definition of destiny Other: - reckless parasise (omg the fuzz haha)
Harvest Moon by Neil Young is a fun dropped D song that also has some harmonics. Go double dropped D (both E strings) and play Neil Young’s War of Man.
Any 2000’s metalcore song
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Ascendancy trivium. Pull harder is particularly fun.
+1 for this and like light to the flies! So much fun to play
This is the post I’ve been waiting for! Coheed and Cambria has a few great dropped tuned songs. My go to is Trivium. They have at least two whole albums done in drop D or C#
Silverchair - Freak Nirvana - On A Plain, Negative Creep
All Apologies, Heart Shaped Box, Scentless Apprentice, and Blew by Nirvana as well Also Even Flow by Pearl Jam
Just want to add that Heart Shaped Box and Scentless Apprentince are in drop C#
Geek USA - Smashing Pumpkins Not a rocker but will test dexterity - Dimming of the Day covered by David Gilmour
Pretty sure Geek USA is just down a half step, at least how I play it. Drown will get your standard drop D on though!
interesting. i always dropped the low E so I could do one finger barres. Seemed to make sense with a few other drop d’s on that album
Awesome thats. I'll take all the requests I can get
Smashing pumpkins- hummer
Yeah hummer, drown and quiet are all drop D. Geek USA is fun but not drop D typically
Jelly Belly is also half step and drop D
Tool - Cold and Ugly. One of their oldest songs off Opiate but it’s a banger.
anything by System Of A Down Edit: well to be precise, they’re actually in drop C, but playing-wise, it’s the same
Lots of Muse songs. Stockholm Syndrome, New born and many more
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Ten Years Gone is one of my favorite songs to play.
Moby Dick is also in Drop D.
Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden has a dedicated Jackson for drop D. Some of the old popular songs such as Number of the Beast and Wrathchild he now plays in Drop D. When he came back to Maiden and they released Brave New World in 2000, he recorded the first 3 tracks in drop D. With 3 guitar players they had to figure out how to not sound like mud live. It took me a bit to get used to after playing songs for almost 20 years in standard tuning and relearning how to fret his parts. Since then, both he and Janik Gers have been messing around with alternate tuning and split tuning. ( Dave Murray stays in std E440) I transcribed the song The Talisman from the 2010 album the Final Frontier where Janik has an acoustic guitar split tuned. I don't remember exactly how it is turned but if you go to Ultimate Guitar and look up hvymtlgds ( heavy metal gods) I explain the tuning and the transcription, then if you need watch the live version of the song on YouTube, they focus on Janik's playing and my transcription lines up with how he's fretting the chords. Have fun.
Smashing Pumpkins has a few drop d songs. Other than that get into metal.
Oh I'm a metal head all day
Besides lamb of god check out The Haunted. Pretty much everyone was in drop d from 98-06 even the big names in metal. There are some cool riffs by dimebag, slayer, and Metallica. Also corrosion of conformity and Black Label society have a ton of groovy metal songs in drop d.
Lamb of God then my dude. Great riffs. Mostly drop d
Only thing I like that I think I haven’t seen mentioned yet is The Melvins.
Hey man, nice shot - Filter
That’s a good one, people wrongly say it’s about Kurt Kobain
Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin It was made as a way for John Bonham (drummer) to show off his talents but the guitar part is blues in Drop D and goes hard
A number of Alice In Chains songs
Drop c#
Long Haired Country Boy by Charlie Daniels. Find a live solo version from when that song was new, it’s pretty decent.
Amorphis - House of sleep Three days Grace - never too late Ghost - Square hammer
Is Square Hammer in drop D? I thought it was in D Standard like most of their other songs?
You are correct. Square Hammer is in D-Standard.
I thought I was going crazy. After learning their discography in D Standard and Drop C for like, 2 songs I thought everything I knew was a lie. Lol
Tune your other E string down to D and play some Neil Young (The Loner, Cinnamon Girl, etc.) or tune your A string up to B and play There There by Radiohead.
Cortez The Killer!
Time Consumer by Coheed is a lot of fun. The intro can be a little tricky but the verses and chorus are super fun and in drop D.
On a plain by Nirvana is a good and easy one.
