This article contains a list of guitar tunings that supplements the article guitar tunings. In particular, this list contains more examples of open and regular tunings, which are discussed in the article on guitar tunings. In addition, this list also notes dropped tunings.
A FuniChar D-616 guitar with a Drop D tuning. It has an unusual additional fretboard that extends onto the headstock. Most guitarists obtain a Drop D tuning by detuning the low E string a tone down.
This open C tuning is used by William Ackerman for his "Townsend Shuffle" and by John Fahey for his tribute to Mississippi John Hurt. This tuning is also commonly used by John Butler on his 12-string guitar.[1] This tuning is used on most work by Devin Townsend in his solo work as well as his work with Strapping Young Lad. When playing on a 7-string guitar, he would have a low G as the lowest string to complete the fifth. David Wilcox also recorded his most famous songs, "Eye of the Hurricane" and "Rusty Old American Dream", both from How Did You Find Me Here, in this tuning, as well as "New World", "Show the Way", "Hold It Up to the Light", and his cover of "It's the Same Old Song" from Big Horizon, and "Mango" from East Asheville Hardware.
This open-C tuning gives the initial harmonic series when a C-string is struck.[4] The C-C-G-C-E-G tuning uses the harmonic sequence (overtones) of the note C. When an open-note C-string is struck, its harmonic sequence begins with the notes (C,C,G,C,E,G,B♭,C).[3][4] This overtone-series tuning was modified by Mick Ralphs, who used a high C rather than the high G for "Can't Get Enough" on Bad Company. Ralphs said, "It needs the open C to have that ring," and "it never really sounds right in standard tuning".[5]
This tuning is the same as Open D but tuned a half-step down. It is used by Alice In Chains on the songs "Over Now", "Nothin' Song", and "Shame in You"; by Guns N' Roses on the song "Bad Obsession"; and by Switchfoot on the song "Daisy".
Alternatively: C-G-D-G-B-D (used by Big Wreck on multiple songs, most notably "Inhale" and "Mistake"—They downtune it a half step[11]—and by David Wilcox on "It's Almost Time", "Just a Vehicle", "Distant Water", "Golden Day", and his covers of "The Kid" and "Missing You ." Also used by Andrew Peterson on his song "Faith to be Strong" and by Macseal on multiple songs.)
Dobro Open G: G-B-D-G-B-D (occasionally adopted for ordinary guitar, but requires lighter fifth and sixth strings).
The following open-tunings use a minor third, and give a minor chord with open strings. To avoid the relatively cumbersome designation "open D minor", "open C minor", such tunings are sometimes called "cross-note tunings". The term also expresses the fact that, compared to Major chord open tunings, by fretting the lowered string at the first fret, it is possible to produce a major chord very easily.[14]
Cross-note D: D-A-D-F-A-D (used by John Fahey on the song "Red Pony")
Alternative: D-A-D-A-D-F (used by William Ackerman on "Barbara's Song")
Cross-note E: E-B-E-G-B-E (used by ZZ Top on the song "Just Got Paid" and by Joey Eppard on the 3 song "Bramfatura")
Cross-note F: F-A♭-C-F-C-F (extremely rare)
Alternative: F-C-F-A♭-C-F (used by Albert Collins;[18] requires light gauges)
Cross-note G: D-G-D-G-B♭-D
Sitar A tuning (listen)
Alternative Cross A: E-A-E-A-E-A. «Sitar A» - an alternative low guitar system. Recalls the sound of Indian sitar.
Modaledit
D modal tuning.
In modal tunings, the strings are tuned to form a chord which is not definitively minor or major. These tunings may facilitate very easy chords and unique sounds when the open strings are used as drones. Often these tunings form a suspended chord on the open strings. A well known user of modal tunings is Sonic Youth.
Bsus4: B-F♯-B-E-F♯-B (DADGAD but three notes (1-1/2 steps) lower, a main tuning of Sevendust, who have used it since Animosity)
Badd9: B-F♯-C♯-F♯-B-D♯, Used by Devin Townsend on "Bastard", a minor variation is used by Alter Bridge on the song "This Side of Fate" tuned B-F#-C#-F#-B-D
Csus2: C-G-C-G-C-D (first five strings equivalent to Double-C tuning for the banjo, believed to have been used by David Wilcox on "Let Them In" from Home Again (for the First Time), though even he isn't entirely sure)
Csus4+9: C-G-C-F-C-D (used by Martin Simpson in "We Are All Heroes", and by David Wilcox on "Come Away to Sea" from The Nightshift Watchman with the high string raised to E)
Low C: C-G-D-G-A-D (used by David Wilcox on "High Hill", "Covert War", "Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song", "Break in the Cup", "Show Me the Key", "Silent Prayer", and "Leaving You")
Dsus2: D-A-D-E-A-D (used by David Wilcox on "How Did You Find Me Here")
Dsus4: D-A-D-G-A-D (devised by British guitarist Davey Graham[21] in the late 1950s, associated with French acoustic guitarist Pierre Bensusan,[22] and used by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin for a number of songs including "Kashmir" and "Black Mountain Side"; also used by David Wilcox on multiple songs, occasionally tuning half a step down)
Esus2: E-B-E-F♯-B-E (used by My Bloody Valentine in "Only Shallow" and by John Mayer in "Something's Missing," "Wherever You Go," "Heart So Heavy," and "In Your Atmosphere").
Esus4: E-B-E-A-B-E, E-A-B-E-B-E (the latter used by Jars of Clay on their debut album Jars of Clay)
E7sus4: E-A-D-E-B-E (used by Ed Sheeran in "Tenerife Sea.")
EEEEBE a.k.a. "Bruce Palmer Modal Tuning," as named and used by Stephen Stills in "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes where Stills uses this tuning while the other guitar is in standard tuning.[23])
A compact tuning that fits within one octave and covers the chromatic scale between open strings and the first fret.
Minor thirdsedit
C-D♯-F♯-A-C-D♯
In the minor-thirds tuning, every interval between successive strings is a minor third. In the minor-thirds tuning beginning with C, the open strings contain the notes (C, D♯, F♯) of the diminished C chord.[28]
Major-thirds tuning is a regular tuning in which the musical intervals between successive strings are each major thirds.[29][30][31] Unlike all-fourths and all-fifths tuning, major-thirds tuning repeats its octave after three strings, which again simplifies the learning of chords and improvisation.[32]
Neighboring the standard tuning is the major-thirds tuning that has the open strings
This tuning is like that of the lowest four strings in standard tuning.[34][35] Jazz musician Stanley Jordan plays guitar in all-fourths tuning; he has stated that all-fourths tuning "simplifies the fingerboard, making it logical".[36]
All-fifths tuning is a tuning in intervals of perfect fifths like that of a mandolin, cello or violin; other names include "perfect fifths" and "fifths".[38] It has a wide range, thus it requires an appropriate range of string gauges. A high b' string has been recently developed by Octave4Plus gauged at .006 which is considerable thinner than most guitar strings on the market, but under low tension to prevent breakage.
Ostrich tuning is a tuning where all strings are tuned to the same note over two or three octaves,[39] creating an intense, choruseddrone and interesting fingering potential.
Drop tunings lower the sixth string, dropping the lowest E string of the standard tuning. Some drop tunings also lower the fifth string (the A-note in standard-tuning). A drop one tuning lowers the pitch by one full step.
Some lower tunings may call for a baritone guitar to more easily maintain high string tension and a rich tone. Others can be achieved using a capo and/or a partial capo.
Drop E – E-B-e-A-C♯-F♯ / E-B-e-A-D♭-G♭/ Five full steps down from Drop D, or one full step up from Drop D1. Another Variation can be mixed with a Drop A as follows: E-A-e-a-D-G-B-e modeled on an 8 string or E-A-e-a-D-F#-B/E-A-e-a-D-Gb-B on a seven-string guitar, Used by Starset on Horizons, Loathe (E-A-e-a-D-F♯/G♭), and Humanity's Last Breath (E-B-e-A-G♯/A♭-a).
Drop D♯/Drop E♭ – D♯-A♯-d♯-G♯-C-F / E♭-B♭-e♭-A♭-C-F Five and one half steps down from Drop D, or one half step up from Drop D1. This can also be a Drop D# standard octave variant tuning modeled on an 8 string D#-G#-d#-g#-C#-F#-A#-d#. Gravemind uses an altered version of Drop D# (which is a 6-string Drop A# with the low D#) on their album Conduit. Meshuggah also used Drop D# for some of their songs (e.g.: "Stengah," "Shed").
Drop D1 – D-A-d-G-B-E Six full steps (one octave) down from Drop D. 8 string example; D-A-d-a-d-G-B-E. Black Tongue uses this tuning. Meshuggah also used it for "Obsidian" and "This Spiteful Snake".
Drop C♯1/Drop D♭1 – C♯-G♯-c♯-F♯-A♯-D♯ / D♭-A♭-D♭-G♭-B♭-E♭ Six full steps (one octave) down from Drop C♯/Drop D♭, Used by Loathe (C#-A-E-a-D-F♯/G♭)
Drop C1 – C-G-c-F-A-D Six full steps (one octave) down from Drop C.
Drop C♯/Drop D♭ in standard variation – C♯-A-D-G-B-E Standard tuning but with the 6th string lowered one and a half steps. Used by Sevendust tuned one and a half-step down (which goes as: A#-F#-B-E-G#-C#) on some songs from Home through Alpha.
Drop C in standard variation – C-A-D-G-B-E Standard tuning but with the 6th string lowered two whole steps. Used by Mark Tremonti on the song "My Champion" (tuned down a half-step; Myles is in Open F# tuning) as well as Sevendust on the song "Mountain" tuned down one and a half steps. (which goes A-F#-B-E-G#-C#) Also used by John Mayer on the song "Neon", and by Chino Moreno of Deftones on some songs such as "Swerve City" , "Leathers" and "Hearts/Wires", tuned down a full step (A#-G-C-F-A-D), This variation was also used by Periphery on "Totla Mad" from their Self-Titled album and "Frak the Gods" on "Icarus EP".
Drop B-E – B-E-D-G-b-e Standard tuning with the 6th and 5th string lowered two and a half steps down. Used by Tool in the songs "Parabol" and "Parabola".
Drop A in standard variation – A-a-D-G-B-E: The 6th string is dropped to A while the other strings retain their standard tuning. Used by Helmet on "Biscuits for Smut", Foo Fighters on "Stacked Actors", Opeth on the song "Sorceress", and the Melvins on "Boris". Used by Every Time I Die on the songs "Indian Giver", "Fear and Trembling" and "Nothing Visible; Ocean Empty". A 7-string version of this tuning is used by Muse on their song "Citizen Erased", tuned A-a-D-d-G-B-E, as well as on Supremacy, which features a standard six-string guitar. Sevendust uses this tuning a half-step down on "Home". Periphery uses this tuning, but tuned 1 step down on "Reptile", The band Architects also use this tuning, but tuned one and a half step down, since their album Lost Forever // Lost Together released in 2014 and Wage War tuned 2 steps down on several songs[56]
Drop A in D standard variation – A-G-C-F-a-D: Used by Mastodon on most of their first album (Remission) and on some songs on other albums. Also utilized by Nothing More and Periphery (primarily on more recent material) Also used on occasion by Black Label Society, who previously tuned it a half-step up, which Alter Bridge also utilizes on some of their songs such as "Broken Wings", "Come to Life", "I Know it Hurts", "Still Remains", "Breath Again", and "All Hope is Gone." Creed, Architects, all use this tuning tuned a half-step down on their songs "Bread of Shame", "Early Grave" respectively. Danish industrial metal band Raunchy used this tuning tuned one and a half-step down (F#-E-A-D-f#-B) on the song "Dim the Lights and Run" from the album A Discord Electric.
Drop G in C standard variation – G-F-A#-D#-g-C: Used by Bring Me the Horizon on a few songs from their album Suicide Season, "Blacklist" from There Is A Hell and "heavy metal" from amo,[57]Wage War also utilize this tuning on several songs on their first three albums, such as "The River" and "Spineless" off their album Blueprints.
Shiftededit
These tunings are derived by systematic increases or decreases to standard tuning.
Lowered (standard)edit
D tuning.
Derived from standard EADGBE, all the strings are tuned lower by the same interval, thus providing the same chord positions transposed to a lower key. Lower tunings are popular among rock and heavy metal bands. The reason for tuning down below standard pitch is usually either to accommodate a singer's vocal range or to get a deeper/heavier sound.[58]
G♯/A♭ tuning – G♯-C♯-F♯-B-D♯-G♯ / A♭-D♭-G♭-B-E♭-A♭ Four full steps down from standard tuning. Utilized by Cannibal Corpse on some songs. Used by death/doom metal band Encoffination. Also used by Mark Tremonti on the song "In the Deep" (Myles Kennedy uses a 6-string guitar tuned to Drop Db in the song).
G tuning – G-C-F-A♯-D-G / G-C-F-B♭-D-G Four and a half steps down from standard tuning. Used by the doom metal band Warhorse and the brutal death metal band Mortician and the sludge metal project Foreigns.
F♯/G♭ tuning – F♯-B-E-A-C♯-F♯ / G♭-B-E-A-D♭-G♭ Five full steps from standard tuning. Used by the death metal band Disfiguring the Goddess.
F tuning – F-A♯-D♯-G♯-C-F / F-B♭-E♭-A♭-C-F Five and a half steps down from standard tuning. Used by the deathgrind band Maruta, the instrumental doom metal band Bongripper, and the progressive metal band Meshuggah (however the band uses 8-string guitars).
Octave tuning – E-A-D-G-B-E Six full steps (one octave) down from standard tuning. The Low E has the same fundamental frequency as a bass guitar, essentially the same standard tuning as a bass guitar but with a high B and E added to mimic a regular guitar. This tuning is used on the Fender Bass VI and similar instruments. Notably used by John Lennon and George Harrison with the Beatles, Robert Smith of the Cure, Jack Bruce of Cream, and Deftones bassist Sergio Vega on their album Gore. In his early days with Ronnie Hawkins, future Band bassist Rick Danko was also seen with a Fender Bass VI. This is the tuning Earth used on their seminal drone doom album, Earth 2. Also used in some doom metal and sludge metal bands such as Wetlands and Thou.
From standard EADGBE, all the strings are tuned up by the same interval. String tension will be higher. Typically requires thinner gauge strings, particularly the first string which could be as thin as six thousandths of an inch (about the thickness of a single human hair). A capo is typically preferred over these tunings, as they do not increase neck strain, etc. The advantage of these tunings is that they allow an extended upper note range versus a capo used with standard tuning which limits the number of notes that can be played; in some cases, instruo B♭ or E♭ (such as saxophones, which were frequently encountered in early rock and roll music) are more easily played when the accompanying guitar plays chords in the higher tuning. If standard gauge strings are used, the result is often a "brighter" or "tighter" sound; this was a common practice for some bluegrass bands in the 1950s, notably Flatt & Scruggs.
