10 Iconic Drop C Guitar Riffs (with Tabs)

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  • @vinnieheinz6361
    @vinnieheinz6361 2 роки тому +29

    In love with the Blew riff

  • @andrewpappas9311
    @andrewpappas9311 2 роки тому +218

    I still credit System of a Down and Daron Malakian for inspiring me to write my own riffs in Drop C and Drop C#, the man is a freaking riff machine. And also speaking of riff machine, RIP Alexi, still gone from us way too early

    • @tylerdurden6901
      @tylerdurden6901 2 роки тому +3

      I'm guessing you never heard of black sabbath

    • @andrewpappas9311
      @andrewpappas9311 2 роки тому +13

      @@tylerdurden6901 Obviously I have and I know Tony does a lot of playing C#, I’m just saying Daron was the first guitarist I heard use those tunings

    • @Rob_Cary
      @Rob_Cary Рік тому +1

      SOAD and Alexi are worlds apart haha

    • @KyleGD
      @KyleGD 8 місяців тому

      R.I.P Alexi. God bless. 🙏✝️

  • @zackvanhalen
    @zackvanhalen 2 роки тому +51

    I haven't heard that Three Days Grace one since I was in high school back in 2006 when it came out. I was instantly transported back in time.

    • @J14777
      @J14777 2 роки тому +4

      Yeah man, a classic 2000’s hard rock song, still one of my personal favourites

    • @rob.sanfelipe3891
      @rob.sanfelipe3891 6 місяців тому +1

      You should look up the tren twins

    • @virginia4032
      @virginia4032 4 місяці тому

      Did you live under a rock?

  • @ricekrispietreats8973
    @ricekrispietreats8973 2 роки тому +119

    My favorites in drop c
    Frantic - Metallica (don't @ me I unironically love this album)
    L' enfaunt savage - gojira
    Deutschland - rammstein
    Radio - rammstein
    Animal I have become - three days grace
    The chant - gojira
    Bodies - drowning pool
    Something in the way - nirvana

    • @Dmanichawk
      @Dmanichawk 2 роки тому +18

      I also love St.Anger, respect Brother 🤘

    • @dekideron5199
      @dekideron5199 2 роки тому +4

      Isnt deutschland in drop d

    • @alistarperooo5372
      @alistarperooo5372 2 роки тому +5

      For me rammsteins best c drop is mann gegen mann

    • @ricekrispietreats8973
      @ricekrispietreats8973 2 роки тому

      @@dekideron5199 nah bro is drop c, made me second guess myself though

    • @JL073
      @JL073 2 роки тому +5

      Frantic is such an awesome song

  • @barboza8481
    @barboza8481 Рік тому +14

    Was so lazy I’d rather learn a whole new song instead of tuning back

  • @mikomusic1
    @mikomusic1 2 роки тому +15

    Great work! This collection was basically my middle school practice routine, 2000s was a great time to learn guitar as a teen into metal!

  • @damoshombres
    @damoshombres 2 роки тому +14

    This guy, keeping me on the toilet, avoiding my family, re living my youth...nice one mate 👌

  • @rwalker0130
    @rwalker0130 2 роки тому +22

    Thanks for including some Children of Bodom, RIP Alexi

  • @misty_rainstorm
    @misty_rainstorm 2 роки тому +13

    yessss disturbed, skillet and three days grace!!! love this

  • @danieldavidson5447
    @danieldavidson5447 2 роки тому +40

    My favorite bands that use drop C has got to be Born of Osiris and Gojira! Such an awesome tuning.

  • @noahdizzle5814
    @noahdizzle5814 2 роки тому +28

    This video gave me a ton of new stuff to work on! I started in Drop C because of Breaking Benjamin - So Cold

    • @simpledesign37
      @simpledesign37 2 роки тому +7

      I was really hoping to see at least one Breaking Benjamin song in this video.

    • @mikehurt3290
      @mikehurt3290 2 роки тому

      Isn't a lot of Breaking Benjamin songs in drop A or something like that, it's a weird turning most people would never have a guess they played

    • @simpledesign37
      @simpledesign37 2 роки тому +3

      I think a good majority of their material after We Are Not Alone is in a very low tuning. We Are Not Alone was pretty much all drop C, I believe.

