Drop B tuning
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.
Bands and musicians that have used Drop B
A—D
- A Hope for Home
- Abigail Williams
- Acid Drinkers
- Affiance
- Alien Weaponry
- All Shall Perish
- All That Remains (on their first album Behind Silence and Solitude and on most songs from Madness and Victim of the New Disease)
- Alter Bridge
- Andy Shauf
- Amenra
- Amatory (album "Вечно прячется судьба"
- The Amity Affliction
- Architects (on their fourth studio album, The Here and Now)
- Art of Dying[1]
- As Blood Runs Black (on several songs on Instinct)
- Asking Alexandria
- Attack Attack!
- Attila
- August Burns Red (on some songs starting from Rescue & Restore)
- Ava Inferi (on a few songs)
- Avatar
- Babymetal
- Bad Omens
- Baroness
- Black Light Burns
- Black Stone Cherry[2]
- Black Veil Brides (on the songs "I Am Bulletproof", "World of Sacrifice", "Stolen Omen", and "The Last One")
- Bleed from Within
- Bleeding Through
- Blind Witness
- Blinded Colony
- Bongripper
- 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)
- Bury Tomorrow
- Cannabis Corpse
- Carpathian
- The Chariot
- 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)
- Code Orange
- Coldrain (on their earlier singles, prior to Final Destination where they switched to drop B-flat)
- Coheed and Cambria
- Conquer Divide
- Creed (on 1/3 of Full Circle)
- The Crimson Armada (on the album Conviction)
- Crossfaith
- Crown the Empire (on The Fallout)
- Cult of Luna
- 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)
- A Day to Remember
- De La Tierra
- Dead to Fall
- Demon Hunter
- 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.)
- Dope
- Down[4][5]
- Dream on Dreamer on their album Heartbound
E—O
- Eighteen Visions (Except for XVIII)
- Elder Druid
- Elitist
- Evanescence (on some songs)
- Eyes Set to Kill (on their albums Masks and Eyes Set to Kill)
- Famous Last Words
- Fear Factory (Primarily on Soul of a New Machine)
- Five Finger Death Punch
- For All Those Sleeping (on their album Outspoken)
- For Today (on their Prevailer EP and their album Fight the Silence)
- From Ashes to New
- Funeral
- Gatecreeper
- The Gazette
- Gemini Syndrome
- 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)
- Hands Like Houses
- Harm's Way (band)
- Heart in Hand
- I Killed the Prom Queen (on their album Music for the Recently Deceased)
- I Prevail
- I See Stars
- Ice Nine Kills (on some songs starting from Safe Is Just a Shadow)
- Illdisposed
- In Extremo (songs "Rasend Herz", "Horizont", "Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein")
- Intronaut
- Isis
- Islander
- Iwrestledabearonce
- 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")
- Knights of the Abyss
- 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]
- 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")
- Memphis May Fire
- Misery Index (on the songs "Rituals of Power" and "Naysayer")
- Möngöl Hörde[8]
- Motionless In White
- 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")
- Nothing More
- Oceana
- Of Mice and Men
- Origin
P—Z
- Palisades
- Papa Roach (on the songs "Warriors", and "Falling Apart")
- Parkway Drive (on most albums)
- Pathology (on the song "A Bleak Future")
- A Perfect Circle
- Pierce the Veil
- Projected[9]
- Raunchy
- Rob Zombie
- 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]
- Shadow of Intent
- Mike Shinoda (on "Selector" from MTV VMA Score 2005)
- Sienna Skies
- 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]
- Soilwork
- Soundgarden on the songs "Rusty Cage", "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" and "Holy Water"
- Stone Sour[13]
- Theory of a Deadman
- This or the Apocalypse
- Thousand Foot Krutch
- 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")
- Ufomammut
- Underoath (on some songs from Ø (Disambiguation) and Erase Me along with D tuning and drop C tuning)
- Ulcerate
- Vanna
- Veil of Maya
- Vorvaň
- We Came as Romans
- Weekend Nachos
- Wretched
- Young Guns
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