F♯/G♭ tuning – F♯-B-E-A-C♯-F♯ / G♭-B-E-A-D♭-G♭ One full step up from standard. Primary tuning for the band The Chameleons. Johnny Marr also used this tuning extensively with The Smiths. British singer-songwriter Dave Mason also plays in F#. Alex Lifeson of Rush used this tuning on the song "The Big Money". Tremonti uses a variation of this tuning where only the 6th string is raised to F# while the rest of the guitar stays in standard tuning, and then tuning down the whole guitar one and a half steps, on the song "Trust".
G tuning also known as Terz tuning (sometimes spelled "Tierce", "Third", or "Tertz", all of which are acceptable) – G-C-F-A♯-D-G / G-C-F-B♭-D-G One and a half steps up from standard.
G♯/A♭ tuning – G♯-C♯-F♯-B-D♯-G♯ / A♭-D♭-G♭-B-E♭-A♭ Two full steps up from standard.
A tuning – A-D-G-C-E-A Two and a half steps up from standard. This is the standard tuning for the Lapstick travel guitar.
A♯/B♭ – A♯-D♯-G♯-C♯-F-A♯ / B♭-E♭-A♭-D♭-F-B♭ Three full steps up from standard.
Double-droppededit
Double drop D tuning.Double drop D tuning (listen)
Similar to the dropped tunings, except that both the 1st and 6th strings are dropped one full step.
Double Drop D – D-A-D-G-B-D Standard tuning but with the 1st and 6th strings dropped one full step. Favored by Neil Young. Has also been used by Lamb of God on some of their earlier songs. America used a variation for "Horse with No Name" in which the 5th string is also dropped, to E. It was also used on Led Zeppelin's Going to California
Double Drop C♯/Drop D♭ – C♯-G♯-C♯-F♯-A♯-C♯ / D♭-A♭-D♭-G♭-B♭-D♭/ Same as [Double] Drop D, but every string is dropped one half step. Used by the acoustic rock band Days of the New. Also used by Our Lady Peace on the song "Starseed", as well as Los Angeles based Alternative band Failure on several songs. Also used by Tremonti on the song "Fall Again", as well as Myles Kennedy on the song "Cry a River" (Mark is tuned to Drop C#)
Double Drop C – C-G-C-F-A-C One full step down from Drop D. Used by End and Sevendust on the song "Seasons".
Double Drop B – B-F♯-B-E-G♯-B / B-G♭-B-E-A♭-B/ One and one half steps down from Drop D. Used by Aaron Turner of Isis and used by Sevendust on the song "Separate".
Double Drop A♯/Drop B♭ – A♯-F-A♯-D♯-G-A♯ / B♭-F-B♭-E♭-G-B♭ Two full steps down from Drop D.
Double Drop A – A-E-A-D-F♯-A / A-E-A-D-G♭-A Two and one half steps down from Drop D.
Double Drop G♯/Drop A♭ – G♯-D♯-G♯-C♯-F-G♯ / A♭-E♭-A♭-D♭-F-A♭ Three full steps down from Drop D.
Double Drop G – G-D-G-C-E-G Three and one half steps down from Drop D.
Double Drop F♯/Drop G♭ – F♯-C♯-F♯-B-D♯-F♯ / G♭-D♭-G♭-B-E♭-G♭ Four full steps down from Drop D, or two full steps up from Drop D1.
Double Drop F – F-C-F-A♯-D-F / F-C-F-B♭-D-F Four and one half steps down from Drop D, or one and a half steps up from Drop D1.
Double Drop E – E-B-E-A-C♯-E / E-B-E-A-D♭-E Five full steps down from Drop D, or one full step up from Drop D1.
Double Drop D♯/Double Drop E♭ – D♯-A♯-D♯-G♯-C-D♯ / E♭-B♭-E♭-A♭-C-E♭ Five and one half steps down from Drop D, or one half step up from Drop D1.
Double Drop D1 Tuning – D-A-D-G-B-D Six full steps (one octave) down from Double Drop D.
DADGAD was developed by Davey Graham in the early 1960s when he was travelling in Morocco, to more easily play along with Oud music. Among the first to use this tuning were the folk-blues guitarists of the '60s like Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Martin Carthy, and John Martyn. It was many years later in the 1970s that it became established for accompanists of traditional music, predominantly Scottish and Irish. Due to this popularity it is sometimes referred to as "Celtic" tuning, although this is misleading given its origin and its primary early use in a quite different field of music. Often vocalized as "Dad-Gad", DADGAD it is now common in Celtic music. In rock music, has been used in Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir".[8]Pierre Bensusan is another noted exponent of this tuning. The post-metal group Russian Circles also employ this tuning, and also plays it tuned a half-step down: D♭-A♭-d♭-g♭-a♭-d♭'. Four down-tuned variations are used by the band Sevendust: A Drop C# variation, or C♯-G♯-c♯-f♯-g♯-c♯', Also uses a variation where the lowest string is dropped to G♯ on the song "Chop", A Drop C variation, or 'C-G-c-f-g-c'. (used on the song "Unraveling". Also uses a variation where the lowest string is dropped to G, used on some songs from Kill the Flaw and the song "Life Deceives You"), a Drop B variation, or B'-F♯-B-e-f♯-b, and a Drop A# variation, or A♯'-F-A♯-d♯-f-a♯. Neighboring tunings D-A-d-e-a-e' and C-G-c-d-g-a have been used by Martin Carthy, and D-A-d-a-a-d' was used by Dave Wakeling on the English Beat's 1983 "Save It For Later" and by My Bloody Valentine on the song "Sometimes" from Loveless (1991).
Dad-Dadedit
DADDAD tuning (listen)
D-A-d-d-a-d'
Nicknamed - "Papa-Papa". DADDAD is common in folk music (Irish, Scottish), and for the execution of a rhythm guitar in "heavy" (alternative music) on 6th on the third string at the same time. To reach the tuning from DADGAD, Open D or Open D Minor, the G string is dropped to D so that the 3rd and 4th strings are tuned to the same pitch. DADDAD tuning is sometimes used on Dobro guitars for rock and blues. Notable users of this tuning include Billy McLaughlin and John Butler.
Cello/Standard guitaredit
C-G-d-a-b-e'
Essentially a cello tuning with the deeper four strings in fifths and the two highest strings in standard guitar tuning. Used on numerous Pavement songs (including Cut Your Hair and by Foo Fighters on the song "Weenie Beenie".
"Karnivool" tuningedit
B-F♯-b-g-b-e'
Hybrid tuning between drop B-tuning and E-standard. Used by the band Karnivool for many of their songs.
Variation:
B-F♯-b-f♯-b-e'
The hybrid tuning with the 3rd string lowered a half-step to create a larger power chord, Also used by Karnivool.
Mi-composéedit
E-A-d'-g-b-e'
Mi-composé is a tuning commonly used for rhythm guitar in African popular music forms such as soukous and makossa.[60] It is similar to the standard guitar tuning, except that the d string is raised an entire octave. This is accomplished by replacing the d string with an e' string and tuning it to d'.
This is a tuning favored by the Swedish singer-songwriter José González. He uses this on such songs as "Crosses", "Heartbeats" and "Cycling Trivialities" (capo on second fret). It is similar to the standard guitar tuning, but the low E string is dropped to D and the G string is dropped a half step to F♯/G♭. Also used by artists such as M. Ward, Stephen Malkmus, and Day Wave.
Dadd9 tuningedit
D-A-D-F#-A-E
This tuning is used by Tonic in their song Soldier's Daughter with a capo on the 4th fret, Periphery uses this tuning a full step down on the song "Scarlet".
Mr.Tom tuningedit
D-F#-A-E-F#-A
This tuning was made by songwriter/composer Mr.Tom (Rawding) during the creation of an original indie folk instrumental "When You Stand By Me".[61] The tuning is based on the Open D tuning.
Liberty tuningedit
E-A-D-g-c'-e'
Promoted by Harvey Reid for use in combination with a partial capo, as a system which is easier for children to learn.
A combination of Drop Ab and Drop Db, Used by Mike Mushok on many songs, especially from Dysfunction and Break the Cycle.
Variation:
Gb-Db-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb
The previous tuning with the 6th string an additional step down, used on the song "Price to Play" and for all but one song on the Self-Titled album, these songs are played live on a 7-string with a high Eb due to some leads being tracked in a higher tuning.
The open strings of a guitar can be tuned to microtonal intervals, however microtonal scales cannot easily be played on a conventional guitar because the frets only allow for a chromatic scale of twelve equally spaced pitches, each a semitone apart. (Certain microtonal scales, particularly quarter tones, can be played on a standard guitar solely by adjusting tunings, but the distance between notes on the scale makes it somewhat impractical.) It is possible to play microtonal scales on a fretless guitar, to convert a fretted guitar into a fretless, or to make a custom neck with a specific microtonal fret spacing.
Guitars can also be refretted to a microtonal scale.[62] On many refretted microtonal guitars, the frets are split, so that the tuning of each string is independent from the others. To enable an adjustable microtonal tuning, there exist guitars with frets that can be moved across the fingerboard.[63][64]
Extended techniques such as the 3rd bridge technique, slide guitar and prepared guitar techniques can be used to produce microtonality without severe modification to the instrument.
Guitar tunings inspired by other Instrumentsedit
In his on-line guide to alternative tunings for six-string guitars, William Sethares mentions several that are inspired by instruments other than guitars, for example:
This tuning may also be used with a capo at the third fret to match the common lute pitch: G-c-f-a-d'-g'. This tuning also matches standard vihuela tuning and is often employed in classical guitar transcriptions of music written for those instruments, such as, for instance, "La Canción Del Emperador" and "Diferencias Sobre Guardame Las Vacas" by Renaissance composer Luis de Narváez.
Five-string guitar tuningsedit
When the guitar evolved from the renaissance lute in the 18th century it was a five-string instrument (baroque guitar). Today, five-string guitars are common in Brazil, where they are known as guitarra baiana and are typically tuned in 5ths. Schecter Guitar Research produced a production model five-string guitar called the Celloblaster in 1998.[65] A five-string tuning may be necessary in a pinch when a string breaks on a standard six-string (usually the high E) and no replacement is immediately available.
Some basic five-string tunings include:
Standard – E-A-d-g-b The standard tuning, without the top E string attached. Alternative variants are easy from this tuning, but because several chords inherently omit the lowest string, it may leave some chords relatively thin or incomplete with the top string missing (the D chord, for instance, must be fretted 5-4-3-2-3 to include F#, the tone a major third above D).
Baroque guitar standard tuning – a–D–g–b–e The predecessor of today's six-string classical guitar was the five-string baroque guitar tuned as the five high strings of a six-string guitar with the A raised one octave.
High C – E-A-d-g-c' Standard tuning with the B tuned a half step higher to C to emulate a six-string bass guitar, minus the low B. This is an all fourths tuning.
Celloblaster or Guitello – C-G-d-a-e' An all fifths tuning as used on cello or mandolin, extended to five strings. Used by the noise-rock band Lightning Bolt, and by Jeffrey McFarland-Johnson on his Bach Cello Suites album.[66]
Baritone – E-A-d-f♯-b In this tuning, the fourth (G) string is lowered a half-step, thus recreating the intervals between the top five strings, lowered a perfect fourth. Though chords can easily and more fully be played from this tuning, it sometimes results in awkward inversions, a relatively minor problem if the five-string is played in an ensemble with a bass guitar.
E-A-c♯-f♯-b Simulates the top four strings, followed by the second-from-bottom string on top, raised a whole step (the F♯ representing both the top and bottom E). It makes playing in the key of A major easier, though chord fingerings have to be altered unless the strings are rearranged to F♯-B-E-A-C♯.
Open G tuning – G-d-g-b-d' Some slide/bottleneck guitarists omit the bottom E string when playing in open G to have the root note as the tonic. This tuning is used by Keith Richards.
Open E♭5 tuning – E♭-B♭-e♭-b♭-e♭' This is achieved by removing the fourth (G) string, tuning both Es and the B down a half step, and the A and D strings up a half-step. This creates a five-string power chord.
Similar to five-string bass guitar tuning, seven-string tuning allows for the extra string a fourth lower than the original sixth string. This allows for the note range of B standard tuning without transposing E standard guitar chords down two and a half steps down. Baritone 7-string guitars are available which features a longer scale-length allowing it to be tuned to a lower range.
Drop D 7-string tuning – D-D-A-d-g-b-e' This is the standard seven-string tuning with the low B string raised to D and lower E string dropped to D. The Drop C variation of this tuning (C-C-G-C-F-A-D) was used by James Hetfield on an ESP 7-String Guitar when Metallica were recording the song "Some Kind Of Monster" from the album St. Anger.
Drop A 7-string tuning – A'-E-A-d-g-b-e' This is the standard seven-string tuning with the low B string dropped to A.
Standard Choro tuning – C-E-A-d-g-b-e' Standard seven-string tuning for Brazilian choro.
Drop D + B 7-string tuning – B'-D-A-d-g-b-e' Standard seven-string tuning with the low E dropped to D, which results in a minor 3rd interval between the two lowest strings of B and D. Used by Ed Sloan of Crossfade. Also used by Animals as Leaders on the song "CAFO". A flat variation of this tuning is used by Periphery on the song "Racecar".
Drop D + A 7-string tuning – A'-D-A-d-g-b-e' Seven-string tuning with the low E string dropped to D and a low A added below. Used extensively by Dir En Grey since the album "Dum Spiro Spero" as well as the song "Obscure" from the album Vulgar. Also used by Stam1na.
Thirds tuning – E-G♯-c-e-g♯-c'-e' Same range as standard six-string. Allows over two full chromatic octaves without changing position, slides or bends.
All fourths tuning – B'-E-A-d-g-c'-f' Expands the major third between the second and third strings, extending range a half step higher.
Russian Tuning – D-G-B-D-g-b-d 6-string Open G tuning with additional 5th B-string. Was a standard tuning for classic 7-string guitars in Russia in the 19th to 20th centuries.
G♯/A♭ tuning – G♯'-C♯-F♯-B-e-g♯-c♯' / A♭'-D♭-G♭-B-e-a♭-d♭' One and one half steps down from standard. Used by bands such as Deftones on their self-titled album and "Beware", Korn (on the song "Alone I Break", but on 14-string guitars). Also used by Mark Tremonti on the song "Show Me A Leader" (Myles uses a 6-String guitar tuned to D# Standard) and Spiritbox on "Electric Cross".
G tuning – G'-C-F-A♯-d♯-g-c' / G'-C-F-B♭-e♭-g-c' Two full steps down from standard tuning. Used by Vildhjarta (G-C-F-A♯-D♯-G♯-c) and Luc Lemay of Gorguts[67]
F♯/G♭ tuning – F♯'-B'-E-A-d-f♯-b / G♭'-B'-E-A-d-g♭-b Two and one half steps down from standard. Used by Danish band Mnemic in the albums Passenger, Sons of the System, and Mnemesis. Fear Factory also used this tuning for their cover of Wiseblood's "0-0 (Where Evil Dwells)", while their all other songs tuned in F♯/G♭ were played with eight-string guitars.
F tuning – F'-A♯'-D♯-G♯-c♯-f-a♯ / F'-B♭'-E♭-A♭-d♭-f-b♭ Three full steps down from standard. Used by Suicide Silence on the song "Witness The Addiction", Crystal Lake and Meshuggah during the recording of Nothing. The songs are played live using 8 string guitars.
