D♭ tuning
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D-flat/C-sharp tuning.
D♭ tuning, also called C♯ tuning, is an alternative guitar tuning. Each string is one and one half steps lower than in standard tuning, or one half step lower than D tuning. The resulting notes can be described as D♭-G♭-B-E-A♭-D♭ or (less often) as C♯-F♯-B-E-G♯-C♯. "Extremely slack,"[1] it is very popular amongst alternative and heavy rock bands because it has a darker and lower-pitched sound compared to E standard.
Used by
- Akercocke
- A Pale Horse Named Death
- A Perfect Circle - nearly all of their songs are in this tuning.
- Alice in Chains (Them Bones and Dam That River)
- All That Remains (since Overcome)
- Architects (they also drop the low string to G♯/A♭)
- Amorphis (on Tales from the Thousand Lakes)
- Behemoth
- Between the Buried and Me
- Black Sabbath[2] - many songs from Master of Reality onward to at least Never Say Die! (because Tony Iommi had two damaged fingertips).[1] They still use this tuning on some songs from later albums.
- Bolt Thrower
- Blink-182 (on the songs "Obvious" from their self-titled album, "Time to Break Up", and for live performances of "Adam's Song")
- Cannibal Corpse ("Mummified in Barbed Wire", "Disfigured", "Absolute Hatred", "Eaten from Inside", and "Orgasm Through Torture")
- Chevelle (on three songs from Wonder What's Next: "Comfortable Liar", "The Red", and "Don't Fake This")
- Children of Bodom (on their first album Something Wild and on 2 songs from their latest album I Worship Chaos)
- Coldplay (on their song 'God Put a Smile Upon Your Face')
- Comeback Kid[3]
- Creed (on 4 songs from Full Circle, although most of the rest of the album has the low string dropped to B and, on one song, G♯/A♭)
- Dark Tranquillity
- Decapitated
- Down
- Dying Fetus
- Dream Theater (on the songs, "Along for the Ride", "Another Day", "New Millennium", "Take the Time", "Vacant", "Under a Glass Moon", and "You Not Me")
- El Caco
- Epica (on the songs, "the Last Crusade", "Blank Infinity", and "Another Me in Lack'ech", from the Consign to Oblivion album. All the other songs from the album are in C tuning.)
- Eyehategod
- Godflesh (prior to Us and Them)
- Gorguts
- Hate Eternal
- Iced Earth (on most songs)
- I the Mighty
- Judas Priest (on "Jugulator", "Blood Stained", "Death Row", "Decapitate", and "Abductors")
- Kalmah
- Las Cruces
- Letlive
- Limp Bizkit
- Linkin Park
- Lykathea Aflame
- Machine Head (tuned up 40 cents sharp)
- Mark Tremonti (on "So You're Afraid" and "Doesn't Matter" from All I Was)
- Metallica (on "Bad Seed" from ReLoad, and "The More I See" from Garage Inc.)
- Monte Pittman[4]
- My Dying Bride (on all songs except "A Doomed Lover", "One of Beauty's Daughter's", and "The Blue Lotus", which are all dropped to Drop B.)
- Nirvana (On certain recordings of Old Age)
- Omnium Gatherum
- Orange Goblin
- Pantera on The Great Southern Trendkill, War Nerve, Drag the Waters, 13 Steps to Nowhere, and Floods from The Great Southern Trendkill
- Rains
- Reverend Bizarre
- Sent By Ravens
- Sinergy (on the album Beware the Heavens)
- Skillet (on some songs from the albums, Hey You, I Love Your Soul and Collide)
- Slayer (on the albums Diabolus in Musica and God Hates Us All)
- Sleater-Kinney
- Slipknot (on "Snuff" and "Before I Forget")
- Sodom (in several songs from "'Til Death Do Us Unite")
- Stone Sour
- Stormlord
- Suffocation
- Superjoint Ritual
- Testament (since Low)
- Therion (on most songs in every album from 1994-present and their death metal demos)
- Truckfighters
- Venom (some albums)
- Woods of Ypres
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hunter, Dave and F Gibbons, Billy (2010). Star Guitars: 101 Guitars That Rocked the World,[page needed]. ISBN 978-0-7603-3821-6.
- ↑ Wilkinson, Paul (2007). Rat Salad: Black Sabbath, The Classic Years, 1969-1975. ISBN 978-0-312-36723-7.
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