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 several different types of metal bands.

Some bands use a tuning known as "drop A tuning", where they drop the low B to A, so the tuning for a 7-string guitar is as follows A1-E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4. Also, for a 6-string guitar, drop A tuning is achieved by tuning all strings down a 4th with the lowest string tuned 1 additional step down as follows A1-E2-A2-D3-F#3-B3. This is a "drop 1" tuning in the key of B (i.e. tune the whole guitar down a perfect fourth from standard tuning, then tune the 6th string a whole step down).

Used by

 * A Day to Remember (some songs)
 * Aborted
 * The Absence
 * Aeon (7-string guitars)
 * Aghora (7-string guitars) (on the album Aghora (album))
 * Allegaeon (7-string guitars)
 * All Shall Perish
 * Alterbeast
 * Alter Bridge (some songs)
 * Amaranthe (since Massive Addictive)
 * Amenra
 * Amon Amarth (on most albums)
 * Amputated
 * Anacrusis
 * Anal Cunt
 * ANTISMA
 * Anathema
 * Angel Vivaldi (7-string guitars)
 * Animals as Leaders (On most of their first album, 7-string guitars)
 * Arch Enemy (On their first three albums: Black Earth, Stigmata and Burning Bridges; and a few songs from their more recent albums)
 * Arctic Monkeys (If You Were There, Beware; Alex Turner uses a baritone guitar)
 * Arcturus
 * Armagedda
 * Asking Alexandria (some songs)
 * At the Gates
 * Attack Attack! (on the album self-titled Album)
 * Audioslave
 * Augury
 * Avatar (from Black Waltz onwards)
 * BABYMETAL
 * Bal-Sagoth
 * Battlelore
 * Behemoth
 * Benighted
 * Biomechanical (7-string guitars on the album)Cannibalised
 * Black Midi
 * Black Label Society (on "13 Years of Grief" from the album Stronger than Death)
 * Bloodbath
 * Blood Has Been Shed
 * Blood Red Throne (on the album Altered Genesis)
 * Blunt Force Trauma
 * Bongzilla
 * Bring Me the Horizon (on their album Count Your Blessings)
 * Brujeria
 * Brutart
 * Burial Invocation
 * Cannabis Corpse
 * Cannibal Corpse (7-string guitars)
 * Carpathian
 * Carach Angren
 * Cavalera Conspiracy (on the album Blunt Force Trauma and some songs on the album Inflikted)
 * Carajo (B flat tuning)
 * CarcassBlackstar
 * Cathedral (on the albums Forest of Equilibrium, The Ethereal Mirror, Statik Majik, and The Garden of Unearthly Delights)
 * Celtic Frost (on "Monotheist" and live performances during 2000s)
 * Cephalic Carnage
 * Coal Chamber (BEADGB, although some songs used drop A)
 * Coheed and Cambria (Key Entity Extraction II: Hollywood the Cracked, Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant)
 * Crowbar
 * Cryptopsy
 * Dave Matthews Band (On "You Never Know", “I Did It” and “The Space Between”)
 * Decapitated (On the Blood Mantra album)
 * Despised Icon
 * The Devil Wears Prada
 * Dismember
 * Divine Heresy (7-string guitars)
 * DragonForce (7-string guitars, except for the song "Three Hammers")
 * Dream Theater (7-string guitars) (used on many songs, including "Lie", "Caught in a Web" and "The Mirror" from Awake; the 1994 version of "To Live Forever"; "A Change of Seasons"; "Just Let Me Breathe" from Falling into Infinity; "Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity" from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, and most songs from the Twelve-step Suite)
 * Drowning Pool
 * Edenbridge (7-string guitars) (on some songs from their first five albums)
 * Edge Of Sanity
 * Éjfény
 * Electric Wizard
 * Eluveitie (on many songs)
 * Emperor (on the album Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise)
 * Engulfed (7-string guitars)
 * Entombed (on their album Left Hand Path)
 * Epica (on The Divine Conspiracy and all subsequent albums)
 * Eucharist
 * Evanescence (on "Going Under")
