Drop C tuning
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Dropped C tuning: CGCFAD, also known simply as drop C, is an alternative guitar tuning style in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down two tones ("dropped") to C and the rest of the strings is tuned down one tone.
[edit] Usage of dropped C tuning
The difference of drop C from standard tuning is that drop C allows for the bottom three strings to form a C5 power chord, which can be shifted up or down the fretboard with a single finger (usually the index) to produce any power chord quickly and easily.
[edit] Artists who use Dropped C tuning
- Haste the Day play many of their songs in Drop C.
- Helmet have recorded their most recent albums with this tuning, alternating with Dropped D.
- Children of Bodom recorded Are You Dead Yet? album in dropped C tuning.
- System of a Down make heavy use of dropped C tuning on their first three albums, System of a Down, Toxicity, and Steal This Album!.
- As I Lay Dying play almost all of their songs in Drop C.
- Killswitch Engage also utilize Dropped-C tuning.
- Breaking Benjamin has been known to use Drop C tuning, such as in the single, So Cold.
- Disturbed also uses Drop C tuning a lot.
- Bullet for My Valentine uses Drop C tuning on their CD The Poison.
- Rammstein has recorded Reise, Reise and Rosenrot in Drop C.
- Jimmy Page uses Drop C tuning for Led Zeppelin's song Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
- Steve Vai uses Drop C tuning for his song Bad Horsie
- Three Days Grace uses Drop C tuning for most of the songs from the album 1X
- Heaven Shall Burn also use Drop C in several songs, including Counterweight and The Weapon they Fear
- Black Stone Cherry uses Drop C and Drop C#
- 12 Stones uses Drop C tuning in the song Photograph
