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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 sludge
Sludge metal

Sludge metal is a form of heavy metal music that fuses doom metal and hardcore punk. Sludge metal is typically aggressive and abrasive; often featuring shouted vocals, heavily distortion instruments and sharply contrasting tempos....
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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 bands.








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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 sludge
Sludge metal

Sludge metal is a form of heavy metal music that fuses doom metal and hardcore punk. Sludge metal is typically aggressive and abrasive; often featuring shouted vocals, heavily distortion instruments and sharply contrasting tempos....
/metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 bands.

Bands


Six-String Version

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

  • The Absence
    The Absence

    The Absence is an United States melodic death metal band from Tampa, Florida. Their style has also been described as aggressive thrash metal with Scandinavian metal influences....
  • Abysmal Dawn
    Abysmal Dawn

    Abysmal Dawn is an United States blackened death metal band from Los Angeles, California. Their latest album, Programmed To Consume, was released in 2008....
  • Amon Amarth
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  • Arch Enemy (Albums Black Earth, Stigmata
    Stigmata (album)

    Stigmata is the second album by Sweden melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. The album was Arch Enemy's first to see worldwide release, in Europe and North America on Century Media Records, and in Japan again on Toy's Factory records....
     and Burning Bridges)
  • At The Gates
    At the Gates

    At the Gates are a Sweden melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, progenitor of the Melodic_death_metal#Gothenburg_sound of Death_metal. Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007....
  • Blood Red Throne (Album "Altered Genesis")
  • Bolt Thrower
  • Bring me the horizon
    Bring Me the Horizon

    Bring Me The Horizon are an English deathcore band from Sheffield, Yorkshire. The band formed in the year 2004 from members of other bands within their local area....
  • Bull Dyke Rodeo
  • Carcass
    Carcass (band)

    Carcass are an English grindcore / death metal band from Liverpool. They formed in 1985 and disbanded a decade later. A reunion was enacted in 2008 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen....
  • Cathedral
    Cathedral

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  • Chevelle
    Chevelle

    Chevelle is an American hard rock band that formed in 1995 in Grayslake, Illinois, Illinois. The band originally comprised three brothers: Pete Loeffler , Sam Loeffler , and Joe Loeffler ....
     (On several songs from This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
    This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)

    This Type of Thinking is the third studio album and second major label release by Chevelle. Peaking at #8, it charted higher on the Billboard 200 than its predecessor, Wonder What's Next; however, the album did not sell as well....
     and almost all songs on Vena Sera)
  • Crowbar
  • Cryptopsy
    Cryptopsy

    Cryptopsy is a death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada that was formed in 1988....
  • Dave Matthews Band
    Dave Matthews Band

    Dave Matthews Band is an United States rock music band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, Virginia in 1991. Founding members include singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bass guitar Stefan Lessard, violinist Boyd Tinsley, and drum kit Carter Beauford....
     (Most of the Everyday
    Everyday (Dave Matthews Band album)

    Everyday is the fourth studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on February 27, 2001....
     album.)
  • Demon Hunter
    Demon Hunter

    Demon Hunter is a metalcore band from Seattle, Washington, started by brothers Don Clark and Ryan Clark . The band members' Christianity faith forms a strong characteristic of Demon Hunter and is expressed throughout many of their songs....
  • Despised Icon
    Despised Icon

    Despised Icon is a deathcore band from Montreal, Quebec. The band was formed by members of Neuraxis, In Dying Days and Heaven's Cry, in January 2002....
  • Devourment
    Devourment

    Devourment is a brutal death metal band from Dallas, Texas. Formed in 1995, the band has split up and reformed three times and none of the original members remain....
  • el gato
  • Electric Wizard
    Electric Wizard

    Electric Wizard are a doom metal band from Dorset, England that formed in 1993. The band have since recorded six albums, two of which are now considered to be landmarks of their genre: Come My Fanatics... and Dopethrone....
  • Epica
    EPICA

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  • Evanescence
    Evanescence

    Evanescence is an American rock music band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody.After recording two private Extended play and a demo CD named Origin , with the help of Bigwig Enterprises in 2000, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen , on Wind-up Records in 2003...
  • Hypocrisy
    Hypocrisy (band)

    Hypocrisy is a death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter T?gtgren.Musically, the band's style has drifted from a traditional death metal sound on their early albums, to a more melodic death metal sound....
  • I Killed The Prom Queen
    I Killed the Prom Queen

    I Killed the Prom Queen was an Australian hardcore/metalcore band formed in 2003 anddisbanded in 2007....
  • Iron Monkey
    Iron Monkey

    Iron Monkey can refer to:*Iron Monkey *Iron Monkey *Iron Monkey ...
  • Kataklysm
    Kataklysm

    Kataklysm is a Canada death metal band. They call their musical style "northern hyperblast" after an advertisement in M.E.A.T. magazine describing another band, Fear Factory, as "hyperblast"....
  • Linkin Park
    Linkin Park

    Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
     used BEADGB tuning on "With You" and "Runaway" from 2003 concerts.
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  • Mercenary
    Mercenary

    A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict, who is not a national or a party to the conflict, and is "motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or p...
  • Mudvayne
    Mudvayne

