Any Drop D fans?

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grumptruck said:
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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Depends on how many fingers you have.....


Seriously though, drop D allows to more voicing by adding some serious stretches that wouldn't be possible in a typical standard bar formation. MOreover, you can do some serious riffage/fast chord variations in drop d.
 
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mwalluk said:
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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I was just poking fun at your typo. :)

I've never actually played any songs in drop D with a band, apart from covers and randomly jamming with a drummer friend of mine.
 
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Kam said:
I was just poking fun at your typo. :)

I've never actually played any songs in drop D with a band, apart from covers and randomly jamming with a drummer friend of mine.
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Didn't even realize I made a typo, ha.

If you mainly play in standard I HIGHLY recommend switching to drop tunings.

It's awesome. SOmetimes you get stuck in a rutt in the same tuning, songs start sounding the same, then you switch to a different tuning and new ideas of inspiration spur from it.
 
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guitarkid4143 said:
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
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You must mean D standard, not drop D, correct?

I sometimes play in double drop D tuning, but not plain drop D.
 
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I used to tune to B standard, pretty much since I started playing 20 years ago (I was VERY into Carcass). I used to think dropped tunings were cheating, then I played with some dudes that only played in drop D for a while and I learned how to use it without sounding like Helmet all the time.

I'm about 50/50 C#/Drop B now, and 1 guitar is set up with open D for my attempts at slide.
 
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One of my stage 12 strings is kept in a drop D tuning. Since we're acoustic, it gives a lot of heft to songs where a drone note is adventageous ("Copperhead Road", "Gold Dust Woman", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Goin' to California", etc), but I find it a bit limiting in key selection. At the same time, I LOVE that low D.
 
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