Jun 17, 2019 The guitar is almost tuned ‘all-fourths’ except for that gap between the G and B string, which is a major third. A major third is measured as two full tones apart, or 4 piano keys (like C to E), or 4 frets on the guitar. How the Guitar is Tuned. The typical guitar is tuned in ‘standard tuning’, which we’ve described as EADGBE. Resources Guitar Tuner Standard Guitar Tuner: Free Online Guitar Tuner. E: A: D: G: B: E: Standard Tuning Drop D Tuning Drop G Tuning Open D Tuning Open G Tuning Open C Tuning: Guitar Tuner with Pitch Detection. Click to activate below, and then click 'Allow' in the window that appears. The difference is that while drop D is only slightly heavier sounding than standard tuning, drop B is another three half-steps lower, giving a much darker and heavier sound. Get heavy strings. Use a set of 0.013 to 0.056 gauge strings or heavier.
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.
The following is a list of musical groups who use this tuning on six-string or seven-string guitars:
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- Aeon (7-string guitars)
- Aghora (7-string guitars) (on the album Aghora (album))
- Allegaeon (7-string guitars)
- Amaranthe (since Massive Addictive)
- Amon Amarth (on most albums)
- 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)
- Arcturus on the album The Sham Mirrors
- Attack Attack! on the album self-titled Album
- Avatar (from Black Waltz onwards)
- Biomechanical (7-string guitars) on the album Cannibalised
- Black Label Society On '13 Years of Grief' from the album Stronger Than Death
- Blood Red Throne on the album Altered Genesis
- Cannibal Corpse (7-string guitars)
- Cavalera Conspiracy (on the album Blunt Force Trauma and some songs on the album Inflikted)
- Carajo (B flat tuning)
- 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)
- Coal Chamber (BEADGB, although some songs are dropped to A)
- Coheed and Cambria (Key Entity Extraction II: Hollywood the Cracked, Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant)
- Dave Matthews Band (On 'You Never Know')
- Divine Heresy (7-string guitars)
- DragonForce (7-string guitars)
- 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)
- Edenbridge (7-string guitars) (on some songs from their first five albums)
- Electric Wizard on the album Dopethrone
- 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)
- 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.)
- Godflesh (used on the Godflesh EP and the Streetcleaner, Us and Them, and Hymns LPs
- HIM (7-string guitars) (on many songs)
- Human Device
- Hypocrisy (On all albums up from The Fourth Dimension until The Arrival, after which A# Standard and Drop G# are used)
- Illdisposed (All albums up until Burn Me Wicked)
- John Prine (on 'The Late John Garfield Blues' and 'Fish and Whistle' since 1998)
- King's X (on the album Black Like Sunday)[1]
- Kreator (some songs on the album 'Renewal')
- Kyuss (some songs on Wretch (album))
- Lacuna Coil (7-string guitars)
- Lead Belly was rumored to use this tuning in a 12-string variation.
- 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)
- Massacre (on Back from Beyond)
- Negură Bunget (7-string guitars)
- Nekrogoblikon (7-string guitars)
- Pain of Salvation (7-string guitars)
- Pomegranate Tiger (7-string guitars)
- Profiles in Terror (7-string guitar and 6 guitar B tuned)
- Raintime (7 string guitars)
- Satariel (7-string guitars)
- Scar Symmetry (7 string guitars, on Symmetric in Design and Pitch Black Progress; have since switched to Drop A tuning)
- Sepultura (from Roots onward)
- Sleep (on their new single 'Leagues Beneath')
- 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)
- Steve Vai (7-string guitar)
- 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')
- Tremonti (on the title track of the album A Dying Machine, and on live performances of songs originally recorded in C tuning)
- Trivium (7-string guitars, on some songs from The Crusade and all songs on Shogun)
- Type O Negative (on some songs)
- Unearth (7-string guitars)
- 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)
- Yanomamo
- Brightside to kill (Along Journey)
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- ^'Ty Tabor – Kings X – 2008'. GuitarGeek. Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.