 * Exhumed
 * Fallujah (7-string guitars)
 * Fear Factory (used B on a six-string prior to Dino Cazares' 1995 switch to Ibanez, from whom he began 7-string guitars.)
 * Five Finger Death Punch
 * Fleshgod Apocalypse
 * Gemini Syndrome
 * Godflesh (used on the Godflesh EP and the Streetcleaner, Us and Them, and Hymns LPs
 * Grave
 * Graveworm
 * Hail of Bullets
 * Haken (7/8-string guitars)
 * Halestorm (drop A, on the song "I Am the Fire")
 * HIM (on many songs)
 * Hunting Humans
 * Hypocrisy (along with drop A on all albums up from The Fourth Dimension until The Arrival, after which A# Standard and Drop G# are used)
 * I Killed The Prom Queen
 * Illdisposed (All albums up until Burn Me Wicked)
 * Iron Monkey
 * Iwrestledabearonce
 * Jinjer (drop A, on their album King of Everything)
 * Joe Bonamassa (on "The Ballad of John Henry")
 * John Prine (on "The Late John Garfield Blues" and "Fish and Whistle" since 1998)
 * Jungle Rot
 * Kataklysm
 * Kingdom of Sorrow
 * King's X (along with drop A, on Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous and most subsequent albums)
 * Kenn Nardi
 * Kreator (some songs on the album "Renewal")
 * Krisiun
 * Kyuss (some songs on Wretch (album))
 * Lacuna Coil (7-string guitars)
 * Lead Belly was rumored to use this tuning in a 12-string variation.
 * Leprous (7-string guitars)
 * Lik
 * Linkin Park (BEADGB. Used on live performances of the songs "Runaway" and "With You" from 2003 onwards; originally recorded on standard tuned 7-string guitars)
 * Machine Head
 * Massacre (on Back from Beyond)
 * Mnemic
 * The Monolith Deathcult
 * Motionless in White
 * Mudvayne (on "Dig")
 * Muse (on "Won't Stand Down" and "Kill or Be Killed")
 * MyChildren MyBride
 * Ne Obliviscaris (7-string guitars)
 * Negură Bunget (7-string guitars)
 * Nekrogoblikon (7-string guitars)
 * Nickelback (some songs)
 * Nile (drop A)
 * Novembre
 * Oomph!
 * Otto Mann
 * Pain of Salvation (7-string guitars)
 * Parkway Drive
 * Pelican
 * Pomegranate Tiger (7-string guitars)
 * Pro-Pain
 * Profiles in Terror (7-string guitar and 6 guitar B tuned)
 * Raintime (7 string guitars)
 * Rammstein (on "Dicke Titten")
 * RED (drop A)
 * Rose Funeral
 * Satariel (7-string guitars)
 * Scar Symmetry (7 string guitars, on Symmetric in Design and Pitch Black Progress; have since switched to Drop A tuning)
 * Seventh Void
 * Sepultura (from Roots onward)
 * Seringai
 * Skinless
 * Shadow Over Innsmouth
 * Slayer (some songs)
 * Sleep (on their new single "Leagues Beneath")
 * Slipknot (drop A, on some songs)
 * Soilwork
 * Soulfly
 * Spawn of Possession (6- & 7-string guitars; Jonas Bryssling plays a 6 string, while Jonas Karlsson and Christian Muenzner's parts are written for 7 strings)
 * Spineshank
 * Stencher
 * Steve Vai (7-string guitars)
 * Stone Sour (some songs, including "Get Inside")
 * Sun Caged (7-string guitars)
 * Textures (7 string guitars)
 * Theory of a Deadman (on their song "No Surprise" and recent live performances of "Bad Girlfriend")
 * The Project Hate MCMXCIX
 * The Safety Fire (7-string guitars, drop A)
 * To/Die/For
 * Tremonti (on the title track of the album A Dying Machine, and on live performances of songs originally recorded in C tuning)
 * Triptykon
 * Trivium (7-string guitars, on some songs from The Crusade and all songs on Shogun)
 * Type O Negative
 * Unearth (7-string guitars)
 * Universum
 * Unleashed
 * Vehemence
 * Veil of Maya
 * Visceral Bleeding
 * Warning
 * Whitechapel (7-string guitars, only on a few songs)
 * Wicked Sisters
 * Winterfylleth (also use Drop A)
 * Within Temptation (lead guitarist Ruud Jolie uses 7-string guitars, while Robert Westerholt downtunes a six-string to B)
 * Wormed
 * Yanomamo
 * Yanomamo