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02-20-2006, 03:43 AM
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Silly question no doubt but I see many of the modern rock songs talking about dropping D, which I take it is down tuning the E string to D.....yeah? Cos if that's all it is, I'll be away playing that Gorrilaz "Demon Days" riff that's doing my head in.  |
02-20-2006, 04:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Denver, PA | | | Yeah that's all it is. Tune DADG instead of EADG. |
02-22-2006, 12:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: DuPont, Washington | | | If I have to play something in D, I prefer to drop all the strings a step so that it feels the same.
Tool plays in drop D. It's pretty well required that you drop only the D to play their songs, or else it makes some of the riffs extremely hard to play (i.e. Scism, 46&2, etc). |
02-22-2006, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by scourge If I have to play something in D, I prefer to drop all the strings a step so that it feels the same. | This is commonly called D standard. Your bass would be tuned in DGCF. Some bands take this a step farther and drop their D string to C (Mudvayne, Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, and most metal bands) so the bass is tuned CGCF.
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02-22-2006, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Vorak This is commonly called D standard. Your bass would be tuned in DGCF. Some bands take this a step farther and drop their D string to C (Mudvayne, Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, and most metal bands) so the bass is tuned CGCF. | that standard D thing is interesting... I hate tuning to drop D because it always makes me feel like a bass noob again.
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02-22-2006, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Israel | | My band did a song which uses drop D on our last gig. I decided that it would suck, and kept the standard tuning, transposing stuff when needed. It turned out to be quite fine eventually  |
02-23-2006, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by GSRLessard14 that standard D thing is interesting... I hate tuning to drop D because it always makes me feel like a bass noob again. | Well there are some talented bands that play in drop D tuning. Listen to Lamb of God. Their bass player and guitar players are phenominal and they tune to drop D. They don't just do easy power chords though like most nu-metal bands. Listen to "Laid to Rest". The bass follows the guitar part and the guitar part is pretty hard.
Check them out here.
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02-23-2006, 10:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Ridiculous
Drop-D, hell, any tuning is just fine. Don't let people push their opinions of what's "right" or "wrong". You can play a power chord by using one finger...big whoop. It's not like playing power chords is hard in standard either. Drop-D has a fuller sound. If you write a lot of stuff in "D" Drop-D is a wonderful tuning as you get that beefy open D. |
02-23-2006, 10:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Ponchatoula, LA | | | Drop D doesn't really make bass any easier, so there's no reason to disrespect it. However, I do think that it makes guitar too easy....
IMO of course.
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