B tuning

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

ix-String Version

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

*The Absence
*Amon Amarth
*Arch Enemy (Albums Black Earth, Stigmata and Burning Bridges)
*At The Gates
*Blood Red Throne (Album "Altered Genesis")
*Bolt Thrower
*Bring Me The Horizon
*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
*el gato
*Electric Wizard
*Epica
*Evanescence
*Hypocrisy
*I Killed The Prom Queen
*Iron Monkey
*Kataklysm
*Mudvayne
*MyChildren MyBride
*Nickleback
*Noothgrush
*Pro-Pain
*The Project Hate MCMXCIX
* 3D House Of Beef
*Type O Negative
*Soilwork
*Soulfly
*Torture Division
*Vehemence

even-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
*Linkin Park (On the songs "With You" & "Runaway")
*Lacuna Coil (On the album Karmacode)
*Zero Hour
*Trivium
*All Shall Perish
*Unearth
*Epica
*Cannibal Corpse

ee also

*List of guitar tunings
*Guitar tuning
*Dropped B


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