E tuning – E'-A'-D-G-c-e-a Three and a half steps down from standard.
F Tuning with Low E – E'-A♯'-D♯-G♯-c♯-f-a♯ / E'-B♭'-E♭-A♭-d♭-f-b♭ Used by Meshuggah on "Stengah", "Perpetual Black Second", "Glints Collide" and "Organic Shadows" from the Nothing album and on "Marrow" from the album Koloss, although the other guitar was in F. The songs are now performed on 8-String Guitars.
D♯/E♭ tuning – D♯'-G♯'-C♯-F♯-B-d♯-g♯ / E♭'-A♭'-D♭-G♭-B-e♭-a♭ Four full steps down from standard. Used by Meshuggah on the song "Nebulous" from the album Nothing. Originally recorded on 7-String Guitars tuned down, the band switched to 8-String Guitars shortly after the album was released. The band play the song live a full step up from the original in F Standard Tuning on 8-String Guitars.
D tuning – D'-G'-C-F-A♯-d-g / D'-G'-C-F-B♭-d-g Four and one half steps down from standard.
C♯/D♭ tuning – C♯'-F♯'-B'-E-A-c♯-f♯ / D♭'-G♭'-B'-E-A-d♭-g♭/ Five full steps down from standard.
C tuning – C'-F'-A♯'-D♯-G♯-c-f / C'-F'-B♭'-E♭-A♭-c-f Five and one half steps down from standard.
Octave Tuning – B"-E'-A'-D-G-B-e Six full steps (one octave) down from standard tuning.
High A – E-A-d-g-b-e'-a' – Standard tuning with a high 'A' instead of a low 'B'. Because of the high pitch of the 'A' string, it usually requires a multi-scale fingerboard (fanned frets) to provide enough tension.
C tuning – C-F-A♯-d♯-g-c'-f' / C-F-B♭-e♭-g-c'-f' Half a step up from standard, used by Eddie Rendini during his time in Cold.
C♯ tuning – C♯-F♯-B-e-a-c♯-f♯ The whole step up from standard. This tuning was used by Wes Borland with high E-string being lowered to C♯ (C♯-F♯-B-e-a-c♯-c♯) on the first two Limp Bizkit records.
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These tunings have the lowest string (or other strings tuned one full step lower allowing for chord structures similar to six-string drop tunings.
Drop B variations – B-F♯-B-E-A-C♯-F♯ / B-F♯-B-E-G♯-C♯-F♯ / B-G♭-B-E-A-D♭-G♭ a tuning which imitates the standard drop B tuning of a 6 string electric guitar, but with a high F♯ for soloing. Used by bands such as All Shall Perish, Decapitated, Unearth, and Assemble the Chariots,
Drop A#/Drop Bb variations – A♯-F-A♯-D♯-G♯-C-F / A♯-F-A♯-D♯-G-C-F tuning combining 6-string Drop A♯, with a high F string, half-step above Drop A, Used by TesseracT and Monuments (A♯-F-A♯-D♯-f-a♯-d♯)
Drop A – alternatively, A-E-A-D-F#-B-E The same as drop A tuning for a 6-string on the low strings while retaining a high E. In effect converts a 7-string into a drop A baritone guitar, but with standard tuning's soloing capability. Used by Lorna Shore, Volumes, and Whitechapel on the song "This Is Exile".
Drop F♯/Drop G♭ – F♯-C♯-F♯-B-E-G♯-C♯ / G♭-D♭-G♭-B-E-A♭-D♭ One and one half steps down from standard Drop A. Used by Deftones (on their Saturday Night Wrist album), Rivers of Nihil, Shokran, Volumes, Spiritbox, Erra (on some songs from Neon and ERRA), and Thornhill.
Drop F – F-C-F-A♯-D♯-G-C / F-C-F-B♭-E♭-G-C / Two full steps down from standard Drop A. This tuning is used on three tracks on Attack Attack!'s album This Means War: "The Hopeless," "The Abdu/ction," and "The Wretched." The bands DVSR, Northlane (F-B♭-F-B♭-E♭-G-C), 3TEETH (on "Metawar"), The Acacia Strain (8 string guitars), Vildhjarta (F-C-F-A♯-D♯-G♯-C), Aversions Crown (8 string guitars) Reflections, Carnifex (8 string guitars), and "Conan" use this tuning as well. Triumphant Return uses a variation of this tuning (F-C-G-C-F-A-D).
Drop E1 – E-B-E-A-D-F♯-B / E-B-E-A-D-G♭-B Two and one half steps down from standard Drop A. Used by Oceano, Currents and Erra on their most recent singles. A variant of this tuning is used by Vildhjarta (E-C-F-A♯-D♯-G♯-C) On their album "Måsstaden under vatten" a Pitch Shifter is heavily utilized and Northlane (E-A-E-A-D-F♯-B) On "Vultures" and "Paradigm" on Alien and "Abomination" and "Inamorata" on Obsidian.
Drop D1♯/Drop E1♭ – D♯-A♯-D♯-G♯-C♯-F-A♯ / E♭-B♭-E♭-A♭-D♭-F-B♭ Three full steps down from standard Drop A. A variation of this tuning is used by Northlane since the Alien album (E♭-A♭-E♭-A♭-D♭-F-B♭)
Drop D1 – D-A-D-G-C-E-A Three and one half steps down from standard Drop A. Used by Black Tongue, Northlane on "Eclipse" and "Dark Solitaire" (D-G-D-G-C-E-A) and Spiritbox on "Yellowjacket"
Drop C1♯/Drop D1♭ – D♭-A♭-D♭-G♭-B-E♭-A♭ / C♯-G♯-C♯-F♯-B-D♯-G♯ Four full steps down from standard Drop A.
Drop C1 – C-G-C-F-A♯-D-G / C-G-C-F-B♭-D-G Four and one half steps down from standard Drop A. Used by Within the Ruins on the album Phenomena with the variation C-F-c-f-A#-D-G.
Drop B0 – B-F♯-B-E-A-C♯-F♯ / B-G♭-B-E-A-D♭-G♭ Five full steps down from standard Drop A. Six full steps (one octave) down from a baritone Drop B guitar
Drop A♯/Drop B♭ – A♯-F-A♯-D♯-G♯-C-F / B♭-F-B♭-E♭-A♭-C-F Five and one half steps down from standard Drop A.
Drop A0 tuning – A-E-A-D-G-B-E Six full steps (one octave) down from standard Drop A.
Drop G#0 tuning -G♯-D♯-G♯-C♯-F♯-A♯-D♯ (One octave below drop G#). Used by American deathcore band Anzu.
G + A# Standard – G-A#-D#-G#-C#-F-A# 6 String A# tuning with a low G1 on the bottom, Used by Crystal Lake[68] since 2015.
Alternate Drop A0 Tuning - A-D-A-D-G-E-E 6 string Drop D with an low A but an octave lower with the high B string tuned to the same E as the 1st string. Used by Admiral Angry where they took 5 string bass guitars and converted them into 7 string guitars.
Eight-stringedit
A continuation of the seven-string guitar, the eight-string guitar adds another string a perfect fourth lower than the low B of the seven-string guitar. This additional low F♯ string is just a whole step up from a bass guitars low E string.
F tuning – F'-B♭'-E♭-A♭-d♭-g♭-b♭-e♭' Half a step down from standard tuning. Used famously by Meshuggah, as well as After The Burial, Butcher Babies, and Carnifex on some songs, Galactic Pegasus uses a variation of this tuning with the 7th string tuned down to A♭, mostly used on the "Pariah" EP.
E tuning – E'-A'-D-G-c-f-a-d' One full step down from standard tuning. Used by Meshuggah on "Stengah", "Perpetual Black Second", "Glints Collide" and "Organic Shadows" from the album Nothing and Korn on their Untitled album and on songs "Illuminati" and "Way Too Far" from their The Path of Totality album.
E♭ tuning- E♭'-A♭'-D♭-G♭-B-e-a♭-d♭' One and a half steps down from standard tuning. Used by Meshuggah on "Nebulous" from the album Nothing and Dissipate on their Tectonics EP.
D tuning – D'-G'-C-F-a♯-d♯-g-c' Two full steps down from standard tuning.
D♭ tuning – D♭'-G♭'-B-E-a-d-g♭-b' Two and a half steps down from standard tuning
A tuning – A"-D'-G'-C-F-A-d-g Three and a half steps down from standard tuning.
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High A tuning – B'-E-A-d-g-b-e'-a' Standard seven string tuning with a 'high a' Used by Rusty Cooley.
All fourths tuning – F♯'-B'-E-A-d-g-c'-f' Regular tuning which extends range a half step higher.
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Drop E 8-string tuning – E-B-E-A-D-G-B-E A combination of standard 7-string tuning and the 8th string dropped one full step from F♯ to E. Allows to play in the range of a standard electric bass, as well as one-finger power chords. Used by Animals as Leaders on most songs.[69] and Whitechapel (on the songs "Devolver" and "Breeding Violence" from A New Era of Corruption) Also used by Deftones on Koi No Yokan and Gore, Allegaeon, and Emmure on the song "N.I.A. (News in Arizona)". An open variation of this tuning is used by Hacktivist with 3rd and 4th strings tuned a whole step up to A and E respectively (E-B-E-A-E-A-B-E). Also used by Born of Osiris on the songs "Silence the Echo" and "Crossface", Chelsea Grin on more recent material and by Carcosa. Fractalize also used this tuning on "Visions" from the Phophet Of Despair EP and "Sightless" from the Immersion album.
Drop A + E 8-string tuning – E-A-E-A-D-G-B-E A combination of 7-string drop A tuning and an 8th string dropped one full step from F♯ to E, allowing both power chords rooted on A, and easy fingering with the E a fourth below. This is the tuning of the lowest two strings of a bass, along with all strings of a standard 6-string guitar in standard tuning. It is used by Rings Of Saturn on the album Lugal Ki En and Mick Gordon on much of his work on the DOOM and DOOM Eternal soundtracks, notably Rip And Tear, BFG Division and Meathook.
Drop A + E (variation) – E-A-E-A-D-F♯-B-E A variation on Drop E, A with the G flattened one half step to F♯; this tuning is identical to 6-string Drop A, with two E strings added: one above, and one below. Like Drop E + A; this tuning allows easy fingering on the E since it is a standard fourth interval below the A. It also provides three high strings a fourth apart instead of the usual two. The tuning is used by Infant Annihilator on their albums The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch and The Battle of Yaldabaoth.
Drop E♭/D♯ 8-string tuning – E♭-B♭-E♭-A♭-D♭-G♭-B♭-E♭ Half a step down from drop E tuning. Used by Meshuggah in the album Catch Thirty-Three, in the song Shed and used by Emmure in the album Speaker of the Dead in the song "Word of Intulo". Also used by After the Burial in the song "To Carry You Away" off of the album In Dreams and the song "To Challenge Existence" from the album Evergreen, The band Ion Dissonance used a variation of this tuning (D#-G#-C#-F#-C#-F#-A#-D#)[70] from Cursed onwards.
Drop D 8-string tuning – D-A-D-G-C-F-A-D One full step down from drop E. Used by Meshuggah on the song "Obsidian" (D-A♯-D♯-G♯-C♯-F♯-A♯-D♯). Also used by Issues in the song "Tapping Out", Reflections on the "Willow" album, Enterprise Earth, along with some altered variations of the tuning and Mick Gordon on few tracks of the DOOM Eternal soundtrack.
Drop D + G (variation) D-G-D-G-C-E-A-D Combination of 6-string Drop G, with two D strings added: one above, and one below. Used by industrial and djent composer E.M.M.P.
Drop C♯ 8-string tuning – C♯-G♯-C♯-F♯-B-E-G♯-C♯ One and a half steps down from drop E. Used by Enox, Issues on the song "Downfall", Fractalize on "Prophet Of Despair", "Void" and most of the Immersion album. Although they use an altered version of the tuning to utilize the dissonant voicings (C♯-G♯-C♯-F♯-B-E-G♯-A). Galactic Pegasus used this tuning on "Rhetoric".
Drop C 8-string tuning – C-G-C-F-A♯-D♯-G-C Two full steps down from Drop E. Used by bands like Bound In Fear, Distant (some songs on the Aeons of Oblivion album), False Images, Black Tongue (on their album Nadir), Skyburial, Vyletongue, Terror District, Lowlife, and Instill Terror.
Drop C♯ + A 8-string tuning – C♯-A-E-A-D-G-B-E Standard 8-string tuning with the 8th string dropped 5 half steps from F♯ to C♯ and the 7th string dropped one full step from B to A. this tuning is used by Animals as Leaders on the songs "New Eden" and "Physical Education" using a guitar with two extra frets on the 8th and the 7th string. Also used by Kevin Sherwood (On his songs Pareidolia & Coming Home from the Call of Duty: Nazi Zombie mode)
Drop C♯ + B 8-string tuning – C♯-B-E-A-D-G-B-E Standard 8-string tuning with the 8th string dropped 5 half steps to C♯, Used by Periphery on "Hell Below."
Drop A♯ + A# 8-string tuning – A♯-A♯-D♯-G♯-C♯-F♯-A♯-D♯ F Standard 8-String tuning with the 8th string dropped another 7 half steps. Used by Meshuggah on "Spasm" on the album Nothing. When the song was originally recorded, it was originally recorded on 7-String Guitars tuned A#-A#-D#-G#-C#-F-A#. Due to the loose tension on the lowest string, Mårten and Fredrik only played the lowest string.
Open D Tuning - D-A-D-A-D-F#-A-D 3rd string half a step down. The eighth and seventh string is tuned down two full steps, the sixth string is tuned down a full step. The fifth and fourth strings are left alone and the two highest strings are tuned down a full step. This tuning has been used by Dean Murphy in some of his songs.
Nine-stringedit
A continuation of the eight-string guitar, the nine-string guitar adds a string lower or higher.
Standard 9-string tuning – C♯-F♯-B-E-A-d-g-b-e'. Used by Mick Gordon for the Doom soundtrack, and by Animals As Leaders for Private Visions of the World. Also used by Deftones on the album Ohms.
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C tuning – C-F-A♯-D♯-G♯-c♯-f♯-a♯-d♯ One half step from standard tuning.
B0 tuning – B-E-A-D-G-c-f-a-d One full step from standard tuning. Gives the range of a five-string electric bass as well as a 6-string guitar in D tuning.
A#0 Tuning -A♯-D♯-G♯-C♯-F♯-b-e-g♯-c♯ A step and a half step from standard tuning.
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High A – F♯-B-E-A-d-g-b-e'-a'
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Drop E + B 9-string tuning – B-E-B-E-A-d-g-b-e Gives the range of a five-string electric bass as well as a seven-string electric guitar in standard tuning. Used by Rings of Saturn for their song The Husk and Andrew Baena on "How to Sink".