    • @XxITGScooby33xX
      @XxITGScooby33xX 2 роки тому +4

      Most is in drop A#. Well, they call it Bb cuz it stands for Breaking Benjamin lol.
      Diary of Jane album started doing drop A#. So Cold album started doing drop C. The first album was drop C#.
      Lol you learn a lot when you play guitar

    • @ajanator5263
      @ajanator5263 Рік тому +1

      @@simpledesign37 BB mostly play in drop Bb (heh) but they have a few drop c songs

  • @greyaye8565
    @greyaye8565 Рік тому +4

    Man, that Monster riff just sounds so awesome.

  • @SunRavenMusic
    @SunRavenMusic Рік тому +1

    Great tone on that SG!

  • @Nverinder716
    @Nverinder716 2 роки тому +21

    Proof positive that the one word that best describes my formative teen years is CGCFAD

  • @jadeeeeen_
    @jadeeeeen_ 2 роки тому +3

    I’m so glad you put in blew. I love that song

  • @kanjosidr
    @kanjosidr 2 роки тому +4

    I'm impressed by how clean your alternate picking is at 2:23. I always played it with downstrokes

  • @firdauszainudin7118
    @firdauszainudin7118 Рік тому +2

    What a great playlist to end with beautiful My Curse.

  • @dandigiovanni6998
    @dandigiovanni6998 2 роки тому +56

    Kinda surprised to see "Davidian" by Machine Head didn't make this list, one of the most powerful, hard-hitting drop-C tuned songs and most iconic opening tracks in 90's metal.

    • @dedandflooded
      @dedandflooded 2 роки тому +9

      davidian is drop b

    • @gatt0203
      @gatt0203 2 роки тому +8

      @@dedandflooded technically it's 40 cents between drop c and drop b so people argue over it

    • @Faeron1984
      @Faeron1984 2 роки тому +3

      Not drop C you muppet

    • @dandigiovanni6998
      @dandigiovanni6998 2 роки тому +2

      @@Faeron1984 I've played it in drop C forever and many others have, and it sounded pretty dead on.

  • @ognjenmilenkovic3050
    @ognjenmilenkovic3050 2 роки тому +93

    Thank god somebody included a Three Days Grace riff, they wrote some rather awesome Drop C stuff.
    Same with BFMV. Suffocating is the best song on that album, along with The Poison

    • @ricardomilos5953
      @ricardomilos5953 2 роки тому +2

      3DG and BFMV being two def underrated groups ngl

  • @ayudhdasroy7090
    @ayudhdasroy7090 2 роки тому +10

    Honestly there's so many iconic Drop C songs, it's difficult to just choose 10 of them

  • @MrBlavk666
    @MrBlavk666 2 роки тому +2

    The best video of Drop C Songs 👀❤️ nailed it man

  • @quenguin2178
    @quenguin2178 2 роки тому +13

    TBH what swicthed me to Drop C tuning was Bullet for my Valentine when I was about 18. I had not long started experimenting with Drop D then Bullet just hit me like a truck. Crushing rhythms, sweeping solo's and it just went together so well. I didn't discover Bodom until I was well into my 20's in sort of 2008-2010 so I am quite a late comer to the Smashing metal core party, and yes Bodom mainly played in Drop C

  • @qmccarr89
    @qmccarr89 2 роки тому +2

    Very happy to see Bodom on here. RIP Alexi

  • @yobanyhernandez125
    @yobanyhernandez125 2 роки тому +3

    Started with oblivion , love it

  • @Stegibbon
    @Stegibbon 2 роки тому +8

    For me it's gotta be the main riff from Meddler by August burns red. Fucking incredible feeling when you nail that song.

  • @nicobo730
    @nicobo730 2 роки тому +1

    One of my all time favorite tunings!!

