35 best songs in drop D tuning

Today we go over our pick for 35 of the best drop d songs on guitar. These range from super simple beginner songs to some more challenging riffs!

0:00 Moby Dick by Led Zeppelin
0:40 Dear Prudence by The Beatles
1:20 Everlong by Foo Fighters
1:47 Never Going Back Again by Fleetwood Mac
2:21 Harvest Moon by Neil Young
3:21 Bat Country by Avenged Sevenfold
4:29 Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana
5:22 Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine
5:52 You are My Sunshine by Chris Stapleton
6:52 Schism by Tool
7:28 All Nightmare Long by Metallica
7:53 Decode by Paramore
8:34 Home by Dream Theater
9:01 I Won’t Give Up by Jason Mraz
9:43 If Eternity Should Fail by Iron Maiden
10:24 Last Resort by Papa Roach
10:52 Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters
11:32 Meant to Live by Switchfoot
12:00 Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr by Trivium
12:23 One by Ed Sheeran
13:11 What I’ve Done by Linkin Park
13:52 Ruin by Lamb of God
14:13 Sugar, We’re Goin Down by Fall Out Boy
14:46 Ten Years Gone by Led Zeppelin
15:20- Never Too Late by Three Days Grace
15:54 New Born by Muse
16:26 On A Plain by Nirvana
16:53 Sonne by Rammstein
17:11 Spoonman by Soundgarden
17:37 Forty Six & 2 by Tool
18:08 Unholy Confessions by Avenged Sevenfold
18:33 Unnatural Selection by Muse
19:05 Wake Up by Rage Against The Machine
19:34 Whatsername by Green Day
20:15 The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson

[carsonsensing]

Can’t Find My Way Home - Steve Winwood- acoustic /fireplace version - standard drop D tuning dropped down to a C - pretty awesome version

[JuskoLord]

Here’s also some of my favourite Drop D songs:
Slither by Velvet Revolver
Animal I have become by 3 Days Grace

[chaos]

Good work. Nice to see a list with a few more eclectic choices in there than the same ‘top 10’ format that seems to repeat everywhere.
I can see that you’re being deliberately rigid with your playing too, which then makes it more intuitive to people just learning it.
Lastly, I’ve always said there’s a lot to be said for simplicity. You selected a clean, crunch, and semi-heavy tone that articulated well for every song. That also showed learners that no, you don’t need to spend $200 for that friggin plugin. Look at what you’ve already got! The bands that wrote these songs would’ve made it work.

[isaiaso-o]

Heart shaped box is not on that tuning, the same idea but on c#

[RobotronSage]

Thanks for making these, my guitar is basically permanently in D (now double D [DADGBD]) and the chords are a bit ''trickier'' and because it's E standard is so, standard, it's a bit difficult looking for good songs in D tuning
(also there are so many f***ing songs man, where to start? wow, lol)

Anyway i've been looking for songs to play for a girl I love

I like ''dear prudence''
I think I shall also learn ''monkey wrench'' and ''you are my sunshine''

Thanks
Also some of these sound great with how you play

[twofingerspirits]

This was awesome! Thank you. What song is the hardest to play? Never going back again looks pretty tough.

[mmaviator]

I thought I was going crazy bc alot of these rhythms/riffs didnt sound right so I had to go back and check and I was right. Alot were off. Heart shaped box, Killing in the name, bat country etc.

[edstewart]

How 'bout "Don't Misunderstand Me" by Rossington Collins band

[hello_alpine]

Show Me How To Live by Audioslave gets my nod

[WibblyWobblyBob]

You missed a few: Pink Floyd: Run Like Hell, Pink Floyd: Goodbye Blue Sky, Bon Jovi: Dead Or Alive. Soundgarden: Blackhole Sun

[joefromaccounting]

*includes Schism riff which doesn’t touch the dropped D string at all*

[zakkybagis]

nice one man, btw what string gauge size do you use ?

[davidlelkington]

Where’s whatever you want by status quo?

[lorcansavage]

Grace by Jeff Buckley is a lovely one on drop d

[scottcecil]

Excellent ideas, it's really hard to see where you're fingers are at, it would be better if you played it at Full speed then slow down a bit to get the jist. I can't keep up.

[kmeleonvenegas]

Interesting that I've always played Monkey Wrench in standard E tunning and now I discover it's easier in Drop D lol

[soundthesirenfancast]

Any list of Drop D songs that does NOT include King's X, the real godfathers of grunge and Drop D tuning, isn't a relevant list.

[laurentpedemay]

Great list but a best of D drop without Unchained and Lay it down!!!! my age there😆

[jamiecampbell]

Dude wtf with all the bad ass guitars $30, 000 collection at least 🤬