- Electric Guitar Standard Tuning
- B Standard Tuning Guitar Key
- Guitar Drop B Tuning
- B Standard Tuning Guitar Notes
This allows for the note range of B standard tuning without transposing E standard guitar chords down two and a half steps down. Baritone 7-string guitars are available which features a longer scale-length allowing it to be tuned to a lower range. Standard 7-string tuning - B'-E-A-d-g-b-e' This is the standard tuning for a seven-string guitar. B ♭ tuning, or A ♯ tuning, is a method of guitar tuning (and stringed instruments per se) in which all strings on a six-stringed instrument, most often guitar, are tuned down by 3 steps.For example, standard guitar tuning is E A D G B E. B♭ tuning starts by tuning the lowest string on a guitar E, to B♭ and then tuning all strings down in the same interval of 3 steps down. Aug 12, 2019 20 of the heaviest B standard riffs! Subscribe for more covers/originals here Check out my new band TERMINA here: https://youtu.be/n9.
Baritone tuning.
B Tuning or B Standard Tuning is the standard tuning for a seven string guitar, where the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-G-B-E. B tuning can also be achieved on a six-string guitar, when the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-F♯-B, known then as Baritone Tuning. This tuning is popular among several different types of metal bands.
The following is a list of musical groups who use this tuning on six-string or seven-string guitars:
- Aeon (7-string guitars)
- Aghora (7-string guitars) (on the album Aghora (album))
- Allegaeon (7-string guitars)
- Amaranthe (since Massive Addictive)
- Amon Amarth (on most albums)
- Angel Vivaldi (7-string guitars)
- Animals as Leaders (On most of their first album, 7-string guitars)
- Arch Enemy (On their first three albums: Black Earth, Stigmata and Burning Bridges; and a few songs from their more recent albums)
- Arcturus on the album The Sham Mirrors
- Attack Attack! on the album self-titled Album
- Avatar (from Black Waltz onwards)
- Biomechanical (7-string guitars) on the album Cannibalised
- Black Label Society On '13 Years of Grief' from the album Stronger Than Death
- Blood Red Throne on the album Altered Genesis
- Cannibal Corpse (7-string guitars)
- Cavalera Conspiracy (on the album Blunt Force Trauma and some songs on the album Inflikted)
- Carajo (B flat tuning)
- Cathedral (on the albums Forest of Equilibrium, The Ethereal Mirror, Statik Majik, and The Garden of Unearthly Delights)
- Celtic Frost (on 'Monotheist' and live performances during 2000s)
- Coal Chamber (BEADGB, although some songs are dropped to A)
- Coheed and Cambria (Key Entity Extraction II: Hollywood the Cracked, Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant)
- Dave Matthews Band (On 'You Never Know')
- Decapitated (On the Blood Mantra album)
- Divine Heresy (7-string guitars)
- DragonForce (7-string guitars)
- Dream Theater (7-string guitars) (used on many songs, including 'Lie', 'Caught in a Web' and 'The Mirror' from Awake; the 1994 version of 'To Live Forever'; 'A Change of Seasons'; 'Just Let Me Breathe' from Falling into Infinity; 'Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity' from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, and most songs from the Twelve-step Suite)
- Edenbridge (7-string guitars) (on some songs from their first five albums)
- Electric Wizard on the album Dopethrone
- Eluveitie (on many songs)
- Emperor on the album Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
- Engulfed (7-string guitars)
- Entombed (on their album Left Hand Path)
- Fallujah (7-string guitars)
- Fear Factory (used B on a six-string prior to Dino Cazares' 1995 switch to Ibanez, from whom he began 7-string guitars.)
- Godflesh (used on the Godflesh EP and the Streetcleaner, Us and Them, and Hymns LPs
- HIM (7-string guitars) (on many songs)
- Human Device
- Hypocrisy (On all albums up from The Fourth Dimension until The Arrival, after which A# Standard and Drop G# are used)
- Illdisposed (All albums up until Burn Me Wicked)
- John Prine (on 'The Late John Garfield Blues' and 'Fish and Whistle' since 1998)
- King's X (on the album Black Like Sunday)[1]
- Kreator (some songs on the album 'Renewal')
- Kyuss (some songs on Wretch (album))
- Lacuna Coil (7-string guitars)
- Lead Belly was rumored to use this tuning in a 12-string variation.
- Linkin Park (BEADGB. Used on live performances of the songs 'Runaway' and 'With You' from 2003 onwards; originally recorded on standard tuned 7-string guitars)
- Massacre (on Back from Beyond)
- Negură Bunget (7-string guitars)
- Nekrogoblikon (7-string guitars)
- Pain of Salvation (7-string guitars)
- Pomegranate Tiger (7-string guitars)
- Profiles in Terror (7-string guitar and 6 guitar B tuned)
- Raintime (7 string guitars)
- Satariel (7-string guitars)
- Scar Symmetry (7 string guitars, on Symmetric in Design and Pitch Black Progress; have since switched to Drop A tuning)
- Sepultura (from Roots onward)
- Sleep (on their new single 'Leagues Beneath')
- Spawn of Possession (6- & 7-string guitars; Jonas Bryssling plays a 6 string, while Jonas Karlsson and Christian Muenzner's parts are written for 7 strings)
- Steve Vai (7-string guitar)
- Sun Caged (7-string guitars)
- Textures (7 string guitars)
- Theory of a Deadman (on their song 'No Surprise' and recent live performances of 'Bad Girlfriend')
- Tremonti (on the title track of the album A Dying Machine, and on live performances of songs originally recorded in C tuning)
- Trivium (7-string guitars, on some songs from The Crusade and all songs on Shogun)
- Type O Negative (on some songs)
- Unearth (7-string guitars)
- Whitechapel (7-string guitars, only on a few songs)
- Wicked Sisters
- Winterfylleth (also use Drop A)
- Within Temptation (lead guitarist Ruud Jolie uses 7-string guitars, while Robert Westerholt downtunes a six-string to B)
- Yanomamo
- Brightside to kill (Along Journey)
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References[edit]
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- ^'Ty Tabor – Kings X – 2008'. GuitarGeek. Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
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Drop B tuning is a heavy metal 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. This tuning and other drop tunings are popular with a variety of genres of metal music, including Nu-Metal bands. The tuning's use was popularized by Slipknot on their self-titled album.