  • @EclipseNine
    @EclipseNine Рік тому +1

    Dude, how you gonna include My Curse then cut the video short right before that epic, beefy, open C riff. That riff is so much fun to play and shows off everything heavy and awesome about drop C

  • @undeadassassin0438
    @undeadassassin0438 2 роки тому +4

    1.Mastodon-Oblivion (2009)
    2.Disturbed-Stricken (2005)
    3.System of a Down-Chop Suey!(2001)
    4.Three Days Grace-Animal i Have Become
    5. Children of Bodom-Are you Dead yet
    6. Bullet for My Valentine-Suffocating Under Words Of Sorrow
    7.Nirvana-Blew
    8.Skillet-Monster
    9.Deftones-Change
    10.Killswitch Engage-My Curse

  • @adanmentado3311
    @adanmentado3311 2 роки тому +2

    Now make a video on 10 iconic clean riffs in this drop 🙌🏽

  • @Moss_and_Such
    @Moss_and_Such 2 роки тому +7

    It’s strange the intro riff to My Curse is featured but not the bone crushing verse riff. One my my personal favorites. Love the whole song though.

  • @jolynegarcia9761
    @jolynegarcia9761 2 роки тому +18

    Extra riff: i don't wanna stop by ozzy osbourne

  • @weegee_
    @weegee_ 2 роки тому +1

    Nostalgia overload!

  • @XxITGScooby33xX
    @XxITGScooby33xX 2 роки тому +1

    Love this video bro! I had to subscribe after watching this. I play all of those songs too lol. Keep making great videos 🤘

  • @dannyimreallybadatgames
    @dannyimreallybadatgames 2 роки тому +1

    W for putting Monster by Skillet

  • @lepenseur8191
    @lepenseur8191 2 роки тому

    Nice selection!

  • @Matt28NJ
    @Matt28NJ Рік тому

    Great video!

  • @dontstop2517
    @dontstop2517 2 роки тому +2

    thanks for the vid

  • @JonathanSH
    @JonathanSH 2 роки тому +1

    I could never make these videos I’d be so biased. My top 3 would be angels don’t kill, are you dead yet, and living dead beat lmao

  • @GodderdyTabs
    @GodderdyTabs 2 роки тому

    Really Nice riffs!

  • @Alex_Nicolas1
    @Alex_Nicolas1 2 роки тому

    some great ones in here

  • @kyleheaser351boombaby
    @kyleheaser351boombaby Рік тому

    So good!!

  • @Sonicstillpoint83
    @Sonicstillpoint83 2 роки тому

    Great list! Thanks for posting. 🤘

  • @lolimac
    @lolimac Рік тому +1

    Nostalgia Songs 1:37 3:16 😢

  • @VeritabIlIti
    @VeritabIlIti 2 роки тому +1

    Waited the whole video to make sure my curse was there. Was not disappointed

  • @Keiko_Kitsune
    @Keiko_Kitsune 2 роки тому +8

    Love your list. Would also like to add "Bad Horsie" By Steve Vai.

    • @andrewpappas9311
      @andrewpappas9311 2 роки тому +1

      Oh yeah, that’s probably my favourite Vai song

  • @B.Sleazy
    @B.Sleazy Рік тому +3

    Freya by The Sword is also a very iconic one, would of fit right there next to Oblivion.

  • @bassdrummer9849
    @bassdrummer9849 2 роки тому +10

    Great!!!
    Some of my favorites drop c are Song for the dead by QOTSA and The Everlasting Gaze by Smashing Pumpkins

  • @AlanMoreiraMusic
    @AlanMoreiraMusic Рік тому

    Wow! I didn't expect for Nirvana!

  • @juliansilva528
    @juliansilva528 2 роки тому

    Recommended, also in Drop C:
    Prong: Cleansing and Rude awakening. The most ridiculous riffs from the 90s.
    Byzantine: To release is to resolve. Prog and heavy.
    Dissection: Reinkaos, the finest, most catchy, beautiful Black N Roll ever made.

  • @14reasons58
    @14reasons58 Місяць тому

    killswitch engage my curse is a fucking master piece of beauty and divinity

  • @jackfc5239
    @jackfc5239 2 роки тому +1

    I had favourite tons of drop c song and my favourite drop c song is redefined by as i lay dying.

  • @tomflynn2912
    @tomflynn2912 2 роки тому

    Hi, what is that thing you cover the guitar nut with?

  • @williammorillo657
    @williammorillo657 Рік тому +1

    There are no Epica or Nightwish songs played in drop c or drop c# ?

