5 Awesome Drop D Riffs | Alice in Chains

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  • Опубліковано 22 вер 2022
  • In this week's video, we check out 5 awesome drop D riffs from Alice in Chains!
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  • @bestboy897
    @bestboy897 Рік тому +69

    I've been listening to a lot of aic these days. Dirt is one of the greatest albums in all of music.

    • @njordan2001
      @njordan2001 Рік тому +4

      I’ve been stuck on the self-titled album lately. Soooo good.

    • @seanny_mac
      @seanny_mac Рік тому +1

      @@njordan2001 Agree with this and Dirt. SO GOOD!

    • @13ninjakill
      @13ninjakill Рік тому +2

      Id have to say facelift, dirt, and self titled. All amazing in their own ways. But dirt is the dirtiest album ever made.

    • @Jmjm-wl7pd
      @Jmjm-wl7pd Рік тому

      Was the first cd I learned by them love it spent a lot of days jamming that on my old port cd player

    • @h0tsex0r
      @h0tsex0r Рік тому

      If I recall correctly Dirt has
      Them Bones
      Would?
      Down in a Hole
      Rooster
      I mean every one of those is 10/10

  • @MustObeyTheRules
    @MustObeyTheRules Рік тому +12

    “Died” is the best drop D riff from AIC by far.

  • @metalheadbill
    @metalheadbill Рік тому +41

    Definitely would love a full lesson of We Die Young and any other AIC songs!

  • @MacPac78
    @MacPac78 Рік тому +16

    A massive YES to a We Die Young lesson.

  • @csbaucu7761
    @csbaucu7761 Рік тому +13

    'We Die Young' is my jam. I've been listening to that song for 30 plus years. It never gets old. Best song on that record.

  • @restlessyouthproductions
    @restlessyouthproductions Рік тому +8

    These riffs mean more to me than sweep picking , blazing fast arpeggios ever will. I didn't realize how much Cantrell influenced my own playing until I started re-listening to AIC recently. They were a sound and a band that completely floored me. Jerry's monster tone and dirty blues, Laynes unreal vocals, Mike Starr's huge bass, and Sean Kinney's versatility and might. They were dark, but so vulnerable and human.

  • @dangiampietro6606
    @dangiampietro6606 Рік тому +6

    Of all the post Staley era drop-tuned songs, "A looking in view" I feel is a truly overlooked gem. TONS of killer riffs, and some of the best "tag team" style vocals between Cantrell and Duvall. Definitely worth revisiting if it didn't capture you the first time.

  • @AtifJaleelisvexed
    @AtifJaleelisvexed Рік тому +8

    How could you miss "Last of My Kind" in the post-Staley era songs?! It's my all time favorite!

  • @josephwhite8554
    @josephwhite8554 Рік тому +4

    Definitely more Alice In Chains please! We Die Young is one of the most badass opening songs on any album...that riff and tone and all of it is on fire. Black Gives Way To Blue is definitely an underappreciated album too. Great video!

  • @jeffreycaulfield8220
    @jeffreycaulfield8220 4 місяці тому

    That clip of Adam jones playing we die young riff during sound check is so mint that’s always the first thing I play when I go to D , either that or the bottom riff

  • @ethanmorris36
    @ethanmorris36 Рік тому +2

    I find it quite funny how the 6 riffs I've been practicing a lot lately are all on a video from you Greg!! Rain When I Die is one of the best Alice in Chains song in their entire discography!!

  • @thatguyreiji1045
    @thatguyreiji1045 Рік тому +7

    Would love an Alice in chains song series for sure.

  • @Miguel-cg7rd
    @Miguel-cg7rd Рік тому

    This is the kind of video I was waiting for in your channel. Love AiC and It would be fantastic to have a more extended videos of this amazing songs. Thanks for your work

  • @gregorybeise8860
    @gregorybeise8860 Рік тому +2

    Dude, .”Stoned”riff shows how Cantrell’s time with Dimebag is well set in. Both of those guys were heavy hitters of the simple but bad ass riffs 🤘🏼

  • @thiagojesus3554
    @thiagojesus3554 Рік тому +2

    Them bones and we die young full tutorial, please.
    Greetings from Brazil!!

