B tuning
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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 sludge/stoner metal bands.
Bands
Six-String Version
Here are some bands who used this tuning on a six string guitar:
- 3D House Of Beef
- Soilwork
- Amon Amarth
- Cryptopsy
- Electric Wizard
- Carcass
- Hypocrisy
- Cathedral
- Despised Icon
- Iron Monkey
- Pro-Pain
- Type O Negative
- Demon Hunter
- At The Gates
- The Absence
- Vehemence
- Nickleback
- Soulfly
- Mudvayne
- SlipKnoT
- Epica
- Kataklysm
Seven-String Version
Here are some bands who used this tuning on a seven string guitar:
- Dream Theater
- John Petrucci
- Morbid Angel
- Hypocrisy
- Steve Vai
- Fear Factory
- Zero Hour
- Trivium
- All Shall Perish
- Unearth
- Epica