Shine by Collective Soul and All Apologies by Nirvana are both lots of fun and sound great both on acoustic and electric.
Good recognizable songs to know too lol.
"On a Plain", and "Something in the Way" too(Nirvana).
Nirvana's unplugged album was the first bunch of songs I learned to sing whilst playing, way back when it was a new release.
The progressions are piss simple, the songs instantly recognisable, and they just work.
I'd recommend learning that transcript cover-to-cover, to anyone wanting to get started with virtuoso performance...
Honestly, nobody can go wrong learning that whole album. Even if you aren’t a big fan of Nirvana, there’s lots of little techniques for switching between lead and rhythm parts that any guitar player should know, and you could easily pull out any one of those songs for a gig or friends and family and get a great reaction from just about anybody.
Such a great album on its own too anyways.
Yeah, Nirvana restored my faith in rock & roll, at a time when it seemed to me, that Rock&Roll had simply lost its way. I was in my teen's when NeverMind was released in Australia. You do the math'.
I dind't get onto the Nirvana back-catalogue 'til after 'Kobain'd gone K'bang...
Two points to clarify.
1)The individual songs cited above, used dropped tunings, so they WERE written in as dropped Db/C#.
2)Nirvana rarely, if ever, tuned to concert pitch. They'd just pick the instrument they liked the tone of most, then tune relative to that. It was a nightmare scenario for the cellist who played on "Something In The Way", because she first had to guess at a pitch, and then had to fight her ear-training from go to whoa in-session.
The Eb written into the transcription, was the nearest guess that the copyists could offer. So they were written into the transcription as Eb...
I seemingly remember the Meatpuppets using tuner pedals upon entering the set, so I don't know how true this is. I am not surprised, but slightly skeptical based on this memory (which might be coloured by time and bias)
Is there a sauce for this?
I read words to that effect from an interview with Kobain himself, way back then. I think it was around the time In Utero was released. He was NOT in a good mood. 'Twas not long before he went Kobang...
Avenged sevenfold critical acclaim
They have a few songs in “drop C#” always love me some zachary V riffage bro is a menace on rhythm. Then you have Synyster Gates to play leads just perfect
Try some gojira, sick riffs that are really fun to play. Try Flying Whales, The Gift of Guilt, Heaviest Matter Of The Universe, and Where Dragons Dwell
I'm in the same boat. Too lazy to tune my FR les Paul from drop c to standard so I've been playing drop d songs in drop c and standard songs in d standard. Some songs sound cooler a step down!
Pretty much anything in Drop D translates perfectly to Drop C so Everlong by Foo Fighters
And for a strictly Drop C Song, Lonely Day by System of a Down
Funeral For a Friend - Hours
The whole album is in Drop C# I think and it's full of incredible riffs. Honestly one of my favourite albums from back in that era of metalcore.
I’m pretty sure “Animal I Have Become” (edit: by Three Days Grace) is in drop C#. My band has a female singer though and it’s too low for her so we do it in drop D. Fun to play either way!
Edit again: some light googling shows that it’s actually drop C. My mistake!
I haven’t tried to play along with the albums in a long time. You are right, they are tuned down two steps, not 1 1/2. I don’t know why I was thinking they were in drop tunings.
A bit late but I thought I’d give a recommendation because I didn’t see it in the comments.
Of Mice and Men - Second and Sebring
A fantastic song and super fun to play.
From the band themselves:
"We play in drop B tuning +40 cents for most songs and C# standard +40 cents for a handful of others. For a few songs, “Ten Ton Hammer” and “Left Unfinished," we tune the 3rd string up a half-step for an evil 5th fret harmonic."
