Dropped B tuning

Drop B tuning.

A Dropped B tuning is an alternate tuning for the guitar, where the strings are tuned to B-F♯-B-E-G♯-C♯.^[1] It can also be put down as B-G♭-B-E-A♭-D♭. It is a dropped tuning, with all strings tuned down a minor third (one and a half whole steps) from a drop D tuning. As a result, chord fingering is the same as for drop D, which in turn differs from standard fingering only in the sixth string.

This tuning was popularized by Sepultura on their album Roots and has been since used extensively in groove and nu metal. It is often used by Wes Borland while performing in Limp Bizkit, and is the main tuning used by Slipknot. This tuning was also used by Dimebag Darrell during his time in Damageplan, as well as Mudvayne on their L.D. 50 album (all live performances of those songs, as well as all subsequent albums, are in Drop C tuning.) It has been used by bands such as Attack Attack!, Bring Me the Horizon (on their early material), Demon Hunter, Solution .45, Ektomorf (until 2009; since then they changed to Dropped A tuning), Parkway Drive, Machine Head (tuned up 40% of 1/2 step, considered one of the first bands to tune Drop B), Throwdown, and Slayer (on some songs on later albums); all of which are considered mainstream metal bands. It is also frequently used in alternative metal, hard rock, and post-grunge by bands such as Chevelle, Drowning Pool, Karnivool, Sevendust, Theory of a Deadman (first album), Lo-Pro, Architects, Stone Sour, Rumour Has Wings, Hail the Villain, Thousand Foot Krutch, Unloco, RED (on some songs), Art of Dying, Nickelback (on the song "Side of a Bullet"), Skillet, Three Days Grace (on the song "Drown" from their first album) and Black Stone Cherry (on the songs "White Trash Millionaire", "Killing Floor", "Staring at the Mirror", and "Die For You", all from Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea), among others. A variant of dropped B tuning is also used by the band Part Chimp, however, both guitarists in the band tune every guitar string to B.

References

1. ^ "BF#BEG#Db Online Guitar Tuner - Drop B Tuning". http://www.chorder.com/online-guitar-tuner/BF%23BEG%23Db-dropped_b_guitar_tuning. ^{[self-published source?]}

External links

• "How to Tune in Drop B". eHow. http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_6112066_tune-drop-b.html. 

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