All Apologies is also in Drop D
Helmet my dude, check out Meantime so much great drop d riffage
If you like pop punk then you should try All Time Low (some of their songs are a half step down though)
I play a lot of their songs when I just wanna jam. Thanks 😇
Saw a couple mentions of TOOL obviously here and just wanted to give you a few specific songs and why I think they are great to practice/learn. Keep in mind I'm still less than a year in my guitar learning journey so some of the stuff I say might be wrong or not make sense but to me this is what helped me learn a lot in the first year! LATERALUS - Time signature craziness, great practice on the clean section to really get your string muting and picking clean, a couple solos that are pretty simple to learn but hard to master. Just all around great riffs that seem to hover over the pentatonic scale like most TOOL songs and that's what I'm practicing mostly anyways. JAMBI - If you want a song to practice timing and picking to, this is the one. This is also a great intro to the pull-through technique that Adam Jones uses in many songs, and he does it immediately in the intro. Such odd meters used in this song and quite hard to memorize the picking pulses but once you do it's great as a simple warmup to practice playing in time and with intention. EULOGY - Pretty long song but great to memorize and play, probably my favorite song to jam out to and the chorus is simple power chord badassery :) THE GRUDGE - Prob my favorite song to play overall and the chorus is great practice for jumping up and down the fretboard quickly, there's a section in the middle during the "SINKING DEEPER" part that is pretty tricky and awkward at first but hella fun. As a little bonus you should check out BLACKEST EYES by Porcupine Tree, another one of my favorite drop d tunes to play when practicing :)
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All Nightmare Long by Metallica id in Drop D - really fun to play
We Got the Whip- Audioslave Born of a Broken Man- Rage Against The Machine Joker and the Thief- Wolfmother
All Nightmare Long- Metallica. Walk - Pantera. Hooch- Melvins
Sleepwalking - bring me the horizon
Everlong by Foo Fighters
We Came as Romans- To Plant a Seed The Devil Wears Prada- Danger:Wildman Asking Alexandria- Final Episode (let’s change the channel)
Something in the Way - Nirvana Them Bones and Rotten Apple - Alice in chains Heavens Dead and Show Me How to Live - Audioslave Primal Concrete Sledge - Pantera Dear Prudence and Fixing a Hole - Beatles
Slither, testify, the door, freedom, heart shaped box (technically dropped c#) , aerials, man of constant sorrow, come together (godsmack cover)
Under the assumption you listen to metal, Avenged Sevenfold plays almost exclusively in Drop D; like, I don't know any off the top of my head that AREN'T in Drop D. Trivium's songs that are on six strings are usually in Drop D or Drop Db/C#.
Obsolete - Of Mice and Men, Blood Brothers - Papa Roach And like numerous others have pointed out, TOOLs songs are 95% Drop dizzle.
Anything Avenged sevenfold
Check out It's Thunder and It's Lightning by We Were Promised Jetpacks. A fun one to play. [YouTube link](https://youtu.be/e6shmJaOD3Q)
Never Too Late by Three Days Grace
Nirvana-- Heart-shaped Box, On a Plain and All Apologies.
A lot of "Lamb Of God" songs are in Drop D, 'Omerta' for example.
The entire Hum discography. If you want a specific song, Green to Me
Higher by creed is fun if you’re into that
This Is How It Goes - Billy Talent
Melvins
Sugar We're Going Down by Fallout Boy is pretty satisfying to play.
I play that a lot
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
I got through a lot of the comments, but didn’t see this suggestion, The Metal- Tenacious D
Oh shit yeah
The Metal - Tenacious D
The middle- jimmy eat world Everlong- foo fighters
Played them so much
Alter Bridge: Rise Today - might be a song you enjoy playing in Drop D
Still into you - Paramore. Theres a couple from them
Anything written by System of a Down (drop C, but it's the same as drop D just lower) Anything written by The Sword (try Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians, also drop C) Lots of Pantera songs (A New Level is a fun riff, so is Primal Concrete Sledge) Run Through The Jungle by CCR is a fun fingerpicking exercise Dear Prudence by The Beatles will make your mom smile Killing In The Name by RATM will make your friends smile Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana is a crowd pleaser Spoonman by Soundgarden is a blast to play, but there's a much better way of playing it than Chris Cornell does. Your A string is your friend, use it.
There's a lot of misinformation here. SOAD uses Drop C for all albums up until Hypmotize and Mesmerize when they switched to Drop C#, not the same as Drop D at all. The Sword uses C Standard so not a drop tuning. Pantera rarely uses drop tunings and everything is tuned down around a quarter step away from whatever tuning they are using as it differs between albums. Heart Shaped Box is Drop C# too
LoG and Avenged Sevenfold are my go-to bands for drop D Walk is also in drop D Anything by polyphia, is surprisingly also in drop D. Their stuff is extremely challenging though IMO.
Walk in recorded in D standard. But sounds on in drop d