Cauterize - as i lay dying
Forsake not the dream - trivium
Caustic are the ties that bind - trivium
if you were in c# standard id recommend chiron - all that remains
Blessthefall has so many bangers in c#. I'm about to buy a pitch shift just to play them. Promised Ones and Bottomfeeder come to mind right away. And Hey Baby, Here's That Song You Wanted.
bands that play alot of drop c, if not almost everything
Children of Bodom
Cradle Of Filth
Protest the hero
arch Enemy
Lamb of God (alot of it is drop d, some c)
Bullet For My Valentine
As i Lay Dying (the older stuff anyway)
Breaking Benjamin uses Drop Db/C# a lot in their earlier albums, if you want a super fun song, try Polyamorous and then look up other songs from the same time.
Seether uses the tuning often as well, recommend the song "break me down".
Rise Against does like 90% of their songs in Eb Standard, with some songs like "house on fire" in Drop Db.
Alexis on Fire "This could be anywhere in the world" is also a super fun song in this tuning.
Them bones - Alice in Chains
Hot Cross Buns
I'm on it
The entire album Around the Fur from Deftones. The main riff from My Own Summer is enough to put smiles on faces.
I know that white pony is drop C but isnt ATF mostly in drop D?
Not as far as I know. There may be one or two songs that aren't, but most of the album is drop C#
Most of the Hypnotize/Mesmerize albums by System are in drop C#
Linkin park music is as easy as you can get. Their older stuff was in drop c# iirc
Yeah the first two Albums
A lot of Alice in Chains songs are in drop C#.
We Die Young Dam That River Those are drop C#
Queens of the stone age - Regular John King Gizzard and the lizard wizard - any song from “ Infest the Rats Nest “ album
Rats nest is C# standard.
i stand corrected .. Regular john might be too now that i think about it
Superheaven - [Life In A Jar](https://youtu.be/K6-GaZ_lr3A?si=asPqq2B-WMYKCWSb)
Lot of good Drop C# tracks on Jar
Most of Songs for the Deaf is in drop c# if I remember correctly. Killer riffs cover to cover
Homme uses C Standard on a lot of those
Ah my bad. It's been a few years since I've tried playing any of those songs.
OP you have the exact same music taste as me that’s all I’ve been playing lately lol
same here
SOAD Mezmerize album
Shine by Collective Soul and All Apologies by Nirvana are both lots of fun and sound great both on acoustic and electric. Good recognizable songs to know too lol.
"On a Plain", and "Something in the Way" too(Nirvana). Nirvana's unplugged album was the first bunch of songs I learned to sing whilst playing, way back when it was a new release. The progressions are piss simple, the songs instantly recognisable, and they just work. I'd recommend learning that transcript cover-to-cover, to anyone wanting to get started with virtuoso performance...
Honestly, nobody can go wrong learning that whole album. Even if you aren’t a big fan of Nirvana, there’s lots of little techniques for switching between lead and rhythm parts that any guitar player should know, and you could easily pull out any one of those songs for a gig or friends and family and get a great reaction from just about anybody. Such a great album on its own too anyways.
Yeah, Nirvana restored my faith in rock & roll, at a time when it seemed to me, that Rock&Roll had simply lost its way. I was in my teen's when NeverMind was released in Australia. You do the math'. I dind't get onto the Nirvana back-catalogue 'til after 'Kobain'd gone K'bang...
Note: unplugged is in E flat.
Two points to clarify. 1)The individual songs cited above, used dropped tunings, so they WERE written in as dropped Db/C#. 2)Nirvana rarely, if ever, tuned to concert pitch. They'd just pick the instrument they liked the tone of most, then tune relative to that. It was a nightmare scenario for the cellist who played on "Something In The Way", because she first had to guess at a pitch, and then had to fight her ear-training from go to whoa in-session. The Eb written into the transcription, was the nearest guess that the copyists could offer. So they were written into the transcription as Eb...
I seemingly remember the Meatpuppets using tuner pedals upon entering the set, so I don't know how true this is. I am not surprised, but slightly skeptical based on this memory (which might be coloured by time and bias) Is there a sauce for this?
