E♭ tuning
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E♭ Tuning is a kind of guitar tuning where all of the strings are lowered by a half-step. The result looks like this: E♭-A♭-D♭-G♭-B♭-E♭'. It is a very versatile tuning, as it can be combined with another style of tuning (e.g. drop D, Dropped C).
There are many reasons a band would use this tuning: to make larger strings bend more easily, to make the tone heavier, to better suit the vocalist's range, to play with saxophone family more easily, or to play in E♭ pentatonic minor formed by the black keys of a keyboard.
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Here are some bands that have used this tuning:
- AC/DC (on some albums)
- AFI (almost every song from Black Sails to Sing the Sorrow)
- Anthrax (Since Sound Of White Noise)
- Cannibal Corpse whenever using a 6-string guitar
- Guns N' Roses
- Gwar
- Iced Earth
- Jimi Hendrix
- Kiss
- Megadeth
- Metallica (for Load (album) and ReLoad (album) and certain tracks off Garage Inc and always live)
- Morbid Angel (when using six strings)
- Motörhead
- Muse (Only when performing Starlight and Fury live)
- Nirvana
- Slayer (From Haunting The Chapel to Diabolus in Musica.)
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Van Halen
- Extreme
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Dream Theater
- Deicide
- Rise Against
- The Killers
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Thin Lizzy
- Black Sabbath (Reunion Concert)
- Simple Plan
- Taking Back Sunday
- Poison
- Rhino Bucket
- Coheed and Cambria
- Relient K
- Weezer
- Garbage
- Green Day (Until Warning which was mostly in standard along with American Idiot)
- Eskimo Joe
- Stone Sour
- The Velvet Underground
- Dashboard Confessional
- Alice in Chains
- Sum 41 (For the majority of Chuck plus "Mr. Amsterdam" from Does This Look Infected)
- CKY
- The Wildhearts
- Phil Ochs
- Circa Survive
- Blind Guardian
- Foes
- Ozzy Osbourne with Zakk Wylde
- Sonata Arctica
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