Drop B 9-string tuning – B-F♯-B-E-A-d-g-b-e 9-string guitar in standard tuning with the lowest string dropped two half steps down to B0, the same note as on the lowest string of a 5-string electric bass. Used by Rob Scallon for his song Rogue and Andrew Baena on some songs such as "Massassi". Fractalize used this tuning on "Fault Lines" from the Immersion album, although they recorded it on 8-String Guitars.
Double Drop A# - A#-F-A#-D#-G#-c#-f#-a#-d# 9 String Standard down a half step and then drop tuned from C to A#0. A variation of this tuning is used by Fractalize on the song "Instant" from the Immersion, but they use 8-String Guitars. The tuning used on the song is A#-E-A#-D#-G#-c#-f-f#.
Double Drop A – A-E-A-E-A-d-g-b-e This is the 7-string drop A tuning with another E and A string added one octave lower. Used by Rings of Saturn, and "Akuma" by Galactic Pegasus. This tuning is also used by Fractalize on the songs "Suneater" on the Prophets Of Despair EP and on "Fragment" on the Immersion album. They use 8-String Guitars.
Drop A 9-string tuning – A-E-A-D-G-c-f-a-d Standard 9-string tuning tuned one whole step down, and the lowest string dropped another whole step. A variant of this tuning is used by Josh Travis of Emmure (A-D-A-D-C(16 cents sharp)-C-G-G#-E). Mick Gordon also uses this tuning on the DOOM 2016 soundtrack for a couple tracks, notably "Flesh and Metal" (A-D-A-D-A-D-G-B-E).[71] also a variation used by American deathcore band nitheful (A-E-A-D-A-D-G-B-E) on their most recent album release creation ov god. Also used by Andrew Baena on his video "What If Djent 2019 Tuned Down" (A-D-A-D-G-C-F-A-D).
Double Drop G♯ - G♯-D♯-G♯-C♯-F♯-b-e-g♯-c♯ Used by the band Carthage on their song "Years And Darkness", from their 2012 album "Salt The Earth".
Double Drop G — G-D-G-C-F-a♯-d♯-g-c. An alternate version was used by Andrew Baena on the video "What If Djent 2019 Tuned Down" (G-C-G-C-F-a♯-d♯-g-c.) He used a pitch shifter on his 9-String Guitar which was tuned to A-D-A-D-G-C-F-A-D.
Drop F 9-string tuning – F-C-F-A#-D#-g#-c#-f-a# Used by American deathcore band Anzu.[72]
Drop F Variation) – F-C-F-C-F-A♯-D♯-G-C This tuning is exactly like the previously mentioned A-E-A-E-A-D-G-B-E tuning but 2 whole steps lower. Used by the Vocaloid metal band One Minute Winter.
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After The Burial 9-string tuning – C♯-F-A♯-D♯-G♯-c♯-f♯-a♯-d♯ Standard 9-string tuning with the top 8 strings down a half step, Used by After The Burial on songs 'Pennyweight', 'Neo Seoul', 'A Wolf Amongst Ravens' and 'Mire'
As a continuation of the nine-string guitar, the ten-string guitar adds another lower or higher string to the standard tuning.
Standard (continued 4ths) – G♯-C♯-F♯-B-E-A-d-g-b-e'
High A – C♯-F♯-B-E-A-d-g-b-e'-a'
Drop F♯ 10-string tuning – F♯-C♯-F♯-B-E-A-d-g-b-e' 10-string guitar in standard tuning with the lowest string dropped two steps from G♯ to F♯, which is a fourth lower than the low B string on a five-string bass.
Double Drop B – B-F♯-B-E-G♯-e-a-d-g-b This tuning was used by the deathcore band When Blood Falls Down.
Triple Drop C - C-G-C-B-E-A-d-g-b-e Also known as C0 tuning / Drop C0 tuning, it uses the standard tuning of a 7-string guitar with the 8th, 9th and 10th string dropped by 4 steps from double drop E. Due the very low tuning the bottom strings require very heavy strings.
Standard bass plus standard guitar – standard E-A-D-g-b-e tuning for the top six strings and standard E'-A'-G-D bass tuning for the bottom four strings. It is set as a factory tuning for the Agile Septor 1030.
Coma Cluster Void tuning – C-F♯-G-E-F-B-C-G♯-C♯-D' An extremely dissonant tuning used by the band Coma Cluster Void.[73]
Eighteen-stringedit
A special extended range electric guitar made by Ormsby Guitars for Jared Dines for the Djent 2018 event, as today only one instrument of that kinda has been produced.
Jared Dines tuning – E-D♯-C♯F♯-B-E-D♯-G♯-C♯-F♯-B-E-A-D-G-B-E-A' the first bottom strings use the regular standard tuning of a 10 strings guitar starting from the 2nd string to the 11th, with the first string tunned to A
Steel guitaredit
On pedal steel guitar, the most common tunings on double-neck instruments are the extended-chord C6 tuning and E9 tuning, sometimes known as the Texas and Nashville tunings respectively.[74] On a double-neck instrument, the neck nearest the player will normally be some form of C6, and the furthest neck E9.[74]
Necks with 12 or more strings can be used with universal tunings which combine the features of C6 and E9. On a 12-string pedal steel guitar, all 12 strings are tuned and played individually, not as six double courses as on the 12-string guitar.
On a lap steel guitar there may be up to four necks, each tuned differently. The C6 tuning was a common tuning for a six-string lap steel in the 1920s and 1930s.[75]: 131 Tunings with a sixth interval are popular in Western swing and jazz, while tunings containing sevenths are often chosen for blues and rock music.[76]
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources List of guitar tunings news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article contains a list of guitar tunings that supplements the article guitar tunings In particular this list contains more examples of open and regular tunings which are discussed in the article on guitar tunings In addition this list also notes dropped tunings A FuniChar D 616 guitar with a Drop D tuning It has an unusual additional fretboard that extends onto the headstock Most guitarists obtain a Drop D tuning by detuning the low E string a tone down Contents 1 Standard tuning 2 Open 2 1 Major 2 1 1 Open A 2 1 2 Open B 2 1 3 Open C 2 1 4 Open D 2 1 5 Open E 2 1 6 Open F 2 1 7 Open G 2 2 Minor Cross note 2 3 Modal 2 4 Extended chord 3 Regular tunings 3 1 Major seconds 3 2 Minor thirds 3 3 Major thirds 3 4 All fourths 3 5 Augmented fourths 3 6 All fifths Mandoguitar 3 6 1 New standard tuning 3 7 Ostrich tuning 4 Dropped 4 1 Examples 5 Shifted 5 1 Lowered standard 5 2 Raised 5 3 Double dropped 6 Miscellaneous 6 1 Dad Gad 6 2 Dad Dad 6 3 Cello Standard guitar 6 4 Karnivool tuning 6 5 Mi compose 6 6 Iris Tuning 6 7 E A C F A C Sleeping Ute 6 8 Jose Gonzalez tuning 6 9 Dadd9 tuning 6 10 Mr Tom tuning 6 11 Liberty tuning 6 12 Converge tuning 6 13 El Ten Eleven tuning 6 14 Staind tuning 6 15 Microtonal tuning 6 16 Guitar tunings inspired by other Instruments 7 Five string guitar tunings 8 Extended range guitar tunings 8 1 Seven string 8 1 1 Lower 8 1 2 Higher 8 1 3 Dropped 8 2 Eight string 8 2 1 Lower 8 2 2 Higher 8 2 3 Dropped 8 3 Nine string 8 3 1 Lower 8 3 2 Higher 8 3 3 Dropped 8 3 4 Other 8 4 Ten string 8 5 Eighteen string 8 6 Steel guitar 9 References 9 1 Sources 10 Further reading 11 External linksStandard tuning editE A d g b e Throughout this list references standard tuning i e E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4 for comparison Open editMain article Open tuning Major edit nbsp Initial eight harmonics on C namely C C G C E G B C source source source played simultaneously Major open tunings give a major chord with the open strings Open A edit E A C E A EAlternatively A E A E A C one step down from Open B Slide Open A E A E A C E identical to Open G tuning but with every string raised one step or two frets Used by Jimmy Page on In My Time of Dying and Jack White on Seven Nation Army and Catch Hell Blues Open B edit B F B F B D Alternatively F B D F B D Used by Nickelback on Should ve Listened Devin Townsend in recent years and Big Wreck on Albatross Open C edit C G C G C EThis open C tuning is used by William Ackerman for his Townsend Shuffle and by John Fahey for his tribute to Mississippi John Hurt This tuning is also commonly used by John Butler on his 12 string guitar 1 This tuning is used on most work by Devin Townsend in his solo work as well as his work with Strapping Young Lad When playing on a 7 string guitar he would have a low G as the lowest string to complete the fifth David Wilcox also recorded his most famous songs Eye of the Hurricane and Rusty Old American Dream both from How Did You Find Me Here in this tuning as well as New World Show the Way Hold It Up to the Light and his cover of It s the Same Old Song from Big Horizon and Mango from East Asheville Hardware C E G C E GThe English guitar used a repetitive open C tuning that approximated a major thirds tuning 2 C C G C E G 3 This open C tuning gives the initial harmonic series when a C string is struck 4 The C C G C E G tuning uses the harmonic sequence overtones of the note C When an open note C string is struck its harmonic sequence begins with the notes C C G C E G B C 3 4 This overtone series tuning was modified by Mick Ralphs who used a high C rather than the high G for Can t Get Enough on Bad Company Ralphs said It needs the open C to have that ring and it never really sounds right in standard tuning 5 Open D edit nbsp Open D tuning source source Open D tuning listen D A D F A DOpen D tuning is used by Joni Mitchell for her Big Yellow Taxi 6 Nick Drake for Place To Be Alt J for Interlude 2 Boys Like Girls for Thunder Harry Styles for Matilda David Wilcox for Wildberry Pie Mighty Ocean Kindness and Never Enough and by Soko for No More Home No More Love Open D tuning has been called Vestapol tuning 7 Richie Havens used Open D tuning to be able to play chords using only his thumb and one or two fingers Wilco have several songs in Open D Kevin Cronin used Open D in Time for Me to Fly the 1978 REO Speedwagon hit song with four top string variations for G and A Alternatively D A D A D DThis alternative Open D tuning and its downtuned variations is frequently used by Mark Tremonti guitarist for the bands Creed Alter Bridge and Tremonti It was also used by Keith Richards on Jumpin Jack Flash and the Stone Roses in Love Spreads citation needed C G C F G C This tuning is the same as Open D but tuned a half step down It is used by Alice In Chains on the songs Over Now Nothin Song and Shame in You by Guns N Roses on the song Bad Obsession and by Switchfoot on the song Daisy Open E edit E B E G B E use light gauge strings because three strings must be raised Open E is used by Duane Allman on Fillmore East and many other Slide tracks he played and recorded Brian Jones on No Expectations I Wanna Be Your Man Keith Richards on Salt of the Earth Prodigal Son Gimme Shelter Jigsaw Puzzle Jumpin Jack Flash You Can t Always Get What You Want and by Bob Dylan on his 1975 album Blood on the Tracks The tuning is also used by Hoobastank on their first and second albums by Judy Collins on her cover of Both Sides Now and by Junior Campbell on the Marmalade recordings Reflections of My Life and I See the Rain Lastly the Open E tuning is used by Johnny Marr of the Smiths on The Headmaster Ritual Open F edit F A C F C F requires light gauge strings Alternatively without light gauge strings C F C F A CC F C F A C is the more common of the two Used by Elizabeth Cotten on her song When I Get Home Led Zeppelin on When the Levee Breaks and Bron Yr Aur Stomp studio F Sharp Tuning F A C F C F Alternative C F C F A C F F C F A C is also used by Dave Mason on Only You Know and I Know F A C G C E is also sometimes used most notably by the band American Football The guitarist Yvette Young is also known to use this tuning Open G edit source source Open G tuning listen nbsp The Russian guitar s tuning approximates a major thirds tuning D G D G B D also known as Spanish Tuning or Chicago Tuning Open G was used in rock by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin in the songs Dancing Days That s The Way and Black Country Woman Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones as well as in Mississippi blues by Son House Charley Patton and Robert Johnson some songs by Alter Bridge including down tuned and minor variations on In Loving Memory Watch Over You Wonderful Life Words Darker Than Their Wings Cradle to the Grave and Dying Light and in Fearless by Pink Floyd 8 David Wilcox used this tuning on The Nightshift Watchman G G D G B DListing the initial six harmonics of the G note this open G tuning was used by Joni Mitchell for Electricity For the Roses and Hunter The Good Samaritan 9 It was also used by Mick Ralphs for Hey Hey on Bad Company s debut album 5 and on the Meowtain song Alleyway Stone Gossard also used this tuning in the song Daughter by Pearl Jam Alternatively G B D G B D slack key guitar 10 Alternatively C G D G B D used by Big Wreck on multiple songs most notably Inhale and Mistake They downtune it a half step 11 and by David Wilcox on It s Almost Time Just a Vehicle Distant Water Golden Day and his covers of The Kid and Missing You Also used by Andrew Peterson on his song Faith to be Strong and by Macseal on multiple songs Dobro Open G G B D G B D occasionally adopted for ordinary guitar but requires lighter fifth and sixth strings Russian guitar Open G The tuning of the Russian guitarD G B D G B D dd is an open G tuning approximately in major thirds 12 13 Minor Cross note edit The following open tunings use a minor third and give a minor chord with open strings To avoid the relatively cumbersome designation open D minor open C minor such tunings are sometimes called cross note tunings The term also expresses the fact that compared to Major chord open tunings by fretting the lowered string at the first fret it is possible to produce a major chord very easily 14 Cross note or open E minor was used by Bukka White and Skip James 15 Cross note tunings include low to high Cross note A E A E A C E Alternative E A C E A E 16 17 Cross note C C G C G C E C C G C E G a cross note overtones tuning C C G C E A a cross note overtones tuning that facilitates seventh chords Cross note D D A D F A D used by John Fahey on the song Red Pony Alternative D A D A D F used by William Ackerman on Barbara s Song Cross note E E B E G B E used by ZZ Top on the song Just Got Paid and by Joey Eppard on the 3 song Bramfatura Cross note F F A C F C F extremely rare Alternative F C F A C F used by Albert Collins 18 requires light gauges Cross note G D G D G B D source source Sitar A tuning listen Alternative Cross A E A E A E A Sitar A an alternative low guitar system Recalls the sound of Indian sitar Modal edit nbsp D modal tuning In modal tunings the strings are tuned to form a chord which is not definitively minor or major These tunings may facilitate very easy chords and unique sounds when the open strings are used as drones Often these tunings form a suspended chord on the open strings A well known user of modal tunings is Sonic Youth Asus2 E A B E A E Asus4 E A D E A E used by Davey Graham in Lord Mayo Lord Inchiquin on The Complete Guitarist 19 B modal B F B E G B used by Neil Young on his 1962 Martin D 28 Bsus4 B F B E F B DADGAD but three notes 1 1 2 steps lower a main tuning of Sevendust who have used it since Animosity Badd9 B F C F B D Used by Devin Townsend on Bastard a minor variation is used by Alter Bridge on the song This Side of Fate tuned B F C F B D Csus2 C G C G C D first five strings equivalent to Double C tuning for the banjo believed to have been used by David Wilcox on Let Them In from Home Again for the First Time though even he isn t entirely sure Csus4 9 C G C F C D used by Martin Simpson in We Are All Heroes and by David Wilcox on Come Away to Sea from The Nightshift Watchman with the high string raised to E Csus4 C G C F G C used by John Renbourn on Bouree I amp II 20 Low C C G D G A D used by David Wilcox on High Hill Covert War Chet Baker s Unsung Swan Song Break in the Cup Show Me the Key Silent Prayer and Leaving You Dsus2 D A D E A D used by David Wilcox on How Did You Find Me Here Dsus4 D A D G A D devised by British guitarist Davey Graham 21 in the late 1950s associated with French acoustic guitarist Pierre Bensusan 22 and used by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin for a number of songs including Kashmir and Black Mountain Side also used by David Wilcox on multiple songs occasionally tuning half a step down Esus2 E B E F B E used by My Bloody Valentine in Only Shallow and by John Mayer in