Dropped B tuning

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Dropped B is an alternate tuning for a guitar. It is similar to drop D and Dropped C tuning, but it is lowered from the former by Three semitones and lowered from the latter by one semitone. The result is B-F#-B-E-G#-C#.

[edit] Bands

Here is a short list of bands that have used this tuning:

• AFI
• At the Gates
• Audioslave
• Bleeding Through
• Breaking Benjamin
• Bring Me The Horizon
• Carpathian
• Cathedral
• Chevelle
• Cult of Luna
• Dark Tranquility (several songs on Fiction)
• Demon Hunter
• DevilDriver
• Drowning Pool
• Emmure
• Eternal Lord
• HIM
• I Killed The Prom Queen
• Isis
• It Dies Today (several songs on their Sirens album)
• Jesu
• Karnivool (Synops)
• Light Years
• Limp Bizkit
• Linkin Park (on the songs "Don't Stay" & "Nobody's Listening" as well as "Runaway" & "With You" when playing live from 2004 onwards)
• Machine Head
• Mudvayne (L.D. 50 only)
• The Ocean
• Origin
• Parkway Drive
• Sepultura
• Silverchair ("The Lever" & "One Way Mule")
• Slipknot (largely on their first and third albums)
• Soilwork
• Soulfly
• Stone Sour
• Sudden Shortcut
• Sunn O)))
• The Agony Scene
• The Chariot
• The GazettE
• Through the Eyes of the Dead
• Throwdown
• Tool (BADGBE on "Prison Sex" and BEDGBE on "Parabol/Parabola")
• Thousand Foot Krutch (Rawk fist)

[edit] See also

• List of guitar tunings
• B Tuning

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