Top Ten Songs in Drop D Tuning
Drop D Tuning is a very simple type of tuning where the low E string on a guitar is tuned down a whole step to D. It should not be confused with D standard, where all of the strings are tuned down a whole step, or Double Drop D, where both E strings are tuned to D. I scrounged the Internet and my own personal knowledge to come up with some old-school and some modern stuff. Feel free to add more examples.
As far as I know, this is the only Zeppelin song in Drop D. It's a really solid riff.
A lot of times, John Fogerty would use D standard tuning. But after looking up several different tabs for the song and watching him play it, I concluded that it's in Drop D.
Jonny Greenwood plays the guitar riff in Drop D, creating one of the coolest riffs in the Radiohead catalog. They also use Drop D on Stop Whispering and Electioneering.
This song is so thick and sludgy for The Beatles, and that's partially down to the tuning.
Matt Bellamy uses Drop D quite a bit; this is the most notorious example.
Brian May also used Drop D on "Fat Bottomed Girls"; in 2008, he actually played the riff from "White Man" as an intro to FBG.
Just one of many examples of Tom Morello using Drop D.
The tuning affected the way Dave Grohl puts the chords together.
The band's most famous song. The riff itself has a slither-like feel to it (which makes the title seem apt).
This song is the heaviest track on Be Here Now by far.
This one also doesn't qualify. It's D Standard again.
An awesome riff, obviously, but it's in D Standard. Please don't vote.
Neil Young frequently used Double Drop D rather than just Drop D. I don't know if these songs for certain are in Double Drop D, but there's a good chance they are.
Drop D Tuning was one of several alternate tunings that Soundgarden used.
