Anyone play guitar?

[nametakennow]

Hey guys. I've been sorta teaching myself guitar for a year and a half. I've been writing a ton of songs (somewhere around 26 right now) and stuff. Anyways, I really like the sound of Drop D, but I don't know many chords in it (I've been scouring the internet for them). Post up any you know, and anything else that you think is fun to mess with, as well as any guitar stories you've got.

Note: I'm all about stuff that can be moved along the fret board, rhythm is where I have fun.

[dr!ft]

Whoot! Writing songs on guitar kicks mucho rear. I've started practicing with a few of my friends, with hopes of starting a band of some sort. Its a blast! But I really need to get an electric guitar of my own. I've been mooching off my friends Peavey and it is very poopie. Been thinking about a Epiphone SG and this beautiful Mesa amp I saw in the store the other day.

Oh, and as for drop-d tuning, I found this site has bunches of drop-d stuff.

:rockon

[Touchdown038]

Drop D is great for making heavy sounding songs on electric guitar. Other than that, it's not that great.

If you wanna go for a unique sound on acoustic, try double drop D. There's practically no songs with it, and I personally think it sounds awesome.

[nametakennow]

Double drop D? I have inklings, but what would that be?

Drop D is great for heavy songs, true. I've been writing a lot of heavy songs lately, so maybe that fuels my fascination. It could also be that the first song I ever learned (and thus my first real taste of fun) was in Drop D, and I thus have an affection for it...

Writings songs is great fun. I've recently discovered that a friend of mine (who just picked up guitar, note that he's been a trumpet player since 6th grade... I played alto sax from 5th-9th) car write great melody, and play it too. I, on the other hand, write good background (I refer to it as harmony, though that term gets skewed a lot) and lyrics, though I'm sure he has some lyrics up his sleave. I love nothing better than dropping a bridge and a couple fingers down and rocking away all over the fret board. So he and I make a good team, we're still trying to organize some point where we can hang out and try to put some stuff together. I just finished recording the lyrics of two songs and the music of one of those in the past couple of hours. I ought to go to bed, but I need to finish mixing... gar... Anyways, be on the lookout for Grey Sheep, maybe I'll share some of the stuff on K-Lite once I get more together and ask for opinions (note that songs are recorded in a small room in my house with nothing but an Ibanez electric and a computer with Goldwave, which I highly recommend, as it allows for pretty large amounts of editing, and it's free for the trial version, which has a command limit, but it just tells you to stop doing commands, which you can restart the program to get rid of or just keep clicking "OK"). I digress... I'll check out that link and this "double drop D"...

[Touchdown038]

Double Drop D = DADGBD.

Another good tuning (although I forgot the name) is DADGAD. Sounds real nice with suspended D chord already built in.

[nametakennow]

I bet it does... hafta try that tomorrow.

It seems my inkling was correct, thanks for the clarification!

[Touchdown038]

No prob man. Have fun.

[captain nismo]

I've played guitar for about 7 or so years now. I play a '78 Fender Stratocaster. There are alot of different tunings out there so you really have to foul around with alot to see what your favourite is. I personally play a bit in drop d, some open d, drop c sometimes, but usually im in regular tuning, transposed down half a step.