D tuning

D tuning.

D Tuning, also called One Step Lower, Whole Step Down, or D Standard, is an alternate tuning for guitar. Each string is lowered by a whole tone or two semitones resulting in D-G-C-F-A-D It is used mostly by heavy metal bands to achieve a heavier, deeper sound and by blues guitarists, who use it to accommodate string bending.

Here are some bands who used this tuning on a six string guitar:

• Robin Trower (On Later Albums)
• Paul Mccartney on yesterday.
• Insomnium
• Death
• Dream Theater (used on the songs "Never Enough" and "Rite of Passage")
• All That Remains
• Bullet for My Valentine (on most of the songs on the album Scream Aim Fire)
• CKY
• Control Denied
• Cradle of Filth (Most songs)
• Mastodon
• Judas Priest (Live performances during the Ripper Owens era).
• Kreator
• Machine Head (on some songs from Burn My Eyes such as Old)
• Mötley Crüe
• Metallica (On the songs "Sad but True", "Devil's Dance", "The Thing That Should Not Be", and for live performances of "Seek and Destroy".)
• Necrophagist
• Nirvana (On the songs 'Lithium', 'Come As You Are' and 'Drain You' from the album Nevermind)
• Nightwish (Since the Century Child album)
• Gojira
• Shadows Fall
• Testament (Notably on First Strike Still Deadly)
• Creedence Clearwater Revival