B tuning

Baritone tuning.

B Tuning or B Standard Tuning is the standard tuning for a seven string guitar, where the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-G-B-E. B tuning can also be achieved on a six string guitar, when the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-F♯-B, known then as Baritone Tuning. This tuning is popular among several different types of metal bands.

The following is a list of musical groups who use this tuning on a typical six-string guitar:

• Aborted
• The Absence
• Aeon (7 string guitars)
• Aghora (7 string guitars) (on the album Aghora (album))
• Allegaeon (7 string guitars)
• All Shall Perish
• Amon Amarth (on most albums)
• Anacrusis
• Anal Cunt
• Anathema (This tuning and Drop A were used in on all albums until We're Here Because We're Here, where some songs are in C tuning, which became the band's primary tuning along with drop B-flat.)
• Angel Vivaldi (7 string guitars)
• Animals as Leaders (On most of their first album, 7-string guitars)
• Arch Enemy (albums: Black Earth, Stigmata and Burning Bridges)
• Arcturus on the album The Sham Mirrors
• At the Gates
• Attack Attack! on the album self-titled Album
• Audioslave
• Augury
• Avatar (from Black Waltz onwards)
• Bal-Sagoth
• Biomechanical (7 string guitars) on the album Cannibalised
• Black Label Society On "13 Years of Grief" from the album Stronger Than Death
• Bleed From Within
• Bloodbath
• Blood Has Been Shed
• Blood Red Throne on the album Altered Genesis
• Bongzilla
• Brutart
• Cannibal Corpse (7 string guitars)
• Carpathian
• Carach Angren
• Cavalera Conspiracy (on the album Blunt Force Trauma and some songs on the album Inflikted)
• Carajo (B flat tuning)
• Carcass
• Cathedral on the albums Forest of Equilibrium, The Ethereal Mirror, Statik Majik, and The Garden of Unearthly Delights (album)
• Cephalic Carnage
• Coal Chamber (BEADGB, although some songs are dropped to A)
• Coheed and Cambria (Key Entity Extraction II: Hollywood the Cracked, Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant)
• Crowbar
• Cryptopsy
• Dave Matthews Band (On "You Never Know")
• Despised Icon
• Devourment
• Dismember
• Divine Heresy (7 string guitars)
• DragonForce (7 string guitars)
• Dream Theater (7 string guitars) (used on many songs, including "Lie", "Caught in a Web" and "The Mirror" from Awake; the 1994 version of "To Live Forever"; "A Change of Seasons"; "Just Let Me Breathe" from Falling into Infinity; "Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity" from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, and most songs from the Twelve-step Suite)
• Edenbridge (on their first five albums)
• Edge Of Sanity
• Electric Wizard on the album Dopethrone
• Eluveitie (on most songs)
• Emperor on the album Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
• Entombed (on their album Left Hand Path)
• Epica on all albums except the Phantom Agony (D tuning) and Consign to Oblivion (C tuning (D-flat tuning on the songs, "the Last Crusade", "Blank Infinity", and "Another Me in Lack'ech"))
• Exhumed
• Fallujah (7 string guitars)
• Fear Factory (used B on a six-string prior to Dino Cazares' 1995 switch to Ibanez, from whom he began 7-string guitars.)
• Five Finger Death Punch
• Fleshgod Apocalypse
• Godflesh (on the Streetcleaner album, and on a 7-string on Us and Them and Hymns)
• Grave
• Graveworm
• Hunting Humans
• Hypocrisy (On all albums up until Virus, from which they use A# Standard and on all albums after)
• I Killed The Prom Queen
• Illdisposed (All albums up until Burn Me Wicked)
• Iron Monkey
• Jungle Rot
• Kataklysm
• Kingdom of Sorrow
• King's X (on the album Black Like Sunday)^[1]
• Kenn Nardi
• Lacuna Coil (7 string guitars)
• Lead Belly was rumored to use this tuning in a 12-string variation.
• Linkin Park (on the song "Runaway" from 2003 concerts, but it was originally recorded on standard tuned 7-string guitars.)
• Massacre (on Back from Beyond)
• Mnemic
• The Monolith Deathcult
• MyChildren MyBride
• Negură Bunget (7 string guitars)
• Nekrogoblikon (7 string guitars)
• Novembre
• Oomph!
• Otto Mann
• Pelican
• Pomegranate Tiger (7 string guitars)
• Pro-Pain
• Profiles in Terror (7 string guitar and 6 guitar B tuned)
• Raintime (7 string guitars)
• Satariel (7 string guitars)
• Scar Symmetry (7 string guitars, on Symmetric in Design and Pitch Black Progress; have since switched to Drop A tuning)
• Seventh Void
• Sepultura (from Roots onward)
• Skinless
• Shadow Over Innsmouth
• Slipknot
• Soilwork
• Soulfly
• Spawn of Possession (6 & 7 string guitars; Jonas Bryssling plays a 6 string, while Jonas Karlsson and Christian Muenzner's parts are written for 7 strings)
• Spineshank
• Stencher
• Steve Vai (7 string guitars)
• Sun Caged (7 string guitars)
• Textures (7 string guitars)
• Theory of a Deadman (on their song "No Surprise" and recent live performances of "Bad Girlfriend")
• The Project Hate MCMXCIX
• The Gazette
• Trivium (7 string guitars, on some songs from The Crusade and all songs on Shogun)
• Type O Negative
• Underoath (on some songs from Ø (Disambiguation))
• Unearth (7 string guitars)
• Universum
• Unleashed
• Vehemence
• Warning
• Whitechapel (7 string guitars, only on a few songs)
• Winterfylleth (also use Drop A)
• Within Temptation (lead guitarist Ruud Jolie uses 7 string guitars, while Robert Westerholt downtunes a six-string to B)
• Yanomamo

See also

• List of guitar tunings
• Guitar tuning
• Dropped A

References