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jeph:
Learn "Blackwater Park" or "Ghost of Perdition" (which is supposedly in DADGAD, but sounds to me like standard drop-D) by Opeth if you're looking for drop-D songs that won't make you feel "lazy."

Or hell, anything by Hum. That bridge riff in "Stars" is super-fun to play.

AlexAttack:
whats wrong with drop d?  when you play an instrument if you can find a way of doing something that makes things easier, without fucking up your technique, then do it. its not lazy its helpful. also it sounds cool in certain styles of music.

jeph:
I don't think drop-D is really any "easier." The only things it really makes any simpler than standard tuning are low 5th chords, sus-chords, and drone melodies in D. And if you can't finger a standard barre chord easily in STANDARD, I posit that you have plenty of practicing to do REGARDLESS of what tuning you prefer.

What it DOES give you is a slightly wider tonal reach and access to some neat new chords. My favorite drop-d fingering of all time is:


--- Code: -------4----
----5----
----6----
----7----
----4----
----4----

--- End code ---

It's basically impossible to finger that chord in standard, and it sounds REALLY cool. Slide that fingering up and down the fretboard and you'll find lots of neat progressions in a hurry. I use it in practically every song I've ever written.

Mikendher:
a major seventh kind of, I'll have to try it :-)

A#maj7 with F# in the bass, interesting...

Johnny C:
Actually it is just a regular Amaj7 with said F# in the bass.

I came up with a neat chord progression for acoustic guitar. Capo 5:


--- Code: -----2--0--0--
--2--3--3--
--2--0--0--
--0--2--0--
--x--2--2--
--x--0--3--

--- End code ---

Simple but effective. Play it kinda tropically and see how it sounds! FUN.

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