Electric Guitar Standard Tuning
Bands and musicians that have used Drop B[edit]
A—D[edit]
- All That Remains (on their first album Behind Silence and Solitude and on most songs from Madness and Victim of the New Disease)
- Architects (on their fourth studio album, The Here and Now)
- Art of Dying[1]
- As Blood Runs Black (on several songs on Instinct)
- August Burns Red (on some songs starting from Rescue & Restore)
- Ava Inferi (on a few songs)
- Black Stone Cherry[2]
- Black Veil Brides (on the songs 'I Am Bulletproof', 'World of Sacrifice', 'Stolen Omen', and 'The Last One')
- Bring Me the Horizon (on all of their material prior to Suicide Season)
- Buckethead (on the song 'Frozen Brains Tell No Tales' from Bucketheadland 2)
- Bullet for My Valentine (on most songs from their album Gravity)
- Chevelle (nearly all albums since Wonder What's Next, though used sporadically after Hats Off to the Bull)
- Children of Bodom (on most songs from I Worship Chaos and Hexed)
- Coldrain (on their earlier singles, prior to Final Destination where they switched to drop B-flat)
- Creed (on 1/3 of Full Circle)
- The Crimson Armada (on the album Conviction)
- Crown the Empire (on The Fallout)
- 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)
- David Wilcox (on 'That's What the Lonely Is For' as performed currently and on The Very Best of David Wilcox and Live Songs and Stories)
- DevilDriver (on their self-titled and The Fury of Our Maker's Hand albums)[3]
- The Devil Wears Prada (primary tuning on Zombie EP and Dead Throne, also used on other albums)
- Disturbed (on most tracks on Immortalized and Evolution, and on live performances on 'Stricken' since 2015.)
- Down[4][5]
- Dream on Dreamer on their album Heartbound
E—O[edit]
- Eighteen Visions (Except for XVIII)
- Evanescence (on some songs)
- Eyes Set to Kill (on their albums Masks and Eyes Set to Kill)
- Fear Factory (Primarily on Soul of a New Machine)
- For All Those Sleeping (on their album Outspoken)
- For Today (on their Prevailer EP and their album Fight the Silence)
- 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', 'Painkiller', 'Jump the Gun', live performances of 'Killing Ourselves to Live', '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)
- I Killed the Prom Queen (on their album Music for the Recently Deceased)
- Ice Nine Kills (on some songs starting from Safe Is Just a Shadow)
- In Extremo (songs 'Rasend Herz', 'Horizont', 'Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein')
- Karnivool (highest 3 strings are all tuned to E Standard tuning)
- The Kills (on the song 'Future Starts Slow')
- 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')
- Linkin Park (on 'Don't Stay' and 'Nobody's Listening' from Meteora)
- Machine Head (tuned 40 cents sharp)[6]
- Mark Tremonti (on 'Leave It Alone', 'Giving Up', 'Proof', 'Decay', 'All That I Got', and 'Gone' from the All I Was sessions, as well as some songs from Cauterize and Dust)[7]
- Marilyn Manson (on the songs 'Antichrist Superstar' and 'Ka-boom Ka-boom')
- Misery Index (on the songs 'Rituals of Power' and 'Naysayer')
- Möngöl Hörde[8]
- Mudvayne (on their album L.D. 50)
- My Dying Bride (on a few songs)
- Nickelback (on the song 'Side of a Bullet')
- Nightwish (on the song 'the Islander')
P—Z[edit]
- Papa Roach (on the songs 'Revenge' 'Warriors', and 'Falling Apart')
- Parkway Drive (on most albums)
- Pathology (on the song 'A Bleak Future')
- Projected[9]
- Seether (on the songs 'Given' and 'Tonight')
- Sepultura (on the song 'Roots Bloody Roots' for example)
- Sevendust (primary tuning, although several variations of them are also used)[10][11]
- Mike Shinoda (on 'Selector' from MTV VMA Score 2005)
- Skillet (on select songs from their album Comatose, as well as several songs transposed to Drop B for live concerts)
- Slayer (on select songs from God Hates Us All, Christ Illusion, 'Americon' from World Painted Blood, and half of the songs of Repentless)
- Sleeping With Sirens (on select songs from the albums How It Feels To Be Lost, Feel, and Gossip
- Slipknot[12]
- Soundgarden on the songs Rusty Cage, Searching With My Good Eye Closed and Holy Water
- Stone Sour[13]
- Three Days Grace (on the song 'Drown' from their self-titled debut album and their cover of Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used to Know')
- Underoath (on some songs from Ø (Disambiguation) and Erase Me along with D tuning and drop C tuning)
B Standard Tuning Guitar Key
References[edit]
Guitar Drop B Tuning
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- ^'Mongol Horde - Casual Threats From Weekend Hardmen (Tab)'. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
- ^Connolly, John. 'HELLo guitars and tuning explanation'. John Connolly. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
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- ^'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.
B Standard Tuning Guitar Notes
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