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Type of guitar tuning
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.
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)
BABYMETAL
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)
Carcass Blackstar
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
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