  • @Mike93527
    @Mike93527 Рік тому

    Awesome man. 5 badass classics. Love to see a full song tutorial

  • @jonathanbrown943
    @jonathanbrown943 Рік тому +1

    Hell yes on full AiC tutorials! 👌

  • @MrStrawberryhurrican
    @MrStrawberryhurrican Рік тому +2

    Man I love your flow and energy. Makes learning fun. Thank you for the content

  • @rockstarterguitar
    @rockstarterguitar 4 місяці тому

    Your tone just made me wee myself. Awesome!

  • @EDGARDOUX1701
    @EDGARDOUX1701 Рік тому +1

    Great vid!! and a big YES for We Die Young!!!

  • @Therankinlife
    @Therankinlife Рік тому

    YESS!! Thank you for another Aic video!

  • @poli.f.0nia
    @poli.f.0nia Рік тому

    Great video man! Love the casual, down to earth tone, like you're talking to friends about music, which is exactly what you're doing! But most tutorial content on YT doesn't feel like that. Just one comment, that chord on "Them Bones" is not a dominant chord, it's just a Dm7, the notes added to the power chord are just C (the 7th) and F (the third) the third at the top sure does make it sound like something else since it's so bluesy haha.

  • @andrewkelley3434
    @andrewkelley3434 Рік тому

    Another honorable mention for Drop C#/Db would be Red Planet off of Rainier Fog. Killer track but you can't go wrong with the tracks you chose. Fun video, I'm going to go practice now 🤘🎸

  • @ricktheexplorer
    @ricktheexplorer Рік тому +1

    It's hard to contemplate the eternal wisdom Cantrell showed in making this music, since he was in his 20's. Amazing.

  • @nickdub0819
    @nickdub0819 Рік тому +1

    Such a great intro song to a great album! Yes, more We Die Young!

  • @vendeta9393
    @vendeta9393 Рік тому

    Good video and your tone is sick with that drop tuning, very close to Cantrell. And yes, wouldn't mind We Die Young lesson!

  • @quebecomega
    @quebecomega Рік тому

    Thank You so much! Best teacher ever!

  • @paulm6341
    @paulm6341 Рік тому +1

    Great to hear some killer AIC riffs. Would love to have a lesson for the whole song please sir !

  • @marioflash-newjerseyshorer3368

    Absolutely love ur Drop D tutorials on Tools Adam Jones and AIC’s Jerry Cantrell. It improved my guitar playing and riff writing 10,000 %!!!
    Keep ‘em coming with full AIC songs!

    • @marioflash-newjerseyshorer3368
      @marioflash-newjerseyshorer3368 Рік тому

      @text_AxeofCreation Working on my new “Drop D song” inspired by your lessons entitled “Gallop of the Four Horsemen “, when done I’ll LUK and post on my UA-cam channel.
      The tool lessons are so well thought out and presented in such a way that it make learning easy and fun! Keep it up!!!!!!!

  • @antonstefanov2146
    @antonstefanov2146 Рік тому +1

    Adding chromatic steps inside a minor pentatonic scale can spice it up for solos too

  • @LaurenOliviArt
    @LaurenOliviArt 5 місяців тому

    I like the way you explain it!

  • @redhousej
    @redhousej Рік тому +2

    Yes, We Die Young! Let's go!
    Great video - thank you!

  • @AleandFire
    @AleandFire Рік тому

    This is a goldmine of information

  • @GabrielRamirez-fk3ww
    @GabrielRamirez-fk3ww Рік тому +2

    My man.... you forgot the best drop D riff in their Layne era catalog. Sunshine , off of facelift.

  • @Juliankb39
    @Juliankb39 Рік тому +1

    Gotta echo the sentiment that an Alice in Chains series would be awesome.

  • @RedSparrow149
    @RedSparrow149 Рік тому

    A massive yes to that "We Die Young" lesson

  • @cheetorb
    @cheetorb Рік тому

    Thank you sir!

  • @Metalfreak327
    @Metalfreak327 Рік тому

    Just saw them at the Cynthia Woods Pavilion Woodlands Texas. Kick ass!

