Machine Head--Now I Lay Thee Down.

[Arm0r]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCn4IEv31Y&feature=related

This was my fave song off this particular CD, was listening to it today and thought id post it....not the hardest song but at the same time it is  give em a listen.

[|iR|Focalor]

Dropped D tuning is for douchebags. Like this guy. Nice collar. This is why some people should be banned from posting shit on youtube for the rest of eternity...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR5-eSWDLw8

[haunted]

lmfao. great video... favorited. Drop D tuning is pretty much for douche bags man, especially if your a douche who ONLY plays in it. I personally play in drop for about 10 mins to every 2 hours i play in standard, if that. It's fun in certain doses, just from how easy it is to do (by easy i mean 10x harder than what this guy is doing, but still easy....lol)

I wasn't always like that though. I unfortunately learned guitar in drop tuning(self taught)... so it took several metallica, kreator, and iced earth covers to get me into standard tuning metal shape, as well as a bunch of classic blues and rock songs. Learning in drop is basically my only regret with guitar, although i like where my playing ability is at right now..

Being more on topic.... Machinehead isn't exactly my cup of tea. I've seen them live and know many people who love them, even several who say it's their favorite band..even good guitarists. I'm fairly biased to bands that use drop tuning though. For me if it's drop tuning, it better be alice in chains, have something unique about it, or be fun to play... like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqSJhB-BsD0

[|iR|Focalor]

That's basically how I started playing. My dad had an old little Sears & Roebuck (maybe, the headstock is blank) kids sized guitar with about 3 strings missing on it that I found in the basement one day. I started plinking around on it and eventually figured out how to play a few little riffs on one string. So he heard me one day and was kinda surprised that I had figured that out, so he bought me a Hohner acoustic for Xmas one year. I tuned it wierd to where I could play with one finger across several strings at once to play something similar to power chords and learned a little more. Then I got a few guitar magazines and figured out some basic chords so after that I never really used anything but standard tuning. Then power chords. Then a few leads. A little about certain scales. Got a blues slide cassette tape and started learning a little about that, just beginner stuff. Took everything I had learned and practiced it over and over and over and built on it, piecing little things together here and there. I certainly don't knock anyone for taking formal lessons, that just wouldn't have been the proper way for me to go about it. If my folks had paid to give me lessons or something, it probably would have turned into "work" which would have turned me off to playing guitar.

Dropped D has some advantages, but I prefer to keep it in standard tuning for accessibility of notes when playing rhythm parts. If theres some little accent to a riff that requires a degree of speed, its just harder to reach two extra frets higher on that lower string to hit that note and return to your previous position on the higher string. Max Cavalera of Soulfly (ex-Sepultura frontman) always used that shitty dropped D tuning. He also only used the lower 4 strings, the highest 2 he never even put on his guitar. I read an interview with him around the time Sepultura's Roots came out where he was talking about the possibility of a guitar company producing a Max Cavalera signature series guitar that would have only 4 strings. Pfft, dudes fuckin' retarded for ever thinking any company in their right mind would make such a waste of perfectly good wood.