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Drop D Songs

fencefacefenceface Posts: 37
edited November 2007 in Musicians and Gearheads
I play

pure massacre and undecided from silverchair
nirvana something in the way
feel good hit of the summer from qotsa
marigod from nirvana (havn't done that in awhile so i got to take a look at the tabs)

yeah I write simple drop d songs so anyone else know some good drop d songs to mess around that i could add to my covers list come gig time?
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  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    All Apologies - Nirvana
    On A Plain - Nirvana
    Exhausted - Foo Fighters
    Everlong - Foo
    Be Quiet and Drive - Deftones
    Change - Deftones

    Those all sound pretty tasty on acoustic
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    Dead Man- Pearl Jam
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  • fencefacefenceface Posts: 37
    awesome cool thanks I'll check em out.
  • RhynoRhyno Posts: 304
    Marker in the Sand is Drop D I believe
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  • xtremehardy388xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    NO WAY- Pearl Jam
    Go-Pearl Jam
    Evenflow(can be played in drop D)-Pearl Jam
    Judith-A Perfect Circle
    Something in the way-Nirvana(already mentioned)
    Everlong-Foo Fighters(already mentioned)
    Hey! Johnny Park(Foo Fighters)
    Disposition-TOOL
    Leash-Pearl Jam
    Stinkfist-TOOL
    Parabola-TOOL
    Loser-Beck
    (Basically anything by TOOL)


    That's enough from me...yeah, I enjoy playing most of those songs.
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  • Mike_Muse_RageMike_Muse_Rage Posts: 677
    Soundgarden. A whole lot of stuff to check out there: Hands All Over, Outshined, Jesus Christ Pose, Black Hole Sun, Spoonman etc.
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    Mike_Muse_Rage wrote:
    Soundgarden. A whole lot of stuff to check out there: Hands All Over, Outshined, Jesus Christ Pose, Black Hole Sun, Spoonman etc.

    I want to hear an acoustic version of "Jesus Christ Pose" very badly!!

    heh heh
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  • fadafada Posts: 1,032
    Dear Prudence The beatles
    Get Away Ocean colour scene
    Street in the city Pete Townshend
    Razor foo fighters
    ten years gone led zeppelin
    happy alone kings of leon
  • fencefacefenceface Posts: 37
    yeah soundgarden has some real werid tunings also.

    drop c, thats a real out of tune drop d from my understanding?
  • MLC2006MLC2006 Posts: 861
    Alice in Chains- We Die Young, Sunshine, Them Bones, Dam That River (plus a half step down, but sounds good either way)

    Soundgarden- Outshined, Spoonman, Black Hole Sun

    Neil Young- Cinnamon Girl

    Days of the New- Touch/Peel/Stand

    System of a Down- Lonely Day and Toxicity (I believe these are actually Drop D and then down a whole additional step. but imo, they sound better in regular Drop D. I think a lot of bands sound silly when they try to tune so far down because they think that's what makes a song "heavy")
  • MLC2006MLC2006 Posts: 861
    fenceface wrote:

    drop c, thats a real out of tune drop d from my understanding?


    drop c is drop d tuned down another whole step. any song that's in drop c, you can play in drop d, it'll just be a little higher pitched. I like drop d better, I think it sounds "prettier". when you tune down to c, the strings can start to get kind of wobbly.
  • i_am_a_wishlisti_am_a_wishlist Posts: 628
    Fuckin' Up - Neil Young
    Hunger Stike - TOTD

    I think Cinnamon girl is actually DADGAD
  • xtremehardy388xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Satan's Bed-Pearl Jam if my memory serves me right...and Present Tense.
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  • lucylespianlucylespian Posts: 2,403
    i_am_a_wishlist wrote:
    Fuckin' Up - Neil Young
    Hunger Stike - TOTD

    I think Cinnamon girl is actually DADGAD

    I thought someone would come up with Fuckin' Up evntually. It's my favourite Drop D song og all.

    Metallica's "Blackened" ( or is it TTTSNB ??) is tabbed as Drop D in the tab book, though it apparently it was recorded in D standard. The sound is the same, just the fingering a littel different. "MFC" is tabbed on GTW in Drop D, but I don't know why cos it's really easy to play in E standard, which I do.
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    i_am_a_wishlist wrote:
    I think Cinnamon girl is actually DADGAD


    i was just going to say that.

    pick any song by Weezer... they are all in Drop D. :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • HebejebeHebejebe Posts: 108
    xtremehardy388 wrote:
    NO WAY- Pearl Jam
    Go-Pearl Jam
    Evenflow(can be played in drop D)-Pearl Jam
    Judith-A Perfect Circle
    Something in the way-Nirvana(already mentioned)
    Everlong-Foo Fighters(already mentioned)
    Hey! Johnny Park(Foo Fighters)
    Disposition-TOOL
    Leash-Pearl Jam
    Stinkfist-TOOL
    Parabola-TOOL
    Loser-Beck
    (Basically anything by TOOL)


    That's enough from me...yeah, I enjoy playing most of those songs.

    You are right that almost everything by Tool is in drop d but parabol/parabola are in drop b/e bedgbe
  • MLC2006MLC2006 Posts: 861
    lucylespian wrote:
    Metallica's "Blackened" ( or is it TTTSNB ??) is tabbed as Drop D in the tab book, though it apparently it was recorded in D standard. The sound is the same, just the fingering a littel different. "MFC" is tabbed on GTW in Drop D, but I don't know why cos it's really easy to play in E standard, which I do.


    "Blackened" is standard tuning. don't know about TTTSNB.
  • fencefacefenceface Posts: 37
    alright cool thanks for the lists dudes.
  • ianvomsaalianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    " Killing in the name of " by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - nice shocker (and its easy to play).

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  • The VacantThe Vacant Posts: 271
    Soundgarden's Room A Thousand Years Wide is a fun and easy one to play.
  • Mike_Muse_RageMike_Muse_Rage Posts: 677
    ianvomsaal wrote:
    " Killing in the name of " by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - nice shocker (and its easy to play).

    - Ian
    You mean "Killing In The Name". I forgot about Rage, there's so much classic material right there. Around half of their songs are in drop D.
  • stevieraveonstevieraveon Posts: 413
    dunkman wrote:
    i was just going to say that.

    pick any song by Weezer... they are all in Drop D. :)

    I disagree. I play tons of their songs in standard tuning dropped down a half a step to Eb. This is not Drop D.

    Some ones not mentioned so far:

    "Hanging by a Moment" by Lifehouse
    "Adam's Song" by Blink 182
    "No Other Way" Jack Johnson
    "Razor" Foo Fighters
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  • Mike_Muse_RageMike_Muse_Rage Posts: 677
    ^ Adam's Song is a whole tone down.
  • stevieraveonstevieraveon Posts: 413
    Mike_Muse_Rage wrote:
    ^ Adam's Song is a whole tone down.

    You're probably right, I learned it in drop D like this:
    http://www.azchords.com/b/blink182-tabs-2/adamssongintro-tabs-69013.html

    I see another tab just tuned down a whole step
    http://www.azchords.com/b/blink182-tabs-2/adamssonglive-tabs-69015.html
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  • BloodpisserBloodpisser Posts: 59
    Born of a broken man - RATM
    Drown - Smashing Pumpkins


  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,382
    Is No Shelter by RATM in drop D?
  • BALLBOYBALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,030
    Blind Dogs by Soundgarden is in drop d but there are no lessons out there for it
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