D tuning
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D tuning.
D Tuning, also called One Step Lower, Whole Step Down, Full Step, 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:
- Airbourne (on "Diamond In The Rough")
- Amorphis (later albums)
- Bad Religion (on "Infected")
- Be'lakor
- Blaze Bayley
- The Beatles (on "Yesterday")
- Black Label Society
- Black Tide (on Light from Above)
- Black Stone Cherry (on the songs "You" and "Peace is Free", as well as most acoustic performances)
- Blackest Sin
- Blink-182 (on "Adam's Song")
- Brand New Sin
- Bullet For My Valentine (on some songs from the album Scream Aim Fire, including its title track.)
- Chevelle (on Point No. 1)
- Children of Bodom
- CKY
- Control Denied
- Corrosion Of Conformity
- Cradle Of Filth
- Creedence Clearwater Revival (on Fortunate Son)
- Dale Watson (singer)
- The Dead Weather
- Death
- Decrepit Birth
- Decapitated
- Dimmu Borgir (albums In Sorte Diaboli and Abrahadabra)
- Dizzy Mizz Lizzy
- Dragonland (on the album, "Holy War")
- Dream Evil
- Dream Theater (used on the songs "Endless Sacrifice", "I Walk Beside You", "Forsaken", "Never Enough", "A Rite of Passage" and "Lost Not Forgotten")
- Elliott Smith "Biggest Lie" and "Christian Brothers" (both from the album Elliott Smith), "All Cleaned Out" (from the album New Moon )
- Exodus
- Fall Out Boy
- Firewind (Gus G. also uses this tuning with Ozzy Osbourne)
- Four Year Strong
- The Fratellis (on Ole Black 'n' Blue Eyes)
- The Gaslight Anthem
- the Gazette
- Gojira
- Gorgoroth
- Anthony Green (solo work)
- Green Day (on the song "Paper Lanterns")
- Hamlet (on Sanatorio de Muñecos)
- Hinder
- Insomnium
- Tony Iommi (used when playing live)
- Job for a Cowboy
- Judas Priest (live performances during the Tim "Ripper" Owens era)
- Killing Joke
- Kiss on all songs live since 2012
- Korpiklaani
- Kreator
- Mastodon
- Megadeth (on all songs live since late 2012, Prince of Darkness & the entire Super Collider album)
- Metallica (on "The Thing That Sould Not Be", "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.)
- Mötley Crüe (most songs)
- Mobile Deathcamp
- Mumford and Sons (Timshel among others)
- Napalm Death "(The Code is Red and Smear Campaign)"
- Necrophagist
- Nightwish (since the Century Child album)
- Nirvana (on the songs "Lithium", "Come as You Are" and "Drain You" from the album Nevermind)
- Obscura
- Oceansize (used on all albums)
- Obituary
- Paul McCartney (on "Yesterday")
- Pestilence "(Consuming Impulse)"
- Pink Floyd ("Dogs" from the album Animals)
- P.O.D.
- Poison the Well (on The Opposite of December)
- Queen (on "Fat Bottomed Girls" from Jazz)
- Queens of the Stone Age (on "18 A.D.")
- Rush (on both the live and studio versions of "Resist")
- Saosin (most songs)
- Savatage
- Scorpions (live performances of the songs Bad Boys Running Wild, Tease Me Please Me, Big City Nights, No One Like You, Coast to Coast, Loving You Sunday Morning, The Zoo, Dynamite, Blackout, and Raised on Rock)
- Seether (on "Country Song")
- Shadows Fall
- Sister Sin
- Skillet (in some songs from the album, "Rise"; those songs include "Sick of It", "Not Gonna Die", Circus for a Psycho", and "Madness in Me")
- Slaughter (on debut album)
- Sodom (in some songs from "'Til Death Do Us Unite" and since "Code Red")
- Sunny Day Real Estate (exclusively on first two albums)
- Symphony X
- Tame Impala
- Testament (notably on First Strike Still Deadly)
- Theory of a Deadman - (on some songs including "Bad Girlfriend")[1]
- Therapy? (on their latest albums)
- Thrice (some songs on Vheissu, their primary tuning from The Alchemy Index onwards)
- Toxic Holocaust "Hell on Earth"
- Robin Trower (on later albums)
- Underoath (on some songs from Ø (Disambiguation))
- Vader
- The Velvet Underground
- Venom (on some albums and live performances)
- Volbeat
- Wolf Parade (on "Modern World")
- The Shrine
References
- ↑ "Backstage with Theory of a Deadman HQ(Guitar Edge.com)". Guitar Edge. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
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