Drop B tuning
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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 tune the 6th string a whole step down). As a result, it uses the same fingering as all other "drop" tunings.
Bands that have used Drop B
- 2Tm2,3 on the album Przyjdź
- Abigail Williams
- Acid Drinkers
- A Day to Remember
- Affiance
- Alcaeus on the album Weightworth
- All Shall Perish (on seven string guitars-the first six strings are tuned up a full set while the seventh string is left in standard tuning)
- Alter Bridge (on the song "Coming Home" from the album Blackbird)
- The Amity Affliction
- Anup Sastry
- A Perfect Circle
- Architects (on all of their albums aside from "Nightmares", which is in Drop C. However, on more recent albums, they have used a variation of this tuning in which they tune the lowest string to A♭.
- Art of Dying[1]
- As Blood Runs Black on "Resist"
- Asking Alexandria (on most of the album "From Death to Destiny", and their "Right Now (Na Na Na)" cover on the "Punk Goes Pop 3" album).
- Attack Attack!
- Attila
- August Burns Red (on their album "Rescue & Restore)
- Babymetal
- Behemoth
- Betraying the Martyrs
- 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 - on a lot of songs, some examples: "Family System", "Send the Pain Below", "Wonder What's Next", "Antisaint", "Well Enough Alone"...
- Children of Bodom (on I Worship Chaos)
- Cloudkicker
- Codomo Dragon (コドモドラゴン)
- Coheed and Cambria
- ColdTears
- 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 (band) (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 "The Vengeful One"
- 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)
- The Gazette
- The Ghost Inside on their album Fury and the Fallen Ones
- Greeley Estates on their album No Rain, No Rainbow
- 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
- Humanfly (on their album Awesome Science)
- I Killed the Prom Queen (on their album Music for the Recently Deceased)
- Intronaut
- I See Stars
- Isis
- 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")
- Linkin Park on "Don't Stay" 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]
- Nickelback (on the song "Side of a Bullet")
- Nightwish (on the song "the Islander")
- Oceana
- Of Mice and Men
- Only the Chosen
- Odyssium
- 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
- Save Us From The Archon
- 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, World Painted Blood and "Implode")
- Slipknot[11]
- Soul Mayhem
- Stone Sour[12]
- Sienna Skies
- The Amity Affliction (on their album Chasing Ghosts)
- The Bride
- The Kills - "Future Starts Slow"
- Theory of a Deadman (on almost all songs from their first album, as well as most of Savages, and recent performances of Drop C#-tuned songs)
- This or the Apocalypse
- Thousand Foot Krutch
- Three Days Grace on the songs Drown (from their self-titled debut album) and The High Road (from Transit of Venus)
- To Our Forefathers
- Triptykon
- UFOMAMMUT
- Urge for Illusion
- Vanna
- Veil of Maya
- We Came as Romans
- Wretched
- Young Guns
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