B 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 sludge/metal bands.
Bands
Six-String Version
Here are some bands who used this tuning on a six string guitar:
- The Absence
- Amon Amarth
- Annotations Of An Autopsy
- Arch Enemy (Albums Black Earth, Stigmata and Burning Bridges)
- At The Gates
- Blood Red Throne (Album "Altered Genesis")
- Bolt Thrower
- Carcass
- Cathedral
- Chevelle (On several songs from This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) and almost all songs on Vena Sera)
- Crowbar
- Cryptopsy
- Demon Hunter
- Despised Icon
- Devourment
- el gato
- Electric Wizard
- Epica
- Evanescence
- Hypocrisy
- I Killed The Prom Queen
- Iron Monkey
- Kataklysm
- Laetus
- Linkin Park used BEADGB tuning on "With You" and "Runaway" from 2003 concerts.
- Mors Principium Est
- Mudvayne
- MyChildren MyBride
- Nickleback
- Noothgrush
- Pro-Pain
- The Project Hate MCMXCIX
- 3D House Of Beef
- Type O Negative
- Slipknot
- Soilwork
- Soulfly
- Torture Division
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
- In This Moment
- Linkin Park (On the songs "With You" & "Runaway")
- Lacuna Coil (On the album Karmacode)
- Zero Hour
- Trivium
- All Shall Perish
- Unearth
- Epica
- Cannibal Corpse
- Deftones
- Rompeprop
See also
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