Drop C tuning

Drop C tuning can be used to refer to two different alternative guitar tunings:

• CGCFAD - The most commonly^{[citation needed]} intended meaning of Drop C, though the term is incorrect. This can be described as "standard D tuning with a dropped C", or "drop D tuning transposed down a whole step", where the entire guitar is transposed to the key of D, then the low D is moved down an additional whole step to C. For usage and benefits, see Drop D tuning.^[1]
• CADGBE - This is the technical definition of dropped C tuning - there is no other way to describe this tuning other than "dropped C", and it is achieved by taking standard tuning (EADGBE) and dropping the low E to a C.^[2] This tuning is used by the band Muse on the song "Map of the Problematique". John Mayer also implements this tuning on his song "Neon". Coldplay use this tuning for their song "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" on their album of the same name.

Bands who have used CGCFAD:

• 12 Stones
• A Day to Remember
• Adelitas Way
• The Agony Scene
• Alter Bridge - on some songs such as "Isolation"
• Anberlin
• Arsonists Get All The Girls
• As I Lay Dying
• Asking Alexandria
• Atreyu
• August Burns Red
• Between The Buried And Me
• Bullet For My Valentine
• Biffy Clyro
• The Black Dahlia Murder (only on the 'Unhallowed" album)
• Black Stone Cherry
• Breaking Benjamin - On most songs from We Are Not Alone, as well as Blow Me Away and 3 songs from Dear Agony.
• Children of Bodom
• Chimaira
• Converge
• Cradle of Filth
• Darkest Hour
• Decyfer Down - On Crash
• Deftones - On White Pony
• Demon Hunter - On their self-titled debut album.
• Disturbed
• Dry Kill Logic
• Escape the Fate
• Evanescence
• Evans Blue
• Godsmack
• Go Radio
• Hatebreed
• I Set My Friends On Fire
• Ill Niño
• Kalmah
• Killswitch Engage
• Lamb of God
• Lostprophets
• Lovehatehero
• Mastodon
• Metallica - On St. Anger
• Mudvayne - all albums since The End of All Things to Come and all live performances.
• Murderdolls - Since Women and Children Last.
• Nickelback
• Nonpoint
• P.O.D.
• Papa Roach
• Periphery
• Pillar
• Poison The Well
• Prong
• Protest The Hero (On most songs off their debut album Kezia)
• Rammstein - On Reise, Reise and Rosenrot
• RED - on some songs
• Savatage - on the songs "Power of the Night" and "Hall of the Mountain King"
• Saving Abel (on Miss America)
• Seasons After
• Seether
• Shadows Fall
• Sick Puppies
• Skillet
• Skindred
• Slipknot - On Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.
• Slo Burn
• Stone Sour - On some songs from Audio Secrecy. These songs are played live in Dropped B tuning.
• The Sword - On "Freya"
• System of a Down - On their self-titled album, Toxicity, Steal This Album!, Question! and Dreaming.
• Taproot
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• Theory of a Deadman - also on live performances of songs originally in Drop B.
• Three Days Grace
• Thrice
• Trapt
• Zakk Wylde - with Black Label Society and during his later career with Ozzy Osbourne

References

1. ^ "Drop C Guitar Tuning: C G C F A D". http://www.howtotuneaguitar.org/tuning/drop-c/. ^{[unreliable source?]}
2. ^ "Drop C Tuning for the Guitar". http://www.dropctuning.com/. ^{[unreliable source?]}