E♭ tuning

E♭ tuning

E♭ Tuning is a kind of guitar tuning. It is based on standard guitar tuning, except that all of the strings are lowered by a half-step. The result looks like this: E♭-A♭-D♭-G♭-B♭-E♭'. The guitar is usually played identically to standard tuning, resulting in a heavier tone without requiring the guitarist to learn different chords or fingering.

The tuning has a number of other features attractive to artists. Larger strings bend more easily. The tuning is also easier to play with a saxophone accompaniment (saxophones are usually tuned to B♭ or E♭). It can also be matched with the E♭ pentatonic minor scale formed by the black keys of a keyboard.

Blues legend Robert Johnson was one of the first to experiment with alternate guitar tunings such as E♭. The tuning remains very popular in rock and blues music.

Here are some bands that have used this tuning:
*AC/DC (on some albums)
*AFI (almost every song from Black Sails to Sing the Sorrow)
*Anthrax (Since Sound Of White Noise)
*Cannibal Corpse whenever using a 6-string guitar
*Guns N' Roses (Sweet Child O' Mine)
*Gwar
*Iced Earth
*Jimi Hendrix
*Kiss
*Megadeth
*Metallica (for "Load" and "ReLoad" and certain tracks off "Garage Inc" and played live shows since 1995, with that tune)
*Morbid Angel (when using six strings)
*Motörhead
*Muse (Only when performing Starlight and Fury live)
*Rage Against The Machine (on the studio version of Bulls On Parade)
*Nirvana
*Slayer (From Haunting The Chapel to Diabolus in Musica.)
*Stevie Ray Vaughan
*Van Halen
*Extreme
*Lynyrd Skynyrd (Simple Man)
*Linkin Park (Almost all of Hybrid Theory EP, select songs off all their albums and Somewhere I Belong when played live)
*Yngwie Malmsteen
*Dream Theater
*Deicide
*Rise Against
*The Killers
*The Smashing Pumpkins
*Thin Lizzy
*Blind Guardian (some albums)
*Edguy (some albums)
*Hammerfall (some albums)
*Stratovarius (some albums)
*Black Sabbath (Reunion Concert)
*Taking Back Sunday
*Poison
*Rhino Bucket
*Coheed and Cambria
*Relient K
*Weezer
*Garbage
*Green Day (Until Warning which was mostly in standard along with American Idiot)
*Eskimo Joe
*Stone Sour
*The Velvet Underground
*Dashboard Confessional
*Alice in Chains
*Sum 41 (For the majority of Chuck plus "Mr. Amsterdam" from Does This Look Infected?)
*CKY
*The Wildhearts
*Phil Ochs
*Circa Survive
*The Offspring (Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace and always live)
*Ozzy Osbourne with Zakk Wylde
*Sonata Arctica

ee also

*List of guitar tunings
*Guitar tuning

References


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