  • @rudypsk8
    @rudypsk8 Рік тому +1

    Que buenos riffs 🤙🏽⚡

  • @JamesHetfield-hz9ed
    @JamesHetfield-hz9ed 2 роки тому +1

    Are you trying to tell me my whole childhood was in drop C

  • @walterwish5162
    @walterwish5162 Рік тому

    bro just casually has my dream guitar 😭🙏

  • @primitiveslow-mo8714
    @primitiveslow-mo8714 2 місяці тому

    i wish you people would tell us what pedal or which amp setting you used to get the sound

  • @lukeslayer
    @lukeslayer 2 роки тому +1

    C'mon let's be honest during the disturbed sticken riff who went "Ah Ah Ah Ohhhh!

  • @stevenmorrison3014
    @stevenmorrison3014 8 місяців тому

    Stricken is one of the coolest riffs ever.

  • @JennaTheFox277
    @JennaTheFox277 Місяць тому

    I tuned my starter stratt to drop C and it is HEAVY

  • @anonymouslyunknown4811
    @anonymouslyunknown4811 2 роки тому +2

    The first song I learned on guitar was So Cold By Breaking Benjamin I played that every day til it became easy for me

  • @SeedOilFitnessOfficial
    @SeedOilFitnessOfficial 2 роки тому +7

    Now do D Standard aka my favorite tuning

    • @thedancingguy828
      @thedancingguy828 2 роки тому +2

      Sad But True, Walk, Killing In the Name

    • @DaveThomson
      @DaveThomson 2 роки тому

      @@thedancingguy828 walk e and kitno is drop d

    • @thedancingguy828
      @thedancingguy828 2 роки тому

      @@DaveThomson nope

    • @DaveThomson
      @DaveThomson 2 роки тому +1

      @@thedancingguy828Most people play Walk in D standard, but its still off as Dime didn't use normal hertz which is why it doesn't sound right in D at all.
      Instead of A=440 it was like "tuned down 60 cents, or 425 H"
      For KITNO I am correct, I watch like 5 videos of Tom playing all in Drop D.

    • @rossmusic25
      @rossmusic25 2 роки тому +1

      @@thedancingguy828 Yeah no killing in the name is drop D my man

  • @jasontrill8227
    @jasontrill8227 2 роки тому

    Respect from Russia!!!

  • @longwong1016
    @longwong1016 2 роки тому

    Holy Diver is another one.

  • @MonsterJuiced
    @MonsterJuiced 2 роки тому

    very very cool

  • @emerickcobb4875
    @emerickcobb4875 2 роки тому

    what does the little band at the top of the guitar do

  • @mvyper
    @mvyper 2 роки тому +4

    Why gauge of strings are you using? Does the SG hold the tuning well, being a 24.75 scale?

    • @KevinBalke
      @KevinBalke  2 роки тому +5

      I got 12 - 52 strings on there and I don't have any tuning issues with the SG. Holds tuning for a long time.

    • @flucazade
      @flucazade 2 роки тому +1

      @@KevinBalke but Gibson apparently don't do tuning stability :kappa

    • @RealROCKnROLLA
      @RealROCKnROLLA 2 роки тому

      @@flucazade lube the nut with graphite and wound the strings upwards - any Gibson will hold tune perfectly. I can spend an evening practicing songs with lots of bends on G string and it'll never get out of tune

  • @Sonicfan5150
    @Sonicfan5150 2 роки тому

    Wow, did not expect Skillet, nice!

  • @Durkhead
    @Durkhead 2 роки тому +6

    I think drop c sounds better than 7 strings

  • @Hurrukk
    @Hurrukk 2 роки тому +1

    awesome

  • @e-train765
    @e-train765 2 роки тому +4

    Holy shit I nevee knew Nirvana dropped down to Drop C 🤯

    • @maxlm07
      @maxlm07 2 роки тому

      Heart shaped box is drop c

    • @KevinBalke
      @KevinBalke  2 роки тому

      All Apologies is also in Drop C#. I didn't realize it either before transcribing it myself. ua-cam.com/video/Y3ohy3yd5ko/v-deo.html

    • @misterscorbunny5524
      @misterscorbunny5524 2 роки тому

      @@maxlm07 *c sharp

    • @nickelasso
      @nickelasso 2 роки тому +1

      Nirvana loved to tune everything down a half step, so some songs "accidentally" ended up in drop C# but are considered drop D. I'm pretty sure with Blew, the band didn't realize they were tuned down an entire step before recording, so the song ended up in true drop C. Precise tuning wasn't really important to them, obviously.

