D♭ 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.
D-flat/C-sharp tuning.
Used by
- A Pale Horse Named Death
- A Perfect Circle - nearly all of their songs are in this tuning.
- Abbath (album only; live performances are on D tuning)
- Akercocke
- Al's Band (on "My Bologna" and "Perform This Way")
- All That Remains (since Overcome and live performances since 2007)
- The Almighty
- Amorphis (on Tales from the Thousand Lakes)
- An Isle Ate Her
- Anata
- Architects (they also drop the low string to G♯/A♭)
- Attila (they also drop the low string to B or G♯/A♭)
- Ava Inferi
- Before the Dawn (on the song "The Black" from 4:17 am)
- Behemoth
- Between the Buried and Me - nearly all of their songs are in this tuning.
- Black Sabbath[2] - many songs from Master of Reality onward to at least Sabotage (because Tony Iommi had two damaged fingertips).[1] They still use this tuning on some songs from later albums and on live performances of Dirty Women since 1998.
- Black Stone Cherry (On the song "Me and Mary Jane")
- Blink-182 (on the songs "Obvious" from their self-titled album, "Time to Break Up", and for live performances of "Adam's Song")
- Bolt Thrower
- Brutal Truth
- Candlemass
- 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 some songs from I Worship Chaos and Hexed)
- Coalesce
- 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
- The Devil and the Almighty Blues
- Dimension Zero (on their Penetrations from the Lost World EP)
- Down
- Dying Fetus
- Dream Theater (on the songs, "Along for the Ride", "New Millennium", "Vacant", 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
- Exhorder (on The Law)
- Falconer (on the albums, Northwind and Among Beggars and Thieves)
- God Forbid (on some songs from Gone Forever)
- Godflesh (Used from Slavestate up to Songs of Love and Hate)
- Gorgoroth
- Gorguts (first two albums)
- The Grass Roots (on the song "Let's Live for Today")
- Guns N' Roses (on "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Heartbreak Hotel", and "I Don't Care About You")
- Hate Eternal
- Isis
- I the Mighty
- John Prine (on most songs since 1998 until his death)
- Judas Priest (on "Jugulator", "Blood Stained", "Death Row", "Decapitate", and "Abductors")
- Kalmah (starting from For the Revolution and live performances since 2008)
- King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (used on I'm In Your Mind Fuzz, Polygondwanaland, and Infest the Rats' Nest)
- Kyuss (on Sons of Kyuss EP)
- Las Cruces
- Legion of the Damned
- Limp Bizkit (nearly every song)
- Machine Head (on some songs, including their cover of "Battery") (tuned 40 cents sharp)
- Mark Tremonti (on "So You're Afraid" and "Doesn't Matter" from All I Was, as well as "Radical Change" and "Flying Monkeys" from Cauterize, and "Catching Fire" and the title track from Dust)
- Microwave (band) (on "Something right" from "Stovall")
- Metallica (on "Bad Seed" from ReLoad, "The More I See" from Garage Inc., and live performances of "The Thing That Should Not Be")
- Monte Pittman[4]
- My Dying Bride (on most songs)
- Neil Perry
- Nirvana (On certain recordings of Old Age)
- Omnium Gatherum
- Orange Goblin
- Pantera (Most of the album "The Great Southern Trendkill")
- Pianos Become the Teeth
- Portraits of Past
- Prayer for Cleansing (live performances and The Tragedy EP)
- Queens of the Stone Age (early live performances)
- Rains
- Reverend Bizarre
- Rivers of Nihil (along with 7-string G♯/A♭ and drop F♯/G♭ tuning)
- Rotting Christ
- Scorpions (live performances of "Bad Boys Running Wild", "Coming Home", "Can't Get Enough" since 2017, on "Send Me An Angel (2016 Acoustic Version)")
- Sent By Ravens
- Sentenced (on albums North from Here, The Trooper, and Amok; they switched to D tuning and drop C tuning for subsequent albums)
- Shotmaker
- Sinergy (on the album Beware the Heavens)
- Skillet (on some songs from the albums, Hey You, I Love Your Soul and Collide)
- Slash (on "Crucify the Dead")
- Slayer (on the song "Gemini" from Undisputed Attitude, the albums Diabolus in Musica (except "Perversions Of Pain", bonus track "Unguarded Instinct", and "Scrum"), God Hates Us All (Except "Payback", "Here Comes The Pain"), and the songs "Black Serenade" and "Cult" from Christ Illusion)
- Sleater-Kinney
- Slipknot (on "Snuff")
- Sodom (in several songs from "'Til Death Do Us Unite" and "M-16")
- Spiritual Beggars
- Stone Sour
- Stormlord
- Suffocation (on Pierced from Within)
- Superjoint Ritual
- Testament (since Low)
- Therion (on most songs in every album from 1994–present and their death metal demos)
- Truckfighters
- Torture Squad (on the albums "The Unholy Spell" and "Pandemonium")
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra
- Vader (2002-present)
- Venom
- Winds of Plague (on the album Resistance; previous albums used standard E tuning and drop D tuning)
- Within Temptation (on most songs from the album Mother Earth and some songs from the albums, the Heart of Everything and the Unforgiving)
- Woods of Ypres
Sources
- Hunter, Dave and F Gibbons, Billy (2010). Star Guitars: 101 Guitars That Rocked the World, . ISBN 978-0-7603-3821-6.
- Wilkinson, Paul (2007). Rat Salad: Black Sabbath, The Classic Years, 1969-1975. ISBN 978-0-312-36723-7.
- Bean, Perry. "Rig Rundown - Comeback Kid". Premier Guitar. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- Dirks, Rebecca. "Rig Rundown - Madonna's Monte Pittman". Premier Guitar. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
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