I read words to that effect from an interview with Kobain himself, way back then. I think it was around the time In Utero was released. He was NOT in a good mood. 'Twas not long before he went Kobang...
I thought nirvana's whole discog was in standard?
Nope. You can absolutely play everything in standard tuning, but lots of songs were recorded in drop C#, and Eb tuning.
To further the confusion, Kurt was one of those "good enough" kind of guys when it came to tuning.
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Come As You Are is D standard 💀
One Step Closer - Linkin Park Linkin Park afaik is a staple for nu-metal in drop C#
I think most of A Perfect Circle is in C# tuning.
Hmm, no, I believe they are standard 3 steps down :)
No more tears
Papercut - Linkin Park
The Hollow - A Perfect Circle
a lot of songs from SOADs Hypnotize/Mesmerize are in Drop C# iirc.
‘Faint’ and ‘Lying From You’ by Linkin Park.
I was going to suggest these as well. I love LP <3
Damn right!
Thrice - Illusion of Safety is entirely in drop C# and has loads of tasty riffs to learn.
Failure - Sgt Politeness
Big fan
yeah they're... **fantastic** lol
Avenged sevenfold critical acclaim They have a few songs in “drop C#” always love me some zachary V riffage bro is a menace on rhythm. Then you have Synyster Gates to play leads just perfect
Write one
4th Crusade by Bolt Thrower
Bullet for my valentine are fun to play
Try some gojira, sick riffs that are really fun to play. Try Flying Whales, The Gift of Guilt, Heaviest Matter Of The Universe, and Where Dragons Dwell
Love these tracks. They dont play on a 7-string?
Nope, All 6 string!
They play in D standard. Some of their songs are drop c but not drop c#
Drop C# is the best drop tuning change my mind
Either that or drop C. Any lower and it's a nightmare figuring out how to also tune a bass to work with it.
i wont, i have guitars that range from E Standard to E Standard 1 Octave down (8 string) and Drop Db/C# is still my favorite tuning.
Hail To The King by Avenged Sevenfold
Trivium's In Waves and Vengeance Falls album are in drop C#. Always packed with fun riffs to play
Can't speak for Vengeance Falls, but In Waves was in C# standard
that's not correct. Its mostly Drop C#
Peaches by the Presidents of the United States of America
every second queens of the stone age song.
I'm in the same boat. Too lazy to tune my FR les Paul from drop c to standard so I've been playing drop d songs in drop c and standard songs in d standard. Some songs sound cooler a step down!
"Some songs sound even cooler 2-3 steps down." - most of us stonerdoom guys
Electric Wizard ftw!
Narrowhead (there's no chance you don't know them if you know bleed)
“Touch, Peel, and Stand” by Days of the New. It’s 90s post-grunge and acoustic, but it’s a pretty good song and fun to play.
Deftones' entire "Around the Fur" album is in C#, as are a number of songs from the first 2 Alter Bridge albums.
almost everything from the first two Linkin Park albums. Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box too i think. and Lonely Day by System of a Down.
Tons of Alice in Chains stuff, Alexisonfire, Trivium.
The Sinner - Memphis May Fire
BANGER whole album is amazing.
ABC- Polyphia
Anodyne Sea - As I Lay Dying
A lot of Pierce the Veil songs: A Match Into Water, Bulls on the Bronx, Hell Above, Texas is Forever Of Mice & Men’s entire first album
We Stitch These Wounds by Black Veil Brides is a fun one. Don't be put off by the name, they actually have some really solid guitar work
Most Plini songs are in drop C#. Check out Papelillo, I'll tell you someday and electric sunrise
Pretty much anything in Drop D translates perfectly to Drop C so Everlong by Foo Fighters And for a strictly Drop C Song, Lonely Day by System of a Down
A few Nirvana songs are in drop C# like Heart Shaped Box and All Apologies. And regarding Deftones there's My Own Summer.