Something s Missing Wherever You Go Heart So Heavy and In Your Atmosphere Esus4 E B E A B E E A B E B E the latter used by Jars of Clay on their debut album Jars of Clay E7sus4 E A D E B E used by Ed Sheeran in Tenerife Sea EEEEBE a k a Bruce Palmer Modal Tuning as named and used by Stephen Stills in Suite Judy Blue Eyes where Stills uses this tuning while the other guitar is in standard tuning 23 E modal E B E E B E E modal alternative E E B B B B used by Soundgarden on the songs The Day I Tried To Live My Wave and Been Away Too Long Drake s Drone B E B E B E used by Nick Drake in many of his songs including Man in a Shed and From the Morning Gsus2 D G D G A D Gsus4 D G D G C D first five strings equivalent to Sawmill tuning for the banjo Gsus4 4 Orkney Tuning C G D G C D Alternative Gsus4 G C D G C D used by Swervedriver throughout their career starting with the album Mezcal Head Extended chord edit In extended chord tunings the open strings form a seventh ninth or eleventh chord B add4 E B D F B E used by This Town Needs Guns on Adventure Stamina and Anger and Left Aligned and Bon Iver on Perth C6 C A C G C E used by Jimmy Page in Bron Yr Aur Friends and Poor Tom Cmaj11 C F C G B E used by Soundgarden on the song 4th of July Cm add4 C F C G C D used by This Town Needs Guns on Baboon and Lemur Open Page Csus2 Gsus4 D G C G C D used by Jimmy Page in The Rain Song Dm7 D A D F A C used by Richie Havens in From the Prison 24 Dm add9 D A D F A E used by Opeth on Ghost Reveries Dadd9 D A D F A E used by Coby amp Simone on Butterflies in Space 25 D7 D A D F A C Dmaj7 D A D F A C used by Coby amp Simone on Coloured Visions 26 D m add2 4 F G D F A D used by This Town Needs Guns on Chinchilla and Gibbon Em7 C C G D G B E used by Soundgarden on the songs Mailman and Limo Wreck Richard Thompson on 1952 Vincent Black Lightning and Pavement on several songs Fmaj9 F A C G C E used by American Football on Never Meant and This Town Needs Guns on Crocodile G6 D G D G B E used by Soundgarden on the songs Dusty Fresh Tendrils Never Named and Superunknown G7 D G D G B F 27 Gmaj7 D G D F B D A maj7 A F A D A D extremely rare Gadd4 D G D G B C used by Soundgarden on Like Suicide Em11 E B D G A D used by Crosby Stills amp Nash on Guinnevere Regular tunings edit nbsp For every major thirds tuning the consecutive open notes are separated by four semitones and so three strings cover the twelve notes of the octave Main article Regular tuning Major seconds edit C D E F G A or C D F G A BA compact tuning that fits within one octave and covers the chromatic scale between open strings and the first fret Minor thirds edit C D F A C D In the minor thirds tuning every interval between successive strings is a minor third In the minor thirds tuning beginning with C the open strings contain the notes C D F of the diminished C chord 28 Major thirds edit Main article Major thirds tuning See also Ralph Patt Major thirds tuning is a regular tuning in which the musical intervals between successive strings are each major thirds 29 30 31 Unlike all fourths and all fifths tuning major thirds tuning repeats its octave after three strings which again simplifies the learning of chords and improvisation 32 Neighboring the standard tuning is the major thirds tuning that has the open strings E G C e g c 29 33 A lower major thirds tuning has the open strings C E G c e g which contains two octaves of a C augmented chord 30 All fourths edit nbsp Stanley Jordan plays guitar using all fourths tuning Main article All fourths tuning See also Perfect fourth E A d g c f This tuning is like that of the lowest four strings in standard tuning 34 35 Jazz musician Stanley Jordan plays guitar in all fourths tuning he has stated that all fourths tuning simplifies the fingerboard making it logical 36 Augmented fourths edit Main article Augmented fourths tuning C F c f c f or B F b f b f Between the all fifths and all fourths tunings are augmented fourth tunings which are also called diminished fifths or tritone tunings 37 All fifths Mandoguitar edit nbsp New standard tuning source source New Standard Tuning s open strings Main article All fifths tuning C G D A E B or G D A E B F All fifths tuning is a tuning in intervals of perfect fifths like that of a mandolin cello or violin other names include perfect fifths and fifths 38 It has a wide range thus it requires an appropriate range of string gauges A high b string has been recently developed by Octave4Plus gauged at 006 which is considerable thinner than most guitar strings on the market but under low tension to prevent breakage New standard tuning edit Main article New standard tuning See also Guitar Craft C G D A E g All fifths tuning has been approximated by the New Standard Tuning NST of King Crimson s Robert Fripp It has a wider range than standard tuning and its perfect fifth intervals facilitate quartal and quintal harmony Ostrich tuning edit E E e e e e or C C c c c c Ostrich tuning is a tuning where all strings are tuned to the same note over two or three octaves 39 creating an intense chorused drone and interesting fingering potential Used by Soundgarden E E e e e e on the song Mind Riot and by Lou Reed in the Velvet Underground Dropped editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed July 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message nbsp Drop D tuningDrop tunings lower the sixth string dropping the lowest E string of the standard tuning Some drop tunings also lower the fifth string the A note in standard tuning A drop one tuning lowers the pitch by one full step Some lower tunings may call for a baritone guitar to more easily maintain high string tension and a rich tone Others can be achieved using a capo and or a partial capo Examples edit source source Drop D tuning listen Drop D D A D G B EStandard tuning but with the 6th string dropped one full step Utilized by bands and or artists HUM Radiohead Avenged Sevenfold Arrowmont Kvelertak Led Zeppelin on Moby Dick Jack White on the song High Ball Stepper Rage Against the Machine Bon Jovi Prayer for Cleansing Lamb of God Underoath Evanescence Silverchair Muse FTISLAND Godsmack Marilyn Manson Skillet Helmet DAY6 Soundgarden Metallica on All Nightmare Long and Just A Bullet Away Chino Moreno of Deftones used this tuning on the songs Hole in the Earth and Beauty School Rammstein Sum 41 Paramore in some songs Fugazi in some songs Tool in all their albums except Prison Sex which is Drop B in standard variation Tuning and Parabol Parabola which has E dropped to B and A dropped to E Papa Roach Every Time I Die Three Days Grace Seether Trivium early C3 Church on their song Breathe as well as numerous songs on older albums Nickelback Stone Temple Pilots in some songs Audioslave Filter Foo Fighters Porcupine Tree Since In Absentia Incubus on some songs Guns N Roses on Chinese Democracy and Sorry from Chinese Democracy most of the rest of the album was in E tuning Black Veil Brides on the song Knives and Pens the Devil Wears Prada David Wilcox on Daddy s Money Jamie s Secret Common as the Rain You Were Going Somewhere Last Chance Waltz All the Roots Grow Deeper When It s Dry Waffle House and several songs from East Asheville Hardware Nirvana in some songs Zakk Wylde in some of his projects Aerosmith on Livin on the Edge Quicksand Alesana Eyes Set to Kill and the Beatles on Dear Prudence Iron Maiden on Mother of Mercy If Eternity Should Fail and several songs on Senjutsu Dream Theater on Home Our New World Space Dye Vest and live version of Misunderstood Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane on Embryonic Journey from the Surrealistic Pillow album All Time Low on the biggest part of their discography Drop C Drop D C G c F A D D A D G B E One half step down from Drop D Utilized by bands like Guia Luz Negra Dir En Grey Your Demise Oceana Alter Bridge Alice in Chains on some songs like Them Bones or We Die Young A Day to Remember on the song It s Complicated Chevelle on Sci Fi Crimes Of Mice amp Men Sleeping With Sirens on their debut album With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear Bon Jovi Deftones on their Around the Fur album Evanescence Paramore Disturbed Theory of a Deadman Puddle of Mudd Sum 41 Linkin Park Three Days Grace On their songs Just Like You and The High Road Sevendust Breaking Benjamin primarily on the album Saturate and some songs Skillet Black Veil Brides Steel Panther on songs like 17 Girls in a Row or Gloryhole 10 Years Black Stone Cherry Saint Asonia Truckfighters Attila Early Fireball Ministry Memphis May Fire RED on End of Silence Nirvana on In Utero Blew live performances Been a Son the Nevermind album and also by System of a Down on their last two full albums Mezmerize and Hypnotize Also used by Lamb of God on their albums Wrath and VII Sturm und Drang and almost exclusively on their album Resolution Avenged Sevenfold Norma Jean Guns N Roses used this tuning on Better and Scraped from Chinese Democracy The Garden from Use Your Illusion I Ain t It Fun from The Spaghetti Incident and live performances of Slither Metallica used this tuning on their song Human off S amp M and on Dirty Window from their album St Anger Seether As I Lay Dying have used this tuning on a few songs Scorpions on Hour I Judas Priest on Lone Wolf Trivium used this tuning on their albums In Waves and Vengeance Falls and every 6 strings song recorded since they also play all of their 6 strings songs in this tuning in their live shows Van Halen on their 1981 song Unchained Godsmack on select songs from When Legends Rise and on their song Something Different the Presidents of the United States of America use guitars tuned to this tuning with the top three strings removed although on Freaked Out and Small regularly strung guitars were used Oceans Ate Alaska Tyler Bryant amp the Shakedown use this tuning on some songs like Heartland and Aftershock Helmet on I Know Speechless Overrated from Betty Unwound Throwing Punches from Size Matters and Spiritbox on 1016 The Mara Effect Pt 2 40 and Perennial 41 source source Drop C tuning listen Drop C C G c F A DOne full step down from Drop D Utilized by bands like A Day to Remember FTISLAND Biffy Clyro Sleeping With Sirens Swallow the Sun in all their albums the Ocean Collective in the Heliocentric Anthropocentric albums Slo Burn Bullet for My Valentine Evanescence Children of Bodom Disciple Demon Hunter Only on Demon Hunter Disturbed Avenged Sevenfold on the songs Radiant Eclipse and Victim As I Lay Dying Asking Alexandria on Reckless and Relentless Rammstein Nothing More Falling in Reverse Neck Deep Fozzy August Burns Red Mastodon on some songs Helmet since the Size Matters era Tonight Alive Converge System of a Down First three albums What Great Fangs Black Stone Cherry Chimaira since The Impossibility of Reason P O D Black Veil Brides Ill Nino Killswitch Engage Deftones in their album White Pony Disturbed Gojira mostly on The Way of All Flesh amp L Enfant Sauvage Metallica on St Anger Rob Zombie Bad Omens Megadeth on the songs Mission on Mars and Psychopathy the Faceless Nonpoint Atreyu Darkest Hour Nickelback Breaking Benjamin since We Are Not Alone Mudvayne Sick Puppies Three Days Grace Chevelle since Hats Off to the Bull Blessthefall Job for a Cowboy As Blood Runs Black Beartooth Johnny Cash on his cover of Hurt While She Sleeps Hellyeah Godsmack Born of Osiris when using 6 string guitars Periphery Cancer Bats Slipknot on their demo Mate Feed Kill Repeat Zakk Wylde Escape the Fate Alter Bridge Seether since Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces Dope Skillet Anberlin Nirvana on Blew Finding September on Summer Club and Let It Burn David Wilcox tuned the fourth string up one semitone for his initial studio recording of That s What the Lonely Is For from Big Horizon and Wage War Since Manic Drop B B F b E G C B G b E A D One and one half steps down from Drop D This tuning is most often used by modern rock and heavy metal bands Used by Art of Dying 42 Black Stone Cherry 43 DevilDriver on their self titled and The Fury of Our Maker s Hand albums 44 Disturbed on Immortalized Ill Nino on Till Death La Familia Limp Bizkit some songs Down 45 46 Machine Head tuned 40 cents sharp 47 Guns N Roses on Shackler s Revenge Mark Tremonti on Leave It Alone Giving Up Proof Decay All That I Got and Gone from the All I Was sessions as well as some songs from Cauterize and Dust 48 Projected 49 Rammstein Meine Tranen Angst and Dicke Titten Linkin Park on the songs Runaway and Dont Stay Sevendust primary tuning although several variations of them are also used 50 51 Slipknot 52 and Stone Sour 53 used by Chevelle on every album besides Point 1 and La Gargola Bring Me the Horizon and Spiritbox on The Mara Effect Pt 1 40 Drop A Drop B A F a D G C B F b E G CTwo full steps down from Drop D Utilized by bands such as A Day to Remember In Flames Hostility Issues Static X Motionless in White Bring Me the Horizon since Suicide Season Hellyeah August Burns Red On some songs the Ghost Inside While She Sleeps On some songs Beartooth On the Songs Afterall Burnout and Body Bag Disturbed on select songs from the album Evolution Amaranthe Breaking Benjamin since Phobia Parkway Drive Otep Memphis May Fire Bad Omens Like Moths to Flames Spineshank RED Bury Tomorrow since Earthbound Wage War the Acacia Strain and Erra Before switching to seven stringed guitars Bury Your Dead Eye Empire Dirge Within Remembering Never Metallica on the song The Unnamed Feeling from St Anger Chevelle on This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In and Vena Sera Also on Mars Simula the Amity Affliction Acid Bath on some songs Obey the Brave Fit for a King Darkest Hour Fozzy Evanescence 9oz of Nothing Sybreed For the Fallen Dreams and Sevendust in more recent material who have used variants of the tuning prior Drop A A E a D F B A E a D G BTwo and one half steps down from Drop D This tuning is most often used by death metal or deathcore musicians such as Betraying the Martyrs Carnifex Oceano Suicide Silence or Whitechapel which they use seven string guitars and tune down the seventh string a full step Utilized by bands like Nile the Acacia Strain Motograter Thrice Filter on the songs Columind and The Missing from The Amalgamut and Drug Boy and The Trouble with Angels from the album of the same name Jinjer Motionless in White Of Mice amp Men Norma Jean On Polar Similar the Devil Wears Prada on some songs Dead by April RED Ill Nino on Dead New World Slipknot on some songs Crowbar and Amon Amarth Make Them Suffer Brett Campbell of Pallbearer Devin Holt uses a 7 string Bring Me the Horizon on the songs Parasite Eve and 1x1 from Post Human Survival Horror the Ghost Inside on the songs Out of Control and This Is What I Know About Sacrifice Five Finger Death Punch and Parkway Drive on some songs from Deep Blue Trapt uses this tuning on their songs Hollow Man Waiting and Sound Off Sevendust on What You Are Sleeping With Sirens on their songs Medicine Devil in My Head Ghost and P S Missing You from their album How It Feels To Be Lost South Korean rock band FTISLAND also uses this tuning in some songs Drop G Drop A G D g C F A A E a D F B Three full steps down from Drop D Utilized by Hypocrisy since Virus AWS Viszlat Nyar Dead by April on some songs Metallica in the song Invisible Kid from St Anger Memphis May Fire Stone Sour on the song Red City from House of Gold amp Bones Part 2 Asking Alexandria on their self titled album Damien Deadson Love and Death Wage War on some songs and the Acacia Strain Staind also uses this tuning but with the 2nd string tuned up 1 2 step to emulate a 7 string guitar as well as several other modified variations of this such as one in which the 5th string is also dropped from D to C Periphery also uses this tuning on a 7 string guitar frequently G D g C F A D Drop G G D g C E AThree and one half steps down from Drop D Used by Darkest Hour on the song Wasteland Attack Attack Baroness on their first two EPs Sleeping With Sirens on the song Blood Lines FTISLAND on the song Shadows Dead by April on some songs and In Flames on the song Transparent