Drop B tuning

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 tune the 6th string a whole step down). As a result, it uses the same fingering as all other "drop" tunings.

Bands that have used Drop B

• 2Tm2,3 on the album Przyjdź
• Abigail Williams
• Acid Drinkers
• A Day to Remember
• Affiance
• Alcaeus on the album Weightworth
• All Shall Perish (on seven string guitars-the first six strings are tuned up a full set while the seventh string is left in standard tuning)
• Alter Bridge (on the song "Coming Home" from the album Blackbird)
• The Amity Affliction
• Anup Sastry
• A Perfect Circle
• Architects (on all of their albums aside from "Nightmares", which is in Drop C. However, on more recent albums, they have used a variation of this tuning in which they tune the lowest string to A♭.
• Art of Dying^[1]
• As Blood Runs Black on "Resist"
• Asking Alexandria (on most of the album "From Death to Destiny", and their "Right Now (Na Na Na)" cover on the "Punk Goes Pop 3" album).
• Attack Attack!
• Attila
• August Burns Red (on their album "Rescue & Restore)
• Babymetal
• Behemoth
• Betraying the Martyrs
• Black Stone Cherry^[2]
• Bleed From Within
• Bleeding Through
• Blinded colony
• Bring Me The Horizon (on all of their material prior to Suicide Season)
• Bury Tomorrow
• Carpathian
• The Chariot
• Chevelle
• Children of Bodom (on I Worship Chaos)
• Cloudkicker
• Codomo Dragon (コドモドラゴン)
• Coheed and Cambria
• ColdTears
• Conquer Divide
• Crossfaith
• Crown The Empire (on The Fallout)
• Creed (on 1/3 of Full Circle)
• Cult of Luna
• De La Tierra
• Celtic Frost (on their final album Monotheist)
• Damageplan (on "Wake Up", "Pride", "Explode", "Save Me", "Crawl", and "Blunt Force Trauma" from New Found Power)
• Dark Tranquillity (on "Nothing to No One" and "Focus Shift" from Fiction, and much of their material afterward.)
• Dead to Fall
• Demon Hunter
• DevilDriver (on their self-titled and The Fury of Our Maker's Hand albums)^[3]
• The Devil Wears Prada (band) (It is the primary tuning on Zombie EP and Dead Throne. It is also used on With Roots Above and Branches Below and 8:18)
• Disturbed (on "The Vengeful One"
• Dope
• Down^[4][5]
• Dream on Dreamer on their album Heartbound
• 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)
• The Gazette
• The Ghost Inside on their album Fury and the Fallen Ones
• Greeley Estates on their album No Rain, No Rainbow
• 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
• Humanfly (on their album Awesome Science)
• I Killed the Prom Queen (on their album Music for the Recently Deceased)
• Intronaut
• I See Stars
• Isis
• 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")
• Linkin Park on "Don't Stay" 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]
• Nickelback (on the song "Side of a Bullet")
• Nightwish (on the song "the Islander")
• Oceana
• Of Mice and Men
• Only the Chosen
• Odyssium
• 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
• Save Us From The Archon
• 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, World Painted Blood and "Implode")
• Slipknot^[11]
• Soul Mayhem
• Stone Sour^[12]
• Sienna Skies
• The Amity Affliction (on their album Chasing Ghosts)
• The Bride
• The Kills - "Future Starts Slow"
• Theory of a Deadman (on almost all songs from their first album, as well as most of Savages, and recent performances of Drop C#-tuned songs)
• This or the Apocalypse
• Thousand Foot Krutch
• Three Days Grace on the songs Drown (from their self-titled debut album) and The High Road (from Transit of Venus)
• To Our Forefathers
• Triptykon
• UFOMAMMUT
• Urge for Illusion
• Vanna
• Veil of Maya
• We Came as Romans
• Wretched
• Young Guns

References

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