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Drop B tuning is a guitar tuning for a six-string guitar where the strings are tuned to B-F#-B-E-G#-C# (or B-G♭-B-E-A♭-D♭ ). This is a "drop 1" tuning in the key of C# (i.e. tune the whole guitar down a minor third from standard tuning , then the 6th string is lowered an additional whole step down). As a result, it uses the same fingering as all other "drop" tunings.
Bands that have used Drop B
Elitist Eyes Set to Kill (on their album Masks Famous Last Words For All Those Sleeping (on their album Outspoken For Today (on their Prevailer EP)From Ashes to New Funeral
The Gazette The Ghost Inside on their album Fury and the Fallen Ones Greeley Estates on their album No Rain, No Rainbow Halestorm (on the songs "Freak Like Me ", "I Get Off ", and "I Like it Heavy", though only Lzzy Hale uses drop B on the latter two)Hamlet (on most songs on Syberia , and the songs "Arruinando Nuestra Vida", "En Mi Nombre" and "Bajo Su Cuerpo" of the album Pura Vida )Heart in Hand I Killed the Prom Queen (on their album Music for the Recently Deceased Intronaut In Extremo (songs "Rasend Herz", "Horizont", "Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein")I See Stars Isis Islander It Prevails Iwrestledabearonce Karnivool (highest 3 strings are all tuned to E Standard tuning)King's X on their album Dogman (specifically, "Shoes", "Black the Sky" and "Don't Care")Lamb of God (on the song "Straight For The Sun")Limp Bizkit Linkin Park (on "Don't Stay" and "Nobody's Listening" from Meteora Lorna Shore Machine Head (tuned 40 cents sharp) [ 6] Memphis May Fire Motionless In White Mudvayne (on their album L.D. 50 )Mark Tremonti (on "Leave It Alone", "Giving Up", "Proof", "Decay", "All That I Got" and "Gone" from the All I Was sessions)][ 7] Mike Shinoda (On "Selector" from MTV VMA Score 2005 )Nickelback (on the song "Side of a Bullet ")Nightwish (on the song "the Islander ")Oceana Of Mice and Men Origin Palisades Papa Roach (on the songs "Warriors" and "Falling Apart")Parkway Drive Pathology (on the song "A Bleak Future")Pierce The Veil Projected [ 8] Raunchy Resist the Thought
Rob Zombie Seether (On the songs "Given" and "Tonight ")Sevendust (primary tuning, although several variations of it are also used)[ 9] [ 10] Skillet (On select songs from their album Comatose , as well as several songs transposed to Drop B for live concerts)Soilwork Slayer (On select songs from God Hates Us All , Christ Illusion , "Americon" from World Painted Blood , and half of the songs of Repentless )Slipknot [ 11] Soul Mayhem
Soundgarden (uses variated version from standard tuning : B A D G B E in "Rusty Cage ", "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" and "Holy Water")Stone Sour [ 12] Sienna Skies
Tears to Embers
The Amity Affliction The Kills - "Future Starts Slow"Theory of a Deadman This or the Apocalypse Thousand Foot Krutch Three Days Grace (on the song "Drown" from their self-titled debut album)Tool (uses variated versions from standard tuning : B A D G B E in "Prison Sex ", and B E D G B E in "Parabola ")Triptykon UFOMAMMUT Vanna Veil of Maya We Came as Romans Wretched Young Guns
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