from Reroute to Remain Pantera s song The Underground in America and Sandblasted Skin from their album The Great Southern Trendkill is in G g C F A D Drop G variation with D standard Soulfly used this tuning on Eye for an Eye on their self titled album although live performances of this song are now in A standard Drop F Drop G F C f B D G G D g B E A Four full steps down from Drop D or two full steps up from Drop D1 Limp Bizkit use a 4 string variant of the tuning F F B E on the songs Nookie and Full Nelson Architects F F B E G C Slipknot on the song Scissors Motionless in White on the song lt c0de gt ERRA Spiritbox Thornhill Void of Vision Rivers of Nihil Dayseeker We Came As Romans Veil of Maya Polaris on the song The Crossfire The Amity Affliction on the song Fade Away Volumes on songs such as Malevolent The Mixture and Feels Good Deftones on the album Saturday Night Wrist and Fit for a King on the song Louder Voice Drop F F C f A D G F C f B D GFour and one half steps down from Drop D or one and a half steps up from Drop D1 Used by Conan band for their entire discography 54 Used by Attack Attack on The Wretched off This Means War and Press F citation needed Used by Van Halen on Little Guitars off Diver Down citation needed Drop E E B e A C F E B e A D G Five full steps down from Drop D or one full step up from Drop D1 Another Variation can be mixed with a Drop A as follows E A e a D G B e modeled on an 8 string or E A e a D F B E A e a D Gb B on a seven string guitar Used by Starset on Horizons Loathe E A e a D F G and Humanity s Last Breath E B e A G A a Drop D Drop E D A d G C F E B e A C FFive and one half steps down from Drop D or one half step up from Drop D1 This can also be a Drop D standard octave variant tuning modeled on an 8 string D G d g C F A d Gravemind uses an altered version of Drop D which is a 6 string Drop A with the low D on their album Conduit Meshuggah also used Drop D for some of their songs e g Stengah Shed Drop D1 D A d G B ESix full steps one octave down from Drop D 8 string example D A d a d G B E Black Tongue uses this tuning Meshuggah also used it for Obsidian and This Spiteful Snake Drop C 1 Drop D 1 C G c F A D D A D G B E Six full steps one octave down from Drop C Drop D Used by Loathe C A E a D F G Drop C1 C G c F A DSix full steps one octave down from Drop C Drop C Drop D in standard variation C A D G B EStandard tuning but with the 6th string lowered one and a half steps Used by Sevendust tuned one and a half step down which goes as A F B E G C on some songs from Home through Alpha Drop C in standard variation C A D G B EStandard tuning but with the 6th string lowered two whole steps Used by Mark Tremonti on the song My Champion tuned down a half step Myles is in Open F tuning as well as Sevendust on the song Mountain tuned down one and a half steps which goes A F B E G C Also used by John Mayer on the song Neon and by Chino Moreno of Deftones on some songs such as Swerve City Leathers and Hearts Wires tuned down a full step A G C F A D This variation was also used by Periphery on Totla Mad from their Self Titled album and Frak the Gods on Icarus EP Drop B in standard variation B A D G b EClaimed to have been invented by guitarist Victor Griffin of Pentagram who tunes it 1 2 step down 55 Also used in the songs Rusty Cage Holy Water and Searching With My Good Eye Closed by Soundgarden on their Badmotorfinger album Cowboy Hat Not Leavin Yet and some of Silver Side Up by Nickelback Gasoline Shadow on the Sun Bring Em Back Alive and The Worm by Audioslave and Prison Sex by Tool Today is the Day have used it on every album since Temple of the Morning Star Shining use it on most of their album Blackjazz and Black Label Society used this on much of their early material often to emulate a 7 string guitar Used also by Silverchair in the songs One Way Mule and The Lever from their album Diorama and Stephen Brodsky used this tuning a half step down A G C F A D in Cave In and Mutoid Man Drop B E B E D G b eStandard tuning with the 6th and 5th string lowered two and a half steps down Used by Tool in the songs Parabol and Parabola Drop A in standard variation A a D G B E The 6th string is dropped to A while the other strings retain their standard tuning Used by Helmet on Biscuits for Smut Foo Fighters on Stacked Actors Opeth on the song Sorceress and the Melvins on Boris Used by Every Time I Die on the songs Indian Giver Fear and Trembling and Nothing Visible Ocean Empty A 7 string version of this tuning is used by Muse on their song Citizen Erased tuned A a D d G B E as well as on Supremacy which features a standard six string guitar Sevendust uses this tuning a half step down on Home Periphery uses this tuning but tuned 1 step down on Reptile The band Architects also use this tuning but tuned one and a half step down since their album Lost Forever Lost Together released in 2014 and Wage War tuned 2 steps down on several songs 56 Drop A in D standard variation A G C F a D Used by Mastodon on most of their first album Remission and on some songs on other albums Also utilized by Nothing More and Periphery primarily on more recent material Also used on occasion by Black Label Society who previously tuned it a half step up which Alter Bridge also utilizes on some of their songs such as Broken Wings Come to Life I Know it Hurts Still Remains Breath Again and All Hope is Gone Creed Architects all use this tuning tuned a half step down on their songs Bread of Shame Early Grave respectively Danish industrial metal band Raunchy used this tuning tuned one and a half step down F E A D f B on the song Dim the Lights and Run from the album A Discord Electric Drop G in C standard variation G F A D g C Used by Bring Me the Horizon on a few songs from their album Suicide Season Blacklist from There Is A Hell and heavy metal from amo 57 Wage War also utilize this tuning on several songs on their first three albums such as The River and Spineless off their album Blueprints Shifted editThese tunings are derived by systematic increases or decreases to standard tuning Lowered standard edit nbsp D tuning Derived from standard EADGBE all the strings are tuned lower by the same interval thus providing the same chord positions transposed to a lower key Lower tunings are popular among rock and heavy metal bands The reason for tuning down below standard pitch is usually either to accommodate a singer s vocal range or to get a deeper heavier sound 58 E tuning E A D G B E Half a step down from standard tuning Used by bands artists such as Jimi Hendrix Coheed and Cambria Black Sabbath Motorhead Cannibal Corpse Chris Barnes era Deicide Deftones Sweet Savage Dark Tranquillity Nirvana AFI Rise Against Failure Weezer Seether early songs Green Day Protest the Hero Kiss Our Lady Peace the Hellacopters Backyard Babies Disturbed on a few songs Guns N Roses Motion City Soundtrack Neil Young Van Halen Extreme Brand New Blind Guardian Firehouse Stryper Megadeth on the songs Angry Again and Diadems Youthanasia album and the tour supporting it MD 45 Metallica on the Load Reload and Garage Inc albums The God That Failed their cover of Killing Time in a 1985 live performance in Portland Oregon in a 1990 live performance with Guns N Roses and Sebastian Bach and in live performances of standard tuned songs since 1995 AC DC some songs and in live performances of standard tuned songs since 2008 Slayer Alcest Rage Against the Machine Budgie Stevie Ray Vaughan John Prine on The Singing Mailman Delivers and live performances of Angel from Montgomery from 1998 to 2020 Yngwie Malmsteen Dream Theater on Stream of Consciousness and The Root of All Evil Alice in Chains the Smashing Pumpkins the Killers Relient K Suede RED on Not Alone Beach House David Wilcox on Human Cannonball from Turning Point and current live performances of Saturday They ll All Be Back Again Ugly Kid Joe Third Day on I Can Feel It Die Arzte since Gerausch Skillet on A Little More Diamond Head on most songs on Lightning to the Nations 2020 and Vertical Horizon Tyler Bryant amp the Shakedown Finding September on History and Inhibitions Breaking Benjamin on Ladybug and many of their live cover songs and Royal Blood on songs like Typhoons and the B side off How Did We Get So Dark Cheap Affection Collective Soul has used this tuning and the Drop Db variant on many official recordings of songs and all live performances circa 1997 onward D tuning D G C F A DOne full step down from standard tuning Used by bands artists such as Motley Crue Nightwish Pantera 425 Hz Fu Manchu P O D Sepultura Dimmu Borgir Cradle of Filth Behemoth Insomnium Watain In Solitude Agalloch Inquisition Drive By Truckers Soulfly Holocaust Children of Bodom Since 1999 Symphony X Oceansize Death Decrepit Birth Dream Theater All That Remains Baroness Napalm Death Volbeat Seether on Country Song Exodus Gojira Hammerfall from 2009 today John Prine on Grandpa Was a Carpenter and some other songs from 1998 to 2020 Shadows Fall Mastodon Ghost Lordi Killswitch Engage and Kreator Used in a vast majority of songs by musician Elliott Smith and also in some songs by Johnny Cash including Ring of Fire and his covers of Sunday Mornin Comin Down and Cat s in the Cradle Also used in Nirvana s songs Come as You Are Lithium and Drain You Metallica in their songs Sad but True Devil s Dance Sabbra Cadabra It s Electric and Whiskey in the Jar as well some of their covers on The 5 98 E P Garage Days Re Revisited The Small Hours and Crash Course in Brain Surgery Dream No More The Thing That Should Not Be and in live performances of Jump in the Fire The God That Failed and Seek amp Destroy John Lennon on Working Class Hero Bullet for My Valentine on several songs on Scream Aim Fire Bob Dylan in live performances of All Along the Watchtower in the style of Jimi Hendrix the Damned on their cover of White Rabbit Blink 182 in Adam s Song in Doug Anthony All Stars live performances Diamond Head on their 2020 re recording of It s Electric John Fogerty Firehouse on re recorded acoustic version of Love of a Lifetime from 1996 album Good Acoustics and live performances since 2010 Stryper on the album The Final Battle and live performances since 2021 Extreme on live performances of the song More Than Words Chevelle on most of Point 1 excluding Mia and Anticipation Megadeth used this tuning for Prince of Darkness Risk 1999 and would switch to this tuning from E standard during concerts featuring this song in 1999 amp 2000 They have also used it for all concerts since circa Fall 2012 during the Countdown to Extinction 20th Anniversary tour and would go on to record all new albums since 2013 s Super Collider using this tuning C D tuning C F B E G C D G B E A D One and a half steps down Famously used by Black Sabbath s Tony Iommi in the 1970s as well as Carrie Brownstein Dimebag Darrell of Pantera On some tracks on The Great Southern Trendkill in 425 Hz Behemoth Eyehategod Decapitated Architects Dying Fetus Anata Corin Tucker of Sleater Kinney Between the Buried and Me except Laser Speed Limp Bizkit Machine Head tuned 40 cents sharp Down Suffocation Venom All That Remains Bolt Thrower Pete Loeffler of Chevelle on Wonder What s Next Billy Howerdel of A Perfect Circle and Ashes Divide Guns N Roses on Heartbreak Hotel and I Don t Care About You Attila Slayer on Gemini from Undisputed Attitude Diabolus In Musica the majority of God Hates Us All as well as Cult and Black Serenade from Christ Illusion and Stone Sour as well as former guitarist Jim Root s other band Slipknot on the Acoustic guitar on Snuff Also used by Kyuss on the Sons of Kyuss EP and on the songs Isolation Big Bikes and Stage III from Wretch John Prine downtuned most of his songs to this tuning for the rest of his life following a bout with throat cancer that took a toll on his voice Used by Metallica on the song Bad Seed from the album Reload and live performances of The Thing That Should Not Be and by blink 182 in Obvious Also used on Considered Dead and The Erosion of Sanity by Canadian technical death metal band Gorguts C tuning C F B E G C C F A D G CTwo full steps down from normal tuning Used by bands such as Queens of the Stone Age Kyuss Sleep Electric Wizard First Album Spiritual Beggars In Flames until Clayman the Black Dahlia Murder Cradle of Filth Hatebreed Bring Me the Horizon First Signs of Frost Dismember Dethklok Suffocation on Effigy of the Forgotten Immolation Hypocrisy 1992 1997 High on Fire Cold Dream Theater Arch Enemy since the Angela Gossow era Entombed Amaranthe Nails Nekrofilth Cataract Porcupine Tree on the songs Anesthetize Way Out of Here and Cheating the Polygraph and the Smashing Pumpkins B tuning B E A D G B B E A D F BTwo and a half steps down from standard tuning Used in Swedish death metal by bands such as At The Gates Dismember Hypocrisy 1994 2004 Edge of Sanity Entombed on Left Hand Path Grave Amon Amarth and Arch Enemy during the Johan Liiva era as well as Fear Factory first two albums before Dino Cazares switched to 7 string guitars Carcass Type O Negative Cathedral Pungent Stench used B from 1988 to 1990 including For God Your Soul For Me Your Flesh John Prine on live performance of Fish and Whistle from 1998 to 2020 Seventh Void Five Finger Death Punch Fleshgod Apocalypse Sepultura Soulfly Within Temptation Hatebreed Triptykon as well as Celtic Frost s last album Monotheist and guitarist Kirk Windstein of Crowbar Kingdom of Sorrow and Linkin Park on the songs With You and Runaway from Hybrid Theory A B tuning A D G C F A B E A D F B Three full steps from standard tuning Used by Electric Wizard Only on Dopethrone Adema Hypocrisy since Virus Dream Theater on some songs with baritone guitars Arch Enemy on some songs the Black Boris Cannibal Corpse Linkin Park A D G C F A on the songs Somewhere I Belong and Easier to Run from Meteora both songs performed live in Eb standard Morbid Angel on several songs starting with their album Covenant Father Befouled Sepultura Jeff Hanneman of Slayer on Here Comes the Pain from God Hates Us All and Not of This God from World Painted Blood Kerry King used a 7 string for those songs American Head Charge Nickelback on This Means War and Gotta Get Me Some from Here and Now and Nevermore when band switched to seven strings though a six string acoustic in this tuning was used on the song A Future Uncertain A tuning A D G C E A Three and a half steps down from standard tuning Used by Demilich Soulfly Themes Taproot Xibalba Yob Wind Rose John Prine on live performances of Quiet Man from 1998 to 2020 Dream Theater on some songs with baritone guitars Hypocrisy on Osculum Obscenum and the song Buried Bolt Thrower on Realm of Chaos album Dystopia Chat Pile 59 Arch Enemy on a few songs and on live performances of A tuned songs and their cover of Symphony of Destruction Korn and Fear Factory since Obsolete also uses the Standard A tuning but on a 7 string A D G C F A D G A tuning G C F B D G A D G B E A Four full steps down from standard tuning Utilized by Cannibal Corpse on some songs Used by death doom metal band Encoffination Also used by Mark Tremonti on the song In the Deep Myles Kennedy uses a 6 string guitar tuned to Drop Db in the song G tuning G C F A D G G C F B D GFour and a half steps down from standard tuning Used by the doom metal band Warhorse and the brutal death metal band Mortician and the sludge metal project Foreigns F G tuning F B E A C F G B E A D G Five full steps from standard tuning Used by the death metal band Disfiguring the Goddess F tuning F A D G C F F B E A C FFive and a half steps down from standard tuning Used by the deathgrind band Maruta the instrumental doom metal band Bongripper and the progressive metal band Meshuggah however the band uses 8 string guitars Octave tuning E A D G B ESix full steps one octave down from standard tuning The Low E has the same fundamental frequency as a bass guitar essentially the same standard tuning as a bass guitar but with a high B and E added to mimic a regular guitar This tuning is used on the Fender Bass VI and similar instruments Notably used by John Lennon and George Harrison with the Beatles