    Mudvayne is an American Heavy metal music band formed in Peoria, Illinois, Illinois in 1996. Members are lead singer Chad Gray, guitarist Greg Tribbett, bassist Ryan Martinie and drummer Matthew McDonough....
  • MyChildren MyBride
    Mychildren Mybride

    Mychildren Mybride is a Christian music metalcore band originating from Madison, Alabama. They are signed to Solid State Records after being noticed by extensive constant touring, including various dates in European countries....
  • Nickleback
  • Noothgrush
  • Parkway Drive
  • Pro-Pain
    Pro-Pain

    Pro-Pain is a New York-based Hardcore punk / Heavy Metal music band formed in 1992 by vocalist and bassist Gary Meskil and drummer Dan Richardson....
  • The Project Hate MCMXCIX
    The Project Hate MCMXCIX

    The Project Hate MCMXCIX is a Sweden death metal band. It was formed in 1998 and is one of the few death metal bands with a female singer....
  • 3D House Of Beef
    3d house of beef

    3d House Of Beef is a band originally from Seattle, Washington. They released 2 cassette EPs , a remix EP , 2 full length CD albums , as well as appearing on several international music compilations....
  • Type O Negative
    Type O Negative

    Type O Negative is a Heavy metal music band from Brooklyn, New York City. Although commonly viewed as a gothic metal band, Type O has also incorporated elements of doom metal, thrash metal, blues, punk rock/hardcore punk, alternative rock and, progressive rock into their work, and often describe their sound as Black Sabbath-meets-The Beatles,...
  • Slipknot
    Slipknot

    Slipknot may refer to:* Slip knot, a class of knot made in such a way as to slide* Slipknot , a heavy metal music band from Des Moines, Iowa, USA...
  • Soilwork
    Soilwork

    Soilwork is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork ....
  • Soulfly
    Soulfly

    Soulfly is a Heavy metal music band formed in 1997 in Arizona. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura guitarist and frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the influential Brazilian group in 1997....
  • Torture Division


Seven-String Version

Here are some bands who used this tuning on a seven string guitar:
  • Dream Theater
    Dream Theater

    Dream Theater is an United States progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Myung, John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, before they dropped out to support the band....
     - John Petrucci
    John Petrucci

    'John Peter Petrucci' is an United States guitarist best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. He has Record producer all Dream Theater albums since their 1999 release, Metropolis Pt....
  • Morbid Angel
    Morbid Angel

    Morbid Angel is an United States death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. They, along with Death , Possessed , Obituary , Massacre , Deicide , Cannibal Corpse, and a handful of others were crucial in the development of the death metal genre and its standards, separating it from the thrash metal genre completely....
  • Hypocrisy
    Hypocrisy (band)

    Hypocrisy is a death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter T?gtgren.Musically, the band's style has drifted from a traditional death metal sound on their early albums, to a more melodic death metal sound....
  • Steve Vai
    Steve Vai

    Steven "Steve" Siro Vai is an United States instrumental rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, record producer, and actor. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai would also record and tour in Zappa's backing band starting in 1980....
  • Fear Factory
    Fear Factory

    Fear Factory is an American heavy metal music band. The band formed in 1989 and have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes....
  • In This Moment
    In This Moment

    In This Moment is an United States melodic metalcore Band formed in 2005. They have released two albums to date, both on Century Media Records....
  • Linkin Park
    Linkin Park

    Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
     (On the songs "With You" & "Runaway")
  • Lacuna Coil
    Lacuna Coil

    Lacuna Coil is an Italy gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of Gothic aesthetics imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlaid with prominent key...
     (On the album Karmacode)
  • Zero Hour
    Zero Hour (band)

    Zero Hour is a progressive metal band formed by twin brothers Jasun Tipton and Troy Tipton in Pleasanton, California in 1993.New vocalist Chris Salinas joined the band for their 2006 album Specs of Pictures Burnt Beyond, replacing Fred Marshall....
  • Trivium
    Trivium (band)

    Trivium is an American Heavy metal music band formed in 2000 in Orlando, Florida. The band has released Trivium discography, eleven singles, and twelve music videos....
  • All Shall Perish
    All Shall Perish

    All Shall Perish is a deathcore quintet from Oakland, California formed in 2002, which combines various genres, including death metal, deathgrind, metalcore, and sludge metal....
  • Unearth
    Unearth

    Unearth is an American metalcore band from Winthrop, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, formed in 1998. They are also known for playing seven-stringed guitars, while the bass player plays a five-stringed bass....
  • Epica
    EPICA

    The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica is a multinational European project for deep ice core drilling in Antarctica. Its main objective is to obtain full documentation of the climatic and atmospheric record archived in Antarctic ice by drilling and analyzing two ice cores and comparing these with their Greenland counterparts ....
  • Cannibal Corpse
    Cannibal Corpse

    Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band, formed in Buffalo, New York in 1988. The band has released eleven studio albums, one boxed set, and one live album....
  • Deftones
    Deftones

    Deftones is an American rock music musical ensemble from Sacramento, California formed in 1988, consisting of Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , and Abe Cunningham ....
  • Rompeprop


See also

  • List of guitar tunings
    List of guitar tunings

    Here is a comprehensive list of ways to tune a guitar:...
  • Guitar tuning
    Guitar tuning

    Guitar tunings are differing pitch arrangements of open strings used for the guitar. Many arrangements are possible, some of the most popular are detailed below....
  • Dropped B