Drop D

by **origamikid** on Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:12 pm

yea i really cant tune for shit, my ears can detect that its out of tune but in no way would they be able to get it back...

Arrgghh the arguments lol

Why do people think drop tuning is gay may i ask?

As i said before i think some thrash bands wouldnt be happy about that?

by **Lev** on Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:16 pm

Most would hate drop tuning because at one point in time, to be a metal band all you needed to do was drop to D and play D, F, G in different rhythms (see Pantera) to become popular. It was all just faggish repeatative bollocks.

All guitars should just be seven strings (B-E) and all basses should be six strings (B-C).

by **James** on Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:40 pm

Yeah, I was watching some clips of Adrian Smith 'guitar lessons', and he started talking about his phase with his side-project Psycho Motel. Surprise surprise, it was the early 90s so he D-tuned... he demonstrated the riffs he wrote for it and they were GANT. And ths is Adrian Smith we're talking about.

It's not that no good music can be achieved with drop D, but it seems to have a tendancy to make your riffs fucking shit.

by **meluaz** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:01 am

i would like to see 7 strings technical thrash metal bands

by **Metal Iain** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:22 am

You should all just trying to play in Open E. It totally fucks you over and you can't play anything that doesn't sound like Joni Mitchell.

by **GoreBastard** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:11 am

origamikid wrote:
GoreBastard wrote:I always tune to standard D instead of drop D, So the low string to high is D, G, C, F, A, D. That way, you can still play standard powerchords, but you can still do the 'backwards powerchords' and the 'slayer 1 finger power chord'.

Personally I'm not a giant fan of drop tunings, but they are heavy. Good for playing chuggy riffs, but good for making gay nu-metal...

I dont think onslaught and slayer would be very happy to find out they have been making nu metal all these years lol

Some of Slayers later stuff is drop tuned, but the rest is in standard E flat or something.
Best way to play thrash is to just learn the entire Reign in Blood album all the way through. Once you can play that in standard tuning, you'll realise that there's no point in using drop tunings!

by **thrash metal maniac** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:39 pm

^^^ Too true

meluaz wrote:i would like to see 7 strings technical thrash metal bands

haha, it'd just end up sounding like cannibal corpse

by **meluaz** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:27 pm

something like heathen or mastery

by **Lev** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:52 pm

Or that Russian thrash band we found a bit ago, they were good.

by **The Fourth Norseman** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:58 pm

zurab, me and boove used to be tech thrash cravers, check out bands like watchtower, mekong delta, coroner blah blah

by **thrashduck** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:08 pm

Watchtower are rubbish!

Other two are bets.

by **The Fourth Norseman** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:16 pm

nah, jarzombek is pretty tidy

by **The Fourth Norseman** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:16 pm

also how could i forget toxik, probably the best of them

by **meluaz** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:05 pm

i know all of em pretty well except toxik, i think coroner are rising to be my favourite thrash band

by **Dian Wei** on Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:06 pm

Toxik are amazing

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