Robert Smith of the Cure Jack Bruce of Cream and Deftones bassist Sergio Vega on their album Gore In his early days with Ronnie Hawkins future Band bassist Rick Danko was also seen with a Fender Bass VI This is the tuning Earth used on their seminal drone doom album Earth 2 Also used in some doom metal and sludge metal bands such as Wetlands and Thou Raised edit nbsp Terz tuning From standard EADGBE all the strings are tuned up by the same interval String tension will be higher Typically requires thinner gauge strings particularly the first string which could be as thin as six thousandths of an inch about the thickness of a single human hair A capo is typically preferred over these tunings as they do not increase neck strain etc The advantage of these tunings is that they allow an extended upper note range versus a capo used with standard tuning which limits the number of notes that can be played in some cases instruo B or E such as saxophones which were frequently encountered in early rock and roll music are more easily played when the accompanying guitar plays chords in the higher tuning If standard gauge strings are used the result is often a brighter or tighter sound this was a common practice for some bluegrass bands in the 1950s notably Flatt amp Scruggs F tuning F A D G C F F B E A C FHalf a step up from standard tuning Used in most of the music of Harry Chapin Joe Jackson and Johnny Cash for Love Buzz on Nirvana s Bleach album apparently by mistake according to Come As You Are Michael Azerrad 3 Doors Down on Here Without You a capo was probably used Vektor Soundgarden s Black Hole Sun The low E string was tuned to Eb D for a drop Eb D tuning Nickelback on their song When We Stand Together Burzum on his first 3 albums Immortal on Pure Holocaust John Fedowitz in his solo project Ceremony The Bangles on Hazy Shade of Winter and Social Distortion on Ring of Fire F G tuning F B E A C F G B E A D G One full step up from standard Primary tuning for the band The Chameleons Johnny Marr also used this tuning extensively with The Smiths British singer songwriter Dave Mason also plays in F Alex Lifeson of Rush used this tuning on the song The Big Money Tremonti uses a variation of this tuning where only the 6th string is raised to F while the rest of the guitar stays in standard tuning and then tuning down the whole guitar one and a half steps on the song Trust G tuning also known as Terz tuning sometimes spelled Tierce Third or Tertz all of which are acceptable G C F A D G G C F B D GOne and a half steps up from standard G A tuning G C F B D G A D G B E A Two full steps up from standard A tuning A D G C E ATwo and a half steps up from standard This is the standard tuning for the Lapstick travel guitar A B A D G C F A B E A D F B Three full steps up from standard Double dropped edit nbsp Double drop D tuning source source Double drop D tuning listen Similar to the dropped tunings except that both the 1st and 6th strings are dropped one full step Double Drop D D A D G B DStandard tuning but with the 1st and 6th strings dropped one full step Favored by Neil Young Has also been used by Lamb of God on some of their earlier songs America used a variation for Horse with No Name in which the 5th string is also dropped to E It was also used on Led Zeppelin s Going to California Double Drop C Drop D C G C F A C D A D G B D Same as Double Drop D but every string is dropped one half step Used by the acoustic rock band Days of the New Also used by Our Lady Peace on the song Starseed as well as Los Angeles based Alternative band Failure on several songs Also used by Tremonti on the song Fall Again as well as Myles Kennedy on the song Cry a River Mark is tuned to Drop C Double Drop C C G C F A COne full step down from Drop D Used by End and Sevendust on the song Seasons Double Drop B B F B E G B B G B E A B One and one half steps down from Drop D Used by Aaron Turner of Isis and used by Sevendust on the song Separate Double Drop A Drop B A F A D G A B F B E G B Two full steps down from Drop D Double Drop A A E A D F A A E A D G ATwo and one half steps down from Drop D Double Drop G Drop A G D G C F G A E A D F A Three full steps down from Drop D Double Drop G G D G C E GThree and one half steps down from Drop D Double Drop F Drop G F C F B D F G D G B E G Four full steps down from Drop D or two full steps up from Drop D1 Double Drop F F C F A D F F C F B D FFour and one half steps down from Drop D or one and a half steps up from Drop D1 Double Drop E E B E A C E E B E A D EFive full steps down from Drop D or one full step up from Drop D1 Double Drop D Double Drop E D A D G C D E B E A C E Five and one half steps down from Drop D or one half step up from Drop D1 Double Drop D1 Tuning D A D G B DSix full steps one octave down from Double Drop D Miscellaneous editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed July 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message Dad Gad edit Main article DADGAD source source DADGAD tuning listen D A d g a d DADGAD was developed by Davey Graham in the early 1960s when he was travelling in Morocco to more easily play along with Oud music Among the first to use this tuning were the folk blues guitarists of the 60s like Bert Jansch John Renbourn Martin Carthy and John Martyn It was many years later in the 1970s that it became established for accompanists of traditional music predominantly Scottish and Irish Due to this popularity it is sometimes referred to as Celtic tuning although this is misleading given its origin and its primary early use in a quite different field of music Often vocalized as Dad Gad DADGAD it is now common in Celtic music In rock music has been used in Led Zeppelin s Kashmir 8 Pierre Bensusan is another noted exponent of this tuning The post metal group Russian Circles also employ this tuning and also plays it tuned a half step down D A d g a d Four down tuned variations are used by the band Sevendust A Drop C variation or C G c f g c Also uses a variation where the lowest string is dropped to G on the song Chop A Drop C variation or C G c f g c used on the song Unraveling Also uses a variation where the lowest string is dropped to G used on some songs from Kill the Flaw and the song Life Deceives You a Drop B variation or B F B e f b and a Drop A variation or A F A d f a Neighboring tunings D A d e a e and C G c d g a have been used by Martin Carthy and D A d a a d was used by Dave Wakeling on the English Beat s 1983 Save It For Later and by My Bloody Valentine on the song Sometimes from Loveless 1991 Dad Dad edit source source DADDAD tuning listen D A d d a d Nicknamed Papa Papa DADDAD is common in folk music Irish Scottish and for the execution of a rhythm guitar in heavy alternative music on 6th on the third string at the same time To reach the tuning from DADGAD Open D or Open D Minor the G string is dropped to D so that the 3rd and 4th strings are tuned to the same pitch DADDAD tuning is sometimes used on Dobro guitars for rock and blues Notable users of this tuning include Billy McLaughlin and John Butler Cello Standard guitar edit C G d a b e Essentially a cello tuning with the deeper four strings in fifths and the two highest strings in standard guitar tuning Used on numerous Pavement songs including Cut Your Hair and by Foo Fighters on the song Weenie Beenie Karnivool tuning edit B F b g b e Hybrid tuning between drop B tuning and E standard Used by the band Karnivool for many of their songs Variation B F b f b e The hybrid tuning with the 3rd string lowered a half step to create a larger power chord Also used by Karnivool Mi compose edit E A d g b e Mi compose is a tuning commonly used for rhythm guitar in African popular music forms such as soukous and makossa 60 It is similar to the standard guitar tuning except that the d string is raised an entire octave This is accomplished by replacing the d string with an e string and tuning it to d Iris Tuning edit B D D D d dTuning used by Johnny Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls on the song Iris E A C F A C Sleeping Ute edit Tuning used by Grizzly Bear guitarist Daniel Rossen in Sleeping Ute the opening song of their album Shields Creates an F m7 E chord when strummed open Jose Gonzalez tuning edit D A D G B EThis is a tuning favored by the Swedish singer songwriter Jose Gonzalez He uses this on such songs as Crosses Heartbeats and Cycling Trivialities capo on second fret It is similar to the standard guitar tuning but the low E string is dropped to D and the G string is dropped a half step to F G Also used by artists such as M Ward Stephen Malkmus and Day Wave Dadd9 tuning edit D A D F A EThis tuning is used by Tonic in their song Soldier s Daughter with a capo on the 4th fret Periphery uses this tuning a full step down on the song Scarlet Mr Tom tuning edit D F A E F AThis tuning was made by songwriter composer Mr Tom Rawding during the creation of an original indie folk instrumental When You Stand By Me 61 The tuning is based on the Open D tuning Liberty tuning edit E A D g c e Promoted by Harvey Reid for use in combination with a partial capo as a system which is easier for children to learn Converge tuning edit C G C F G CUsed on the majority of Converge songs since Jane Doe Variation C F C F A CAnother tuning used by Converge notably used on the title track from Axe to Fall El Ten Eleven tuning edit E A D G B EUsed on the Kristian Dunn of El Ten Eleven Staind tuning edit Ab Db Ab Db Gb BbA combination of Drop Ab and Drop Db Used by Mike Mushok on many songs especially from Dysfunction and Break the Cycle Variation Gb Db Ab Db Gb BbThe previous tuning with the 6th string an additional step down used on the song Price to Play and for all but one song on the Self Titled album these songs are played live on a 7 string with a high Eb due to some leads being tracked in a higher tuning Microtonal tuning edit See also Microtonal music The open strings of a guitar can be tuned to microtonal intervals however microtonal scales cannot easily be played on a conventional guitar because the frets only allow for a chromatic scale of twelve equally spaced pitches each a semitone apart Certain microtonal scales particularly quarter tones can be played on a standard guitar solely by adjusting tunings but the distance between notes on the scale makes it somewhat impractical It is possible to play microtonal scales on a fretless guitar to convert a fretted guitar into a fretless or to make a custom neck with a specific microtonal fret spacing Guitars can also be refretted to a microtonal scale 62 On many refretted microtonal guitars the frets are split so that the tuning of each string is independent from the others To enable an adjustable microtonal tuning there exist guitars with frets that can be moved across the fingerboard 63 64 Extended techniques such as the 3rd bridge technique slide guitar and prepared guitar techniques can be used to produce microtonality without severe modification to the instrument Guitar tunings inspired by other Instruments edit In his on line guide to alternative tunings for six string guitars William Sethares mentions several that are inspired by instruments other than guitars for example balalaika tuning E A D E E A cittern tuning C G C G C G Dobro tuning G B D G B D This section possibly contains original research Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations Statements consisting only of original research should be removed March 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message Renaissance lute tuning E A d f b e This tuning may also be used with a capo at the third fret to match the common lute pitch G c f a d g This tuning also matches standard vihuela tuning and is often employed in classical guitar transcriptions of music written for those instruments such as for instance La Cancion Del Emperador and Diferencias Sobre Guardame Las Vacas by Renaissance composer Luis de Narvaez Five string guitar tunings editWhen the guitar evolved from the renaissance lute in the 18th century it was a five string instrument baroque guitar Today five string guitars are common in Brazil where they are known as guitarra baiana and are typically tuned in 5ths Schecter Guitar Research produced a production model five string guitar called the Celloblaster in 1998 65 A five string tuning may be necessary in a pinch when a string breaks on a standard six string usually the high E and no replacement is immediately available Some basic five string tunings include Standard E A d g bThe standard tuning without the top E string attached Alternative variants are easy from this tuning but because several chords inherently omit the lowest string it may leave some chords relatively thin or incomplete with the top string missing the D chord for instance must be fretted 5 4 3 2 3 to include F the tone a major third above D Baroque guitar standard tuning a D g b e The predecessor of today s six string classical guitar was the five string baroque guitar tuned as the five high strings of a six string guitar with the A raised one octave High C E A d g c Standard tuning with the B tuned a half step higher to C to emulate a six string bass guitar minus the low B This is an all fourths tuning Celloblaster or Guitello C G d a e An all fifths tuning as used on cello or mandolin extended to five strings Used by the noise rock band Lightning Bolt and by Jeffrey McFarland Johnson on his Bach Cello Suites album 66 Baritone E A d f bIn this tuning the fourth G string is lowered a half step thus recreating the intervals between the top five strings lowered a perfect fourth Though chords can easily and more fully be played from this tuning it sometimes results in awkward inversions a relatively minor problem if the five string is played in an ensemble with a bass guitar E A c f bSimulates the top four strings followed by the second from bottom string on top raised a whole step the F representing both the top and bottom E It makes playing in the key of A major easier though chord fingerings have to be altered unless the strings are rearranged to F B E A C Open G tuning G d g b d Some slide bottleneck guitarists omit the bottom E string when playing in open G to have the root note as the tonic This tuning is used by Keith Richards Open E 5 tuning E B e b e This is achieved by removing the fourth G string tuning both Es and the B down a half step and the A and D strings up a half step This creates a five string power chord Extended range guitar tunings editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed July 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message Seven string edit Similar to five string bass guitar tuning seven string tuning allows for the extra string a fourth lower than the original sixth string This allows for the note range of B standard tuning without transposing E standard guitar chords down two and a half steps down Baritone 7 string guitars are available which features a longer scale length allowing it to be tuned to a lower range Standard 7 string tuning B E A d g b e Standard tuning for a seven string guitar Used by Fear Factory In This Moment Animals as Leaders Unearth Nickelback on the song Burn It To The Ground and more recent material Decapitated Trivium band on much of Shogun and The Crusade album Dream Theater since Awake Crossfade on some songs Hypocrisy Lacuna Coil and All That Remains on some songs Wormed John Prine also used it on performances of Fish and Whistle from 1998 to 2020 to accommodate the permanent change in his voice following his battle with throat cancer Drop D 7 string tuning D D A d g b e This is the standard seven string tuning with the low B string raised to D and lower E string dropped to D The Drop C variation of this tuning C C G C F A D was used by James Hetfield on an ESP 7 String Guitar when Metallica were recording the song Some Kind Of Monster from the album St Anger Drop A 7 string tuning A E A d g b e This is the standard seven string tuning with the low B string dropped to A Standard Choro tuning C E A d g b e Standard seven string tuning for Brazilian choro