Any Drop D fans?

guitarkid4143

guitarkid4143

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I've come to love it, as on my Epi, the strings are a lot easier to bend, and anything that I play in standard tuning, I just play a note higher. I love it. Anyone else?

-gk
 
Re: Any Drop D fans?

I usually have one in either Drop-D or open D-Major.
 
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The band I play in uses Drop C and D standard(Full step down) and I love it. Drop C has a bit more.....hair than Drop D I think.
 
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As much as I goof on drop tunings, I do enjoy playing in drop D once in a while. Drop C#, too! (Is that what they call it when you tune your guitar to E-flat and drop your top string a whole step?)
 
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I used to play my LP Goldtop in Drop C# all the time back in early high school (jeez I miss those times). I still fool with my Campellone archtop in Drop-D and that always sounds incredible for chord melodies!
 
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I tend to play std but lately I was learning a song and it was in drop d. It's simple and fast to tune one string and opens up some cool possibilities. Sometimes I tune the whole guitar to C# and it's fun but that's few and far between. I should mess with a half step and step down. I might like those....
 
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I need to buy another guitar. I hate using one guitar for standard and dropped.

Dropped D is my second favorite to standard. Fun as hell.
 
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for serious? I friggin hate drop tunings.

That said, we used to play in Drop D in one of my old bands, but we played it almost like a 7 string...we rode the A string like it was the E, and then we'd go lower once in a while to the D string for the br00tz. Still didn't like it though.

If I want low tunings now, I just drop every string down a whole step (D standard) or two steps (C standard).
 
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I do about 95% of my playing in drop D. It suits my playing style and I much prefer the chord voicings it opens up that you can't really get in a regular tuning.

From the sound of your OP, you're talking about D standard, though.
 
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every so often I'll drop low E to D, but usually I just end up playing Overkill's Skullcrusher 800 times, so I return it to normal.
 
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Huge fan of the Drop D - it's easier to come up with some pretty sweet chord variations. Really don't understand some peoples dislike or hate for drop D, it's truly not that much different than standard. Play a G power chord in drop D and now play the same chord in drop D... no difference....

No if you're talking about D standard or drop C, then yea that's a major difference.
 
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grumptruck said:
School me on these voicings... It is very odd for me to drop just one string.

I get the power chord, I just get lost... IS it really that hard to use two fingers instead of one?
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Well, powerchords are generally pretty boring no matter how many fingers it takes to grab that root-octave-fifth.
 
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Kam said:
I wonder why? :scratchch
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I don't know if it's the same with you, but almost all the singers I played with had the "Drop D" misconception. "so you're going play in drop d, that's going be soooo much heavier....."
 
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The joy of having mulitple guitars is having them set up for different tunings.

I have guitars set up for standard, 1/2 step down, full step down, drop D, and C#.

Recently I've been contemplating which guitar to play in DADGBD (not sure what its called). I heard that this tuning was Jimmy Page's secret.
 
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