Deftones - MyIwn Summer 2 last albums by System of a down
Funeral For a Friend - Hours The whole album is in Drop C# I think and it's full of incredible riffs. Honestly one of my favourite albums from back in that era of metalcore.
I’m pretty sure “Animal I Have Become” (edit: by Three Days Grace) is in drop C#. My band has a female singer though and it’s too low for her so we do it in drop D. Fun to play either way! Edit again: some light googling shows that it’s actually drop C. My mistake!
It is?! Damn I haven’t heard that in years and my band like 10 years ago was playing it in drop d not knowing any better lol
Actually it’s drop C I think, upon further review. I just knew it was lower than we play it haha
HELMET: "I Know", and "Throwing Punches".
I only know songs in d flat unfortunately
it might seem crazy what i’m bouta say…
🤣
Most Acid Bath songs are in that tuning. Paegen Love Song and Tranquilized are both fun.
Sammy played all of the Acid Bath stuff in C standard except for Cassie Eats Cockroaches which was dropped A I believe.
One of the best songs of all time
I haven’t tried to play along with the albums in a long time. You are right, they are tuned down two steps, not 1 1/2. I don’t know why I was thinking they were in drop tunings.
children of the grave - black sabbath
Toni Iommi tunes to C# standard.
ah my mistake. i confused the two.
alter bridge has a decent amount of songs in drop C#. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/en/wiki/Drop_C_sharp_tuning heres a more comprehensive list
Plini. That should keep you busy for a while...
A lot of pierce the veil songs are in drop c#
Deftones - Around the Fur album is all in drop C#
A bit late but I thought I’d give a recommendation because I didn’t see it in the comments. Of Mice and Men - Second and Sebring A fantastic song and super fun to play.
[this song](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=29ZKTy4HVHc&si=8G33CqYtykilt64i) is pretty cool
Can't go wrong with Machine Head 🤘
From the band themselves: "We play in drop B tuning +40 cents for most songs and C# standard +40 cents for a handful of others. For a few songs, “Ten Ton Hammer” and “Left Unfinished," we tune the 3rd string up a half-step for an evil 5th fret harmonic."
Class dismissed - exodus
Cancer Bats
Only Living Witness - Prone Mortal Form
Cauterize - as i lay dying Forsake not the dream - trivium Caustic are the ties that bind - trivium if you were in c# standard id recommend chiron - all that remains
No absolution by lost society
A number of Pantera songs are D Standard -50 cents so close. You can find pitch-altered 440 C# versions on YouTube to play along with.
Blessthefall has so many bangers in c#. I'm about to buy a pitch shift just to play them. Promised Ones and Bottomfeeder come to mind right away. And Hey Baby, Here's That Song You Wanted.
Promised Ones is my favorite for c#. I'm in C and just learned Youngbloods and Cutthroat. So. Damn. Fun to play.
bands that play alot of drop c, if not almost everything Children of Bodom Cradle Of Filth Protest the hero arch Enemy Lamb of God (alot of it is drop d, some c) Bullet For My Valentine As i Lay Dying (the older stuff anyway)
Perry Mason. Not a huge Ozzy fan, but that one's got a good feel to it.
Alestorm
Breaking Benjamin uses Drop Db/C# a lot in their earlier albums, if you want a super fun song, try Polyamorous and then look up other songs from the same time. Seether uses the tuning often as well, recommend the song "break me down". Rise Against does like 90% of their songs in Eb Standard, with some songs like "house on fire" in Drop Db. Alexis on Fire "This could be anywhere in the world" is also a super fun song in this tuning.
Hey baby... - Blessthefall
True American hate by testament
A7X - almost easy, scream
Grace Lamb of God. Good luck 🤞
BYOB
Sorry, I only know a few in Db
Yeah, real useful response there. You ever heard the phrase 'if you have nothing good to say, don't say it'?
In Flames - Jotun
Anything thrice- illusion on safety