  • @Rolanditou
    @Rolanditou 5 місяців тому

    System of a down and Disturbed made it simple and energetic, Deftones just beautiful and legendary, killwitch engage divine

  • @anyamarie42
    @anyamarie42 5 місяців тому

    could you do the riff for Sugarloaf - Don't Call Us, We'll Call You

  • @CitizenFortress
    @CitizenFortress 2 роки тому

    I had no idea all of these songs were so easy 😳

  • @mattlawson714
    @mattlawson714 Рік тому

    Such tone. I have a Bogner Shiva and it’s not meant for this but i think with my klon klone and tubescreamer pushing the dirty channel… maybe. Just maybe. This sounds incredible. If you could replicate Billy’s guitar tone on “Judith” I could die.

  • @moshlyfe
    @moshlyfe 7 місяців тому

    Blew is such a good fucking riff

  • @nealbrent2193
    @nealbrent2193 2 роки тому

    Lucky me they all seem like riffs I can learn at my level

  • @pschroeter1
    @pschroeter1 2 роки тому

    Hey, its Dethklok's Greatest Hits!

  • @SofaKing880
    @SofaKing880 Рік тому

    He literally played every Oblivion riff except the actually iconic one

  • @BeardedBeerMan
    @BeardedBeerMan Рік тому

    Anything with Nirvana in it deserves a thumbs up

  • @jerishj658
    @jerishj658 Рік тому

    0:50

  • @adamashelby7033
    @adamashelby7033 2 роки тому

    Isolation by alter bridge is a pretty underrated drop c riff. It kinda slams as well

    • @ericl7842
      @ericl7842 2 роки тому

      Alter Bridge is hugely underrated in all aspects. Incredible band! Cheers man!

  • @metalwizard5502
    @metalwizard5502 2 роки тому

    Hu yea man thanks

  • @streicherPRIV
    @streicherPRIV Рік тому

    In dying days - as blood runs black

  • @stefanoargenys
    @stefanoargenys Рік тому +1

    Dalai lama by Rammstein is SO damn heavy and good.

  • @f00ghters
    @f00ghters 7 місяців тому

    metallica st. anger?

  • @wolffyfox4087
    @wolffyfox4087 Рік тому

    Feel Invincible by skillet is really good

  • @idanshahar
    @idanshahar Рік тому +2

    like for CHANGE

  • @andrewplunkett9494
    @andrewplunkett9494 2 роки тому +1

    everyone goes on about kse my curse... but no one acknowledges its a lostprophets song called for sure

  • @adamguthrie7063
    @adamguthrie7063 2 роки тому +1

    I didn’t know Blew was in drop C

  • @NLore-pn3iy
    @NLore-pn3iy 2 роки тому

    shouldn't chop suey be in drop C sharp?

  • @judgeshred66
    @judgeshred66 2 роки тому

    Thank god you got killswitch in there at the end.

  • @frostshock13
    @frostshock13 2 роки тому

    How about a drop B version?

  • @adnap
    @adnap 7 місяців тому

    11/10

  • @jasonchilton5023
    @jasonchilton5023 2 роки тому +1

    Killer list, though an underrated Drop C song you should check out is Megitsune by Babymetal.

  • @leventebardossy5962
    @leventebardossy5962 2 роки тому +1

    It's questionable why someone would choose Are You Dead Yet when COB also has Sixpounder's main theme, or the verse riff of Banned From Heaven. But that's just an opinion.

    • @toddwilliams8128
      @toddwilliams8128 2 роки тому +2

      In Your Face gets my vote, but pretty good choices

    • @leventebardossy5962
      @leventebardossy5962 2 роки тому

      @@toddwilliams8128 I chose them mainly because they are the ones I feel use drop tuning at its maximum effectiveness.

  • @SWEAVER
    @SWEAVER 2 роки тому

    I honestly had no idea Blew was in Dropped C lol

  • @Freddyrick
    @Freddyrick 2 роки тому

    hell yeah killswitch engage

  • @Rainaerys
    @Rainaerys 2 роки тому

    Where is So Cold by Breaking Benjamin? Great list other than that though.

  • @danilstepanchenko9296
    @danilstepanchenko9296 2 роки тому +8

    Where is Rammstein?