D tuning

D Tuning, also called One Step Lower, Whole Step Down, or D Standard, is an alternate tuning for guitar. Each string is lowered by a whole tone or two semitones resulting in D-G-C-F-A-D It is used mostly by heavy metal bands to achieve a heavier, deeper sound and by blues guitarists, who use it to accommodate string bending.

Here are some bands who used this tuning on a six string guitar:

• All That Remains (up until The Fall of Ideals)
• Bullet For My Valentine (on some songs from the album Scream Aim Fire, including its title track.)
• Robin Trower (on later albums)
• Paul McCartney (on "Yesterday")
• Insomnium
• Firewind (Gus G. also uses this tuning with Ozzy Osbourne)
• Death
• Dream Theater (used on the songs "Forsaken", "Never Enough" and "Rite of Passage")
• Bad Religion (on "Infected")
• Black Label Society
• Black Tide
• Blaze Bayley
• Blink-182 (on "Adam's Song")
• Brand New Sin
• CKY
• Chevelle (on Point No. 1)
• Children of Bodom
• the GazettE
• Control Denied
• Cradle of Filth
• Fall Out Boy
• Gorgoroth
• Mastodon
• Metallica (on "Sad But True", "Devil's Dance", "Sabbra Cadabra", "Whiskey in the Jar", "The Small Hours", "Crash Course in Brain Surgery" and in live performances of "Seek & Destroy" and "Jump in the Fire" since 2003)
• Motley Crue (most songs)
• Slaughter (entire catalog)
• Judas Priest (live performances during the Tim "Ripper" Owens era)
• Killing Joke
• Job for a Cowboy
• Kreator
• Sodom
• Machine Head (tuned down 60% of 1/2 step)
• Nirvana (on the songs "Lithium", "Come as You Are" and "Drain You" from the album Nevermind)
• Oceansize (used on all albums)
• Pantera (often tuned down 1/4 step)
• Pink Floyd (use it extensively on the album Animals, particularly on the songs Pigs (Three Different Ones) and Dogs
• P.O.D.
• Poison the Well (on The Opposite of December)
• Nightwish (since the Century Child album)
• Gojira
• Therapy? (on their latest albums)
• Testament (notably on First Strike Still Deadly)
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Rush (on both the live and studio versions of "Resist")
• Green Day (on the song "Paper Lanterns")
• Symphony X
• Seether (on "Country Song")
• Sister Sin
• Amorphis (later albums)
• Elliott Smith "Biggest Lie" (from the album Elliott Smith), "All Cleaned Out" (from the album New Moon )
• Venom (on some albums and live performances)
• Volbeat