  • @yoyoz333
    @yoyoz333 Рік тому

    man your tone sounds nice. what amp and settings are you using?

  • @nick3718
    @nick3718 Рік тому

    insane tone btw

  • @rickbrunet2559
    @rickbrunet2559 Рік тому

    Damn that river is an awesome song!!!

  • @cembellsteve
    @cembellsteve Рік тому +1

    ANYTHING WITH AIC IS MUST. SLUDGE FACTORY, ALSO GOOD DROP D
    THANKS FOR THIS

  • @xXpapercutsXx
    @xXpapercutsXx Рік тому +1

    Sup duder! Great episode! Try the we die young riff going up to the 6th fret from the opening 2, that sounds more right to me. Cheers!

    • @mr.nervedamage7463
      @mr.nervedamage7463 Рік тому

      I was going to say the same thing. He was playing it one fret too low, which may have been a tab issue. I learn everything by ear and I could hear that it was a half step off haha.

  • @timothydreadon5661
    @timothydreadon5661 Рік тому

    Definitely want to see the AIC tutorial

  • @troyperkins9593
    @troyperkins9593 9 місяців тому

    Personally, I’d dig tutorials on all of these songs!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

  • @giacomogalli2448
    @giacomogalli2448 2 місяці тому

    Awesome video, by the way aren't these all in Drop C#?

  • @mikehabursky6775
    @mikehabursky6775 Рік тому +1

    Full lesson of all 5 please

  • @austinmidwest7062
    @austinmidwest7062 Рік тому

    of course, would love some aic stuff

  • @papafauzz
    @papafauzz Рік тому

    awww i was hoping u were gonna play the “put you down” riff

  • @geroffmilan3328
    @geroffmilan3328 Рік тому

    Rain When I Die is what I'd like to see.
    But also Sickman from Dirt has some amazing riffs to play & learn.

  • @Ledzepisbest1
    @Ledzepisbest1 Рік тому

    As a 6th additional one, Died by AiC is absolutely nutty in D.

  • @jteixeira8725
    @jteixeira8725 Рік тому +1

    Do the entire we die young!!!!! Please 😁

  • @scottbrady2301
    @scottbrady2301 Рік тому

    Can you do a tone video for JC like your adam Jones one.

  • @coreyh7641
    @coreyh7641 Рік тому

    We die young is sick, but damn that river verse riff always was difficult for me...
    It's all sick , do em all

  • @notsop1
    @notsop1 Рік тому

    Geez, that guitar tone is monstrous. What do you use to get it?

    • @axeofcreation
      @axeofcreation  Рік тому

      Quad Cortex from NeuralDSP.

    • @notsop1
      @notsop1 Рік тому

      @@axeofcreation appreciate it.

  • @BigBoss1982
    @BigBoss1982 Рік тому

    We die young my favorite grunge riff ever.

  • @thomasgilliam3513
    @thomasgilliam3513 Рік тому

    Yes.

  • @markhendrixson7670
    @markhendrixson7670 Рік тому

    Yes, we die young lesson.👍🤟🤘

  • @lejnbolejn
    @lejnbolejn Рік тому

    The river is DAMMED 😂

  • @Vlone684
    @Vlone684 Рік тому

    I remember when I was 4 my mom played Alice In Chains Facelift album Layne Staley was her celebrity crush lol

  • @bdumler42
    @bdumler42 Рік тому

    Yes please

  • @natepolidoro4565
    @natepolidoro4565 Рік тому

    8:11 Layne Stanley

  • @pauldodson66
    @pauldodson66 Рік тому

    So the low E string is actually tuned down a whole step and a half total?

  • @CoolGuyWithShoesOn
    @CoolGuyWithShoesOn Рік тому

    Nice nice nice!!!

  • @jrtilley
    @jrtilley Рік тому

    Dude. Can you please teach us the song Floods by Pantera? I like the way you teach and I need some instruction!

  • @kingofkingsVAR
    @kingofkingsVAR Рік тому

    Yessss!!! 🤘❤🤘🎸

  • @scotticidal
    @scotticidal Рік тому

    Damn that river is drop C

  • @gabrielonification
    @gabrielonification 2 місяці тому

    What you used to reach that tone? it's MASSIVE

  • @JonathanSumner1
    @JonathanSumner1 Рік тому +1

    YES! We die young! PLEASE!!!!!

