Drop C tuning

Drop C tuning (CGCFAD)

Drop C tuning (CGCFAD) (listen)

Drop C tuning can be used to refer to any of many different alternative guitar tunings:

• CGDGBE - Dropping the low E string to a C, and the A string to a G, to make a fifth chord. The rest of the strings remain the same
• CADGBE – This is achieved by taking standard tuning (EADGBE) and dropping the low E to a C. All other strings remain the same.
• CGCFAD – The most commonly intended meaning of Drop C. This can be described as "standard D tuning with a dropped C", or "drop D tuning transposed down a whole step", where the entire guitar is transposed to the key of D, then the low D is moved down an additional whole step to C. This variation is a common tuning for many different kinds of rock and metal bands.^{[citation needed]}

Bands that have used CGCFAD

• Alter Bridge - on some songs such as "Isolation"
• At the Gates
• Atreyu – on their song "Storm to Pass"
• Carcass
• Dååth
• Dope
• Killswitch Engage
• Metallica - On St. Anger
• Nirvana - "Something in the Way"
• Brad Richter - on the piece "Flirtation"
• System of a Down - On their self-titled album, Toxicity, Steal This Album!, Question! and Dreaming.