Drop B tuning
Drop B tuning is a guitar tuning for a six-string guitar where the strings are tuned to B-F#-B-E-G#-C# (or B-G♭-B-E-A♭-D♭). This is a "drop 1" tuning in the key of C# (i.e. tune the whole guitar down a minor third from standard tuning, then the 6th string is lowered an additional whole step down). As a result, it uses the same fingering as all other "drop" tunings.
Bands that have used Drop B
- Abigail Williams
- Acid Drinkers
- A Day to Remember
- Affiance
- All Shall Perish
- Alter Bridge
- Amon Amarth
- A Perfect Circle
- Architects
- Art of Dying[1]
- As Blood Runs Black on "Resist"
- Asking Alexandria
- Attack Attack!
- Attila
- August Burns Red (on their album "Rescue & Restore")
- Behemoth
- Baroness
- Betraying the Martyrs
- Black Light Burns
- Black Stone Cherry[2]
- Bleed From Within
- Bleeding Through
- Blinded colony
- Bring Me The Horizon (on all of their material prior to Suicide Season)
- Bury Tomorrow
- Carpathian
- The Chariot
- Chevelle
- Children of Bodom (on I Worship Chaos)
- Code Orange
- Coheed and Cambria
- Conquer Divide
- Crossfaith
- Crown The Empire (on The Fallout)
- Creed (on 1/3 of Full Circle)
- Cult of Luna
- De La Tierra
- Celtic Frost (on their final album Monotheist)
- Damageplan (on "Wake Up", "Pride", "Explode", "Save Me", "Crawl", and "Blunt Force Trauma" from New Found Power)
- Dark Tranquillity (on much of their material starting from Fiction)
- Dead to Fall
- Demon Hunter
- DevilDriver (on their self-titled and The Fury of Our Maker's Hand albums)[3]
- The Devil Wears Prada (It is the primary tuning on Zombie EP and Dead Throne. It is also used on With Roots Above and Branches Below and 8:18)
- Disturbed (on most tracks on Immortalized)
- Dope
- Down[4][5]
- Dream on Dreamer on their album Heartbound
- Elitist
- Eyes Set to Kill (on their album Masks)
- Famous Last Words
- For All Those Sleeping (on their album Outspoken)
- For Today (on their Prevailer EP)
- From Ashes to New
- Funeral
- The Gazette
- The Ghost Inside on their album Fury and the Fallen Ones
- Greeley Estates on their album No Rain, No Rainbow
- Halestorm (on the songs "Freak Like Me", "I Get Off", and "I Like it Heavy", though only Lzzy Hale uses drop B on the latter two)
- Hamlet (on most songs on Syberia, and the songs "Arruinando Nuestra Vida", "En Mi Nombre" and "Bajo Su Cuerpo" of the album Pura Vida)
- Heart in Hand
- I Killed the Prom Queen (on their album Music for the Recently Deceased)
- Intronaut
- In Extremo (songs "Rasend Herz", "Horizont", "Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein")
- I See Stars
- Isis
- Islander
- It Prevails
- Iwrestledabearonce
- Karnivool (highest 3 strings are all tuned to E Standard tuning)
- King's X on their album Dogman (specifically, "Shoes", "Black the Sky" and "Don't Care")
- Lamb of God (on the song "Straight For The Sun")
- Limp Bizkit
- Linkin Park (on "Don't Stay" and "Nobody's Listening" from Meteora)
- Lorna Shore
- Machine Head (tuned 40 cents sharp) [6]
- Memphis May Fire
- Motionless In White
- Mudvayne (on their album L.D. 50)
- Mark Tremonti (on "Leave It Alone", "Giving Up", "Proof", "Decay", "All That I Got" and "Gone" from the All I Was sessions)][7]
- Mike Shinoda (On "Selector" from MTV VMA Score 2005 )
- Nickelback (on the song "Side of a Bullet")
- Nightwish (on the song "the Islander")
- Oceana
- Of Mice and Men
- Origin
- Palisades
- Papa Roach (on the songs "Warriors" and "Falling Apart")
- Parkway Drive
- Pathology (on the song "A Bleak Future")
- Pierce The Veil
- Projected[8]
- Raunchy
- Resist the Thought
- Rob Zombie
- Seether (On the songs "Given" and "Tonight")
- Sevendust (primary tuning, although several variations of it are also used)[9][10]
- Skillet (On select songs from their album Comatose, as well as several songs transposed to Drop B for live concerts)
- Soilwork
- Slayer (On select songs from God Hates Us All, Christ Illusion, "Americon" from World Painted Blood, and half of the songs of Repentless)
- Slipknot[11]
- Soul Mayhem
- Soundgarden (uses variated version from standard tuning: B A D G B E in "Rusty Cage", "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" and "Holy Water")
- Stone Sour[12]
- Sienna Skies
- Tears to Embers
- The Amity Affliction
- The Kills - "Future Starts Slow"
- Theory of a Deadman
- This or the Apocalypse
- Thousand Foot Krutch
- Three Days Grace (on the song "Drown" from their self-titled debut album)
- Tool (uses variated versions from standard tuning: B A D G B E in "Prison Sex", and B E D G B E in "Parabola")
- Triptykon
- UFOMAMMUT
- Vanna
- Veil of Maya
- We Came as Romans
- Wretched
- Young Guns
References
- ↑ "Greg Bradley of Art of Dying – Guitar Rig and Gear Setup – 2011". GuitarGeek. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ↑ "Rig Rundown - Black Stone Cherry's Chris Robertson". All Axess. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ↑ "Jeff Kendrick & Mike Spreitzer Talk About Tuning". Fret 12. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- ↑ "Pepper Keenan of Down – Guitar Rig and Gear Setup – 2008". GuitarGeek. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ↑ "Kirk Windstein of Down – Guitar Rig and Gear Setup – 2007". GuitarGeek. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ↑ "Phil Demmel of Machinehead – Guitar Rig and Gear Setup – 2007". GuitarGeek. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ↑ "Guitar tunings from Shiprocked setlist". Fret 12. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
- ↑ Connolly, John. "HELLo guitars and tuning explanation". John Connolly. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- ↑ "Clint Lowery & John Connolly Talk About Tuning". Fret 12. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- ↑ "Clint Lowery & John Connolly Talk About Alternate Tuning". Fret 12. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- ↑ "Jim Root of Slipknot – Guitar Rig and Gear Setup – 2004". GuitarGeek. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ↑ "Jim Root Rig Rundown". All Axess.
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