  • @markhendrixson7670
    @markhendrixson7670 Рік тому

    PS: lessons for all!

  • @TheRealCAPerry
    @TheRealCAPerry Рік тому +2

    Good to see at least one track from the albums released after Layne passed being covered, but there needs to be far more of it. The riffs from ‘Black Gives Way to Blue’, ‘The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here’, and ‘Rainier Fog’ are just as good as the earlier work, but don’t get the love - odd, given the same guy wrote them. Bring ‘em on, let’s see what can be done with them.

    • @axeofcreation
      @axeofcreation  Рік тому +2

      I agree, a part two is definitely in order.

    • @allboutthemojo
      @allboutthemojo Рік тому

      @@axeofcreation loved this video. Thank you. So awesome that you picked easy to play but still the coolest Cantrell riffs and there's still so many more in AIC's music.
      A Toolesque series of full AIC songs would be incredible

  • @johniadanza4510
    @johniadanza4510 Рік тому +1

    Yes pls any facelift riffs like this is shred(!!!!¡¡!) I know all the dirt dropped D or Dnb or whatever

  • @ryanreed380
    @ryanreed380 Рік тому +1

    I see AIC I click

  • @lawndart188s
    @lawndart188s Рік тому

    How about doing the whole album

  • @jcalzada74
    @jcalzada74 Рік тому

    What tune is.?

  • @sbr38
    @sbr38 Рік тому

    Please please we die young full song, thanks

  • @napukapu
    @napukapu Рік тому

    00:52 video begins

  • @bdumler42
    @bdumler42 Рік тому

    Rain when I die

  • @skullyferguson1331
    @skullyferguson1331 Рік тому

    Yes all of we die young

  • @curtpozzi5527
    @curtpozzi5527 Рік тому

    Can we get a lesson on "Can't Put You Down"?

  • @tylerbrittan593
    @tylerbrittan593 Рік тому

    Rad, dude! The We Die Young riff is wrong though. It goes from the 2nd fret to the 6th with the little bend. Not the 5th.

  • @matthewkenney6579
    @matthewkenney6579 Рік тому

    That's C# tuning

  • @itsmechris14
    @itsmechris14 Рік тому

    pretty sloppy brah. damn that river got no justice.

  • @proletariatbourgeoisie9929
    @proletariatbourgeoisie9929 Рік тому +1

    There's LOTS of nasty post-Layne Drop D riffs tbh. The whole Black Gives Way to Blue and The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here albums are nasty riff factories

  • @thenashvillemasterclass5639

    You can play it with your fingers?🤣🤣🤣

  • @NoCoupForYou1776
    @NoCoupForYou1776 Рік тому

    Title: Drop D riffs.
    Okay first you wanna tune to drop C#...

  • @nick3718
    @nick3718 Рік тому

    what? bro like 60% of aic’s catalogue is in drop c#

  • @CohnmanTheBudbarian
    @CohnmanTheBudbarian Рік тому

    A like comment because I don't wanna break the 666 likes 😁👍

  • @pearljaime2
    @pearljaime2 Рік тому

    Ok. So it's drop Db, not drop D

  • @cecilsproject6796
    @cecilsproject6796 Рік тому

    6th chord is not a D wtf? Ok half step down its all dropdflat?

  • @lukewarmwater5320
    @lukewarmwater5320 Рік тому

    I don't know what you're running everything through but that tone is like a fuckin' crunch wrap bacon burrito to my ears!

  • @johniadanza4510
    @johniadanza4510 Рік тому +1

    Yes them bones is a shredfest 🔈🟪⬛️⚪️🔴🔴🔴♨️💢♨️⚠️‼️‼️❗️❗️❗️💗💓❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥💔💙💙🖤🖤❣️🤍yes it is worth knowing its also easy!!! That mext riff is the delight the “I feel so alone” one ofc i mean

  • @sheriewart8100
    @sheriewart8100 Рік тому

    Yes please