Dropped A tuning

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Drop A Tuning is an alternate tuning for an electric guitar. It is of a very low pitch and requires extra-thick strings to use. Modifications to the guitar might also be needed. It is three and a half tones (7 semitones) lower than the standard guitar tuning, so the result looks like this: A-E-A-D-F♯-B'. There are also two alternate versions of Drop A: A-A-D-G-B-E and A-E-A-D-F♯-A.

[edit] Bands

Here are some bands who have used this tuning:

• Memento (Used on songs "Below" and "Coming" on their only album)
• Taproot (Used on the album Welcome, specifically heard in the songs "Poem", "Myself" and "Sumtimes")
• Nile
• Ghost of a Fallen Age
• Mastodon (Used a modified version, A-G-C-F-A-D, on "March of the Fire Ants," "Iron Tusk," "Circle of Cysquatch," and "Hunters of the Sky")
• Bury Your Dead (on the album Beauty and the Breakdown)
• The Melvins (used A-A-D-G-B-E on the song Boris on the 1991 album Bullhead
• Sunn O))) (A-E-A-D-F♯-A version)
• Giant Squid (A-A-D-G-B-E version)
• Nasum
• Rotten Sound
• Foo Fighters (A-A-D-G-B-E on the song "Stacked Actors")
• Impending Doom
• Muse (A-A-D-D-G-B-E seven-string tuning on the song "Citizen Erased")
• Suicide Silence
• Job for a Cowboy
• Whitechapel
• Carnifex
• The Argent Dawn
• The Berzerker
• Thrice uses drop A on many of their songs on the Alchemy Index vol. I Fire
• Slipknot use drop A tuning on some songs from the Iowa album. These include "My Plague", "Everything Ends", "The Heretic Anthem", and "New Abortion"
• Danger CAT
• SABO
• I Put the Laughter in Slaughter
• Radiohead (on the song "Bangers + Mash")
• Staind

[edit] See also

• List of guitar tunings
• Guitar tuning

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