Drop D B 7 string tuning B D A d g b e Standard seven string tuning with the low E dropped to D which results in a minor 3rd interval between the two lowest strings of B and D Used by Ed Sloan of Crossfade Also used by Animals as Leaders on the song CAFO A flat variation of this tuning is used by Periphery on the song Racecar Drop D A 7 string tuning A D A d g b e Seven string tuning with the low E string dropped to D and a low A added below Used extensively by Dir En Grey since the album Dum Spiro Spero as well as the song Obscure from the album Vulgar Also used by Stam1na Thirds tuning E G c e g c e Same range as standard six string Allows over two full chromatic octaves without changing position slides or bends All fourths tuning B E A d g c f Expands the major third between the second and third strings extending range a half step higher Russian Tuning D G B D g b d6 string Open G tuning with additional 5th B string Was a standard tuning for classic 7 string guitars in Russia in the 19th to 20th centuries Lower edit A B tuning A D G c f a d B E A d g b e Half a step down from standard used by bands such as Meshuggah in their earlier days Jeff Loomis now formerly of Nevermore Cannibal Corpse mid career Hypocrisy Adema American Head Charge Sonata Arctica since Winterheart s Guild Mushroomhead Korn in Neidermeyer s Mind demo album Revocation Dir En Grey since Dum Spiro Spero After The Burial Chad Kroeger of Nickelback on the song This Means War Ryan Peake used a six string Slayer on War Zone and Here Comes the Pain from God Hates Us All also Not of This God from World Painted Blood Trivium from Silence in the Snow onwards and all live performances of songs previously written on standard tuned seven string guitars Dream Theater used this tuning on Paralyzed from the album Distance Over Time A tuning A D G c f a d A full step down from standard Used by bands such as Korn Delain Paradise Lost Dream Theater on False Awakening Suite and Illumination Theory from the self titled album VUUR Obscura ReVamp Hypocrisy on much of their self titled album Job for a Cowboy on Sun Eater Knocked Loose from A Different Shade of Blue onwards and Fear Factory G A tuning G C F B e g c A D G B e a d One and one half steps down from standard Used by bands such as Deftones on their self titled album and Beware Korn on the song Alone I Break but on 14 string guitars Also used by Mark Tremonti on the song Show Me A Leader Myles uses a 6 String guitar tuned to D Standard and Spiritbox on Electric Cross G tuning G C F A d g c G C F B e g c Two full steps down from standard tuning Used by Vildhjarta G C F A D G c and Luc Lemay of Gorguts 67 F G tuning F B E A d f b G B E A d g bTwo and one half steps down from standard Used by Danish band Mnemic in the albums Passenger Sons of the System and Mnemesis Fear Factory also used this tuning for their cover of Wiseblood s 0 0 Where Evil Dwells while their all other songs tuned in F G were played with eight string guitars F tuning F A D G c f a F B E A d f b Three full steps down from standard Used by Suicide Silence on the song Witness The Addiction Crystal Lake and Meshuggah during the recording of Nothing The songs are played live using 8 string guitars E tuning E A D G c e aThree and a half steps down from standard F Tuning with Low E E A D G c f a E B E A d f b Used by Meshuggah on Stengah Perpetual Black Second Glints Collide and Organic Shadows from the Nothing album and on Marrow from the album Koloss although the other guitar was in F The songs are now performed on 8 String Guitars D E tuning D G C F B d g E A D G B e a Four full steps down from standard Used by Meshuggah on the song Nebulous from the album Nothing Originally recorded on 7 String Guitars tuned down the band switched to 8 String Guitars shortly after the album was released The band play the song live a full step up from the original in F Standard Tuning on 8 String Guitars D tuning D G C F A d g D G C F B d gFour and one half steps down from standard C D tuning C F B E A c f D G B E A d g Five full steps down from standard C tuning C F A D G c f C F B E A c fFive and one half steps down from standard Octave Tuning B E A D G B eSix full steps one octave down from standard tuning The open C tuning for 7 string guitar was Devin Townsend s preferred tuning for the extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad GCGCGCE used on their last two albums Also used on most of Synchestra and Ziltoid the Omniscient Planet of the Apes from Deconstruction War Princess from Z Failure from Transcendence and Monuments of Glitch from The Puzzle Higher edit High A E A d g b e a Standard tuning with a high A instead of a low B Because of the high pitch of the A string it usually requires a multi scale fingerboard fanned frets to provide enough tension C tuning C F A d g c f C F B e g c f Half a step up from standard used by Eddie Rendini during his time in Cold C tuning C F B e a c f The whole step up from standard This tuning was used by Wes Borland with high E string being lowered to C C F B e a c c on the first two Limp Bizkit records Dropped edit These tunings have the lowest string or other strings tuned one full step lower allowing for chord structures similar to six string drop tunings Drop B variations B F B E A C F B F B E G C F B G B E A D G a tuning which imitates the standard drop B tuning of a 6 string electric guitar but with a high F for soloing Used by bands such as All Shall Perish Decapitated Unearth and Assemble the Chariots Drop A Drop Bb variations A F A D G C F A F A D G C F tuning combining 6 string Drop A with a high F string half step above Drop A Used by TesseracT and Monuments A F A D f a d Drop A A E A D G B E A combination of standard 6 string tuning and a 7th string dropped one full step for power chords used by deathcore bands such as Suicide Silence Oceano Thy Art Is Murder Fit For An Autopsy Chelsea Grin Carnifex and Whitechapel as well as other bands such as Lacuna Coil Emmure Nile Light the Torch Betraying the Martyrs Ice Nine Kills Devin Holt of Pallbearer Brett Campbell uses a 6 string Blotted Science New Years Day In This Moment Chimaira on Pass Out of Existence and Crown of Phantoms and occasionally Scar Symmetry King 810 Dry Kill Logic Eldest 11 December In Red A Fall To Break and CFO on some songs Also used by Nickelback on Edge of a Revolution Get Em Up and For The River DragonForce on their song Three Hammers from their album Maximum Overload and Tallah Drop A alternatively A E A D F B E The same as drop A tuning for a 6 string on the low strings while retaining a high E In effect converts a 7 string into a drop A baritone guitar but with standard tuning s soloing capability Used by Lorna Shore Volumes and Whitechapel on the song This Is Exile Drop G Drop A G D G C F A D A E A D G B E One half step down from standard Drop A Used by bands such as Trivium on some songs from Silence in the Snow The Sin and the Sentence and What the Dead Men Say album Destrophy TesseracT G F A D f a d 3TEETH After The Burial I Declare War Impending Doom Within the Ruins In Hearts Wake Shokran Currents Erra Thy Art Is Murder on the song Slaves Beyond Death Emmure on the song Flag Of The Beast Pitch Shifted from Drop A Periphery and Invent Animate Jim Johnston used this tuning for the song I Bring the Darkness End of Days and Tallah on Overconfidence Drop G G D G C F A DA full step from standard Drop A used by such bands as Molotov Solution Impending Doom Emmure on the song Protoman Chelsea Grin Attack Attack on their album This Means War Any Given Day Fit for an Autopsy Chimaira on some songs from Pass Out of Existence Knocked Loose Whitechapel Thy Art Is Murder on the song Human Target and Eternal Suffering and Born of Osiris since their album The Discovery Drop F Drop G F C F B E G C G D G B E A D One and one half steps down from standard Drop A Used by Deftones on their Saturday Night Wrist album Rivers of Nihil Shokran Volumes Spiritbox Erra on some songs from Neon and ERRA and Thornhill Drop F F C F A D G C F C F B E G C Two full steps down from standard Drop A This tuning is used on three tracks on Attack Attack s album This Means War The Hopeless The Abdu ction and The Wretched The bands DVSR Northlane F B F B E G C 3TEETH on Metawar The Acacia Strain 8 string guitars Vildhjarta F C F A D G C Aversions Crown 8 string guitars Reflections Carnifex 8 string guitars and Conan use this tuning as well Triumphant Return uses a variation of this tuning F C G C F A D Drop E1 E B E A D F B E B E A D G BTwo and one half steps down from standard Drop A Used by Oceano Currents and Erra on their most recent singles A variant of this tuning is used by Vildhjarta E C F A D G C On their album Masstaden under vatten a Pitch Shifter is heavily utilized and Northlane E A E A D F B On Vultures and Paradigm on Alien and Abomination and Inamorata on Obsidian Drop D1 Drop E1 D A D G C F A E B E A D F B Three full steps down from standard Drop A A variation of this tuning is used by Northlane since the Alien album E A E A D F B Drop D1 D A D G C E AThree and one half steps down from standard Drop A Used by Black Tongue Northlane on Eclipse and Dark Solitaire D G D G C E A and Spiritbox on Yellowjacket Drop C1 Drop D1 D A D G B E A C G C F B D G Four full steps down from standard Drop A Drop C1 C G C F A D G C G C F B D GFour and one half steps down from standard Drop A Used by Within the Ruins on the album Phenomena with the variation C F c f A D G Drop B0 B F B E A C F B G B E A D G Five full steps down from standard Drop A Six full steps one octave down from a baritone Drop B guitar Drop A Drop B A F A D G C F B F B E A C FFive and one half steps down from standard Drop A Drop A0 tuning A E A D G B ESix full steps one octave down from standard Drop A Drop G 0 tuning G D G C F A D One octave below drop G Used by American deathcore band Anzu G A Standard G A D G C F A 6 String A tuning with a low G1 on the bottom Used by Crystal Lake 68 since 2015 Alternate Drop A0 Tuning A D A D G E E 6 string Drop D with an low A but an octave lower with the high B string tuned to the same E as the 1st string Used by Admiral Angry where they took 5 string bass guitars and converted them into 7 string guitars Eight string edit A continuation of the seven string guitar the eight string guitar adds another string a perfect fourth lower than the low B of the seven string guitar This additional low F string is just a whole step up from a bass guitars low E string Standard 8 string tuning F B E A D G B E Standard eight string tuning Used by Scar Symmetry on the song The Three Dimensional Shadow from the album Holographic Universe album and Mechanical Soul Cybernetics from the album Dark Matter Dimensions Deftones on the Diamond Eyes album Periphery Dream Theater on Awaken The Master The Acacia Strain on the song Unabomber Volumes band Fear Factory on Mechanize Metallic Division God Eater and Soul Hacker and by Devil You Know on some songs Lower edit F tuning F B E A d g b e Half a step down from standard tuning Used famously by Meshuggah as well as After The Burial Butcher Babies and Carnifex on some songs Galactic Pegasus uses a variation of this tuning with the 7th string tuned down to A mostly used on the Pariah EP E tuning E A D G c f a d One full step down from standard tuning Used by Meshuggah on Stengah Perpetual Black Second Glints Collide and Organic Shadows from the album Nothing and Korn on their Untitled album and on songs Illuminati and Way Too Far from their The Path of Totality album E tuning E A D G B e a d One and a half steps down from standard tuning Used by Meshuggah on Nebulous from the album Nothing and Dissipate on their Tectonics EP D tuning D G C F a d g c Two full steps down from standard tuning D tuning D G B E a d g b Two and a half steps down from standard tuning A tuning A D G C F A d gThree and a half steps down from standard tuning Higher edit High A tuning B E A d g b e a Standard seven string tuning with a high a Used by Rusty Cooley All fourths tuning F B E A d g c f Regular tuning which extends range a half step higher Dropped edit Drop E 8 string tuning E B E A D G B EA combination of standard 7 string tuning and the 8th string dropped one full step from F to E Allows to play in the range of a standard electric bass as well as one finger power chords Used by Animals as Leaders on most songs 69 and Whitechapel on the songs Devolver and Breeding Violence from A New Era of Corruption Also used by Deftones on Koi No Yokan and Gore Allegaeon and Emmure on the song N I A News in Arizona An open variation of this tuning is used by Hacktivist with 3rd and 4th strings tuned a whole step up to A and E respectively E B E A E A B E Also used by Born of Osiris on the songs Silence the Echo and Crossface Chelsea Grin on more recent material and by Carcosa Fractalize also used this tuning on Visions from the Phophet Of Despair EP and Sightless from the Immersion album Drop A E 8 string tuning E A E A D G B EA combination of 7 string drop A tuning and an 8th string dropped one full step from F to E allowing both power chords rooted on A and easy fingering with the E a fourth below This is the tuning of the lowest two strings of a bass along with all strings of a standard 6 string guitar in standard tuning It is used by Rings Of Saturn on the album Lugal Ki En and Mick Gordon on much of his work on the DOOM and DOOM Eternal soundtracks notably Rip And Tear BFG Division and Meathook Drop A E variation E A E A D F B EA variation on Drop E A with the G flattened one half step to F this tuning is identical to 6 string Drop A with two E strings added one above and one below Like Drop E A this tuning allows easy fingering on the E since it is a standard fourth interval below the A It also provides three high strings a fourth apart instead of the usual two The tuning is used by Infant Annihilator on their albums The Elysian Grandeval Galeriarch and The Battle of Yaldabaoth Drop E D 8 string tuning E B E A D G B E Half a step down from drop E tuning Used by Meshuggah in the album Catch Thirty Three in the song Shed and used by Emmure in the album Speaker of the Dead in the song Word of Intulo Also used by After the Burial in the song To Carry You Away off of the album In Dreams and the song To Challenge Existence from the album Evergreen The band Ion Dissonance used a variation of this tuning D G C F C F A D 70 from Cursed onwards Drop D 8 string tuning D A D G C F A DOne full step down from drop E Used by Meshuggah on the song Obsidian D A D G C F A D Also used by Issues in the song Tapping Out Reflections on the Willow album Enterprise Earth along with some altered variations of the tuning and Mick Gordon on few tracks of the DOOM Eternal soundtrack Drop D G variation D G D G C E A D Combination of 6 string Drop G with two D strings added one above and one below Used by industrial and djent composer E M M P Drop C 8 string tuning C G C F B E G C One and a half steps down from drop E Used by Enox Issues on the song Downfall Fractalize on Prophet Of Despair Void and most of the Immersion album Although they use an altered version of the tuning to utilize the dissonant voicings C G C F B E G A Galactic Pegasus used this tuning on Rhetoric Drop C 8 string tuning C G C F A D G CTwo full steps down from Drop E Used by bands like Bound In Fear Distant some songs on the Aeons of Oblivion album False Images Black Tongue on their album Nadir Skyburial Vyletongue Terror District Lowlife and Instill Terror Drop C A 8 string tuning C A E A D G B E Standard 8 string tuning with the 8th string dropped 5 half steps from F to C and the 7th string dropped one full step from B to A this tuning is used by Animals as Leaders on the songs New Eden and Physical Education using a guitar with two extra frets on the 8th and the 7th string Also used by Kevin Sherwood On his songs Pareidolia amp Coming Home from the Call of Duty Nazi Zombie mode Drop C B 8 string tuning C B E A D G B E Standard 8 string tuning with the 8th string dropped 5 half steps to C Used by Periphery on Hell Below Drop E Open Tuning E