B 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.
Baritone tuning
Some bands use a tuning known as "drop A tuning", where they drop the low B to A, so the tuning for a 7-string guitar is as follows A1-E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4. Also, for a 6-string guitar, drop A tuning is achieved by tuning all strings down a 4th with the lowest string tuned 1 additional step down as follows A1-E2-A2-D3-F#3-B3. This is a "drop 1" tuning in the key of B (i.e. tune the whole guitar down a perfect fourth from standard tuning, then tune the 6th string a whole step down).
Used by
- A Day to Remember (some songs)
- Aborted
- The Absence
- Aeon (7-string guitars)
- Aghora (7-string guitars) (on the album Aghora (album))
- Allegaeon (7-string guitars)
- All Shall Perish
- Alterbeast
- Alter Bridge (some songs)
- Amaranthe (since Massive Addictive)
- Amenra
- Amon Amarth (on most albums)
- Amputated
- Anacrusis
- Anal Cunt
- ANTISMA
- Anathema
- 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)
- Arctic Monkeys (If You Were There, Beware; Alex Turner uses a baritone guitar)
- Arcturus
- Armagedda
- Asking Alexandria (some songs)
- At the Gates
- Attack Attack! (on the album self-titled Album)
- Audioslave
- Augury
- Avatar (from Black Waltz onwards)
- Bal-Sagoth
- Battlelore
- Behemoth
- Benighted
- Biomechanical (7-string guitars on the album)Cannibalised
- Black Midi
- Black Label Society (on "13 Years of Grief" from the album Stronger than Death)
- Bloodbath
- Blood Has Been Shed
- Blood Red Throne (on the album Altered Genesis)
- Blunt Force Trauma
- Bongzilla
- Bring Me the Horizon (on their album Count Your Blessings)
- Brujeria
- Brutart
- Burial Invocation
- Cannabis Corpse
- Cannibal Corpse (7-string guitars)
- Carpathian
- Carach Angren
- Cavalera Conspiracy (on the album Blunt Force Trauma and some songs on the album Inflikted)
- Carajo (B flat tuning)
- CarcassBlackstar
- 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)
- Cephalic Carnage
- Coal Chamber (BEADGB, although some songs used drop A)
- Coheed and Cambria (Key Entity Extraction II: Hollywood the Cracked, Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant)
- Crowbar
- Cryptopsy
- Dave Matthews Band (On "You Never Know", “I Did It” and “The Space Between”)
- Decapitated (On the Blood Mantra album)
- Despised Icon
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Dismember
- Divine Heresy (7-string guitars)
- DragonForce (7-string guitars, except for the song "Three Hammers")[1]
- 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)
- Drowning Pool
- Edenbridge (7-string guitars) (on some songs from their first five albums)
- Edge Of Sanity
- Éjfény
- 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)
- Epica (on The Divine Conspiracy and all subsequent albums)
- Eucharist
- Evanescence (on "Going Under")
- Exhumed
- 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.)
- Five Finger Death Punch
- Fleshgod Apocalypse
- Gemini Syndrome
- Godflesh (used on the Godflesh EP and the Streetcleaner, Us and Them, and Hymns LPs
- Grave
- Graveworm
- Hail of Bullets
- Haken (7/8-string guitars)
- Halestorm (drop A, on the song "I Am the Fire")[2]
- HIM (on many songs)
- Hunting Humans
- Hypocrisy (along with drop A on all albums up from The Fourth Dimension until The Arrival, after which A# Standard and Drop G# are used)
- I Killed The Prom Queen
- Illdisposed (All albums up until Burn Me Wicked)
- Iron Monkey
- Iwrestledabearonce
- Jinjer (drop A, on their album King of Everything)[3]
- Joe Bonamassa (on "The Ballad of John Henry")
- John Prine (on "The Late John Garfield Blues" and "Fish and Whistle" since 1998)
- Jungle Rot
- Kataklysm
- Kingdom of Sorrow
- King's X (along with drop A, on Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous and most subsequent albums)[4]
- Kenn Nardi
- Kreator (some songs on the album "Renewal")
- Krisiun
- Kyuss (some songs on Wretch (album))
- Lacuna Coil (7-string guitars)
- Lead Belly was rumored to use this tuning in a 12-string variation.
- Leprous (7-string guitars)
- Lik
- 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)
- Machine Head
- Massacre (on Back from Beyond)
- Mnemic
- The Monolith Deathcult
- Motionless in White
- Mudvayne (on "Dig")
- Muse (on "Won't Stand Down" and "Kill or Be Killed")
- MyChildren MyBride
- Ne Obliviscaris (7-string guitars)
- Negură Bunget (7-string guitars)
- Nekrogoblikon (7-string guitars)
- Nickelback (some songs)
- Nile (drop A) [5]
- Novembre
- Oomph!
- Otto Mann
- Pain of Salvation (7-string guitars)
- Parkway Drive
- Pelican
- Pomegranate Tiger (7-string guitars)
- Pro-Pain
- Profiles in Terror (7-string guitar and 6 guitar B tuned)
- Raintime (7 string guitars)
- Rammstein (on "Dicke Titten")
- RED (drop A)[6]
- Rose Funeral
- Satariel (7-string guitars)
- Scar Symmetry (7 string guitars, on Symmetric in Design and Pitch Black Progress; have since switched to Drop A tuning)
- Seventh Void
- Sepultura (from Roots onward)
- Seringai
- Skinless
- Shadow Over Innsmouth
- Slayer (some songs)
- Sleep (on their new single "Leagues Beneath")
- Slipknot (drop A, on some songs)[7]
- Soilwork
- Soulfly
- 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)
- Spineshank
- Stencher
- Steve Vai (7-string guitars)
- Stone Sour (some songs, including "Get Inside")
- 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")
- The Project Hate MCMXCIX
- The Safety Fire (7-string guitars, drop A)[8]
- To/Die/For
- Tremonti (on the title track of the album A Dying Machine, and on live performances of songs originally recorded in C tuning)
- Triptykon
- Trivium (7-string guitars, on some songs from The Crusade and all songs on Shogun)
- Type O Negative
- Unearth (7-string guitars)
- Universum
- Unleashed
- Vehemence
- Veil of Maya
- Visceral Bleeding
- Warning
- 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)
- Wormed
- Yanomamo
See also
References
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