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[Tommygunn]

After having to restring both basses and having to tune them, I tuned my Dirnt BEAD and my Steiny Spirit DADG. I have already found that DADG is a lot harder to come up with cool stuff. Can anyone recommend me a song played in Drop-D, to help me get in the swing of things?

If I posted this in the wrong section, sorry.

Thanks guys.

 

[splitcoilsenior]

It depends on what music you like, dawg.

 

[Tommygunn]

Anything other than screemo really.

I have to add that I'm really enjoying the low tension of the BEAD.

 

[Yakob]

Try learning "NASA" by Dance Gavin Dance.

Is it a bit screamy? Yeah.

Is the bass line great? Most definitely.

 

[MRDOOM]

Sober-Tool
By the Way-RHCP
Testify-Rage Against the Machine(+ a bunch of other Rage Songs)
The Love Song- Marilyn Manson
The Middle-Jimmy Eat World
Walk-Pantera

I've just decided to keep one of my basses in DADG so Im trying to learn a bunch more songs in that tuning.

 

[Tommygunn]

Cool bassline. I'll only play the first part of it lol, sounds techno kinda before the screaming lol

 

[Tommygunn]

Sober-Tool
By the Way-RHCP
Testify-Rage Against the Machine(+ a bunch of other Rage Songs)
The Love Song- Marilyn Manson
The Middle-Jimmy Eat World
Walk-Pantera

I've just decided to keep one of my basses in DADG so Im trying to learn a bunch more songs in that tuning.

I'm a huge rage, JEW, and RCHP fan so that'll help lol

 

[bassplayer7768521]

Take The Power Back by Rage Against the Machine has a heavy, easy to play slap bass line in that Tuning.

 

[Yakob]

Oh, thought of another one:

Understanding In A Car Crash by Thursday. Not nearly as screamy, and the bassline is twice as good.

 

[christw]

Try learning "NASA" by Dance Gavin Dance.

Is it a bit screamy? Yeah.

Is the bass line great? Most definitely.

They were fun to see live! I saw them with Escape The Fate who blew me away. Ronnie was still around back then. Man, that was a minute ago!

 

[EagleMoon]

Anything by Tool is in drop D, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[YYZDMV46&2]

everything by tool is in drop d besides parabola i believe. but seriously check out some tool, chancellors a genious.

 

[DerHoggz]

I am having a BLAST!

 

[Yakob]

They were fun to see live! I saw them with Escape The Fate who blew me away. Ronnie was still around back then. Man, that was a minute ago!

I saw them at Warped last year and they were incredible; easily one of the best live bands on the whole tour. They were one of the few bands that day who managed to sound BETTER live than on the recording!

This year, despite having fewer (in my opinion) good bands, they had a nice number of GREAT bands. The kind of bands who, after seeing them live, it ruins the recordings for you because the live show is so much better (Dillinger, Enter Shikari, Four Year Strong, Reel Big Fish). Plus, this year there was enough "staggering" between good and great bands that I managed to see every band I had gone there to watch !

 

[Burnttwaffle]

gift of paralysis by envy on the coast

 

[RFord04]

I'll be the third to say Rage Against the Machine is a great place to start. The song Freedom is one of my personal favorites, off their self-titled debut.

Also, another that comes to mind is the song Circles, by Incubus, on the album Morning View. Dropped D is really an easy tuning to play in once you learn songs like these, but it's also easy to sound repetitive too.

 

[makanudo]

im broken by pantera should help playing D on the B=)

 

[LDonnie]

I think 46&2 is a blast to play and also something that you can learn from. By the way, the ''BLAST'' remark was pointed to Marcus Miller I believe and the song is a uhm ''wench'' to learn .

 

[Jimbob Jones]

Muse: New Born.

A fun song to play, and the 'easy version' of the verse gets you used to the position change on the low D string.

 

[Tommygunn]

Thanks guy!