D tuning
D Tuning, also called One Step Lower, Whole Step Down, or D Standard, is an alternate tuning to a guitar. Each string is lowered by a whole tone or two semitones. The end result is this: D-G-c-f-a-d'. It is used mostly by heavy metal bands to achieve a lower sound and by blues guitarists, who use it to accommodate string bending.
Bands/Players
Here is a list of bands or players who have used this tuning:
- Bullet For My Valentine on their CD Scream Aim Fire
- Albert King
- The Velvet Underground
- Guns N' Roses
- Blink 182
- Symphony X
- Korn (7 string D tuning, ADGCFAD)
- Alice in Chains
- Soundgarden
- Elliott Smith
- Killing Joke
- Bob Dylan
- Pink Floyd
- Local Porn Star
- Death
- Mötley Crüe
- Fu Manchu
- Children of Bodom
- Swans
- Symphony X
- The Used
- Drive-By Truckers
- Gojira
- Jeff Buckley
- Dream Theater
- Necrophagist
- Nirvana
- Sentenced
- Vital Remains
- Alter Bridge
- Nightwish
- The Beatles
- All That Remains
- Jimmy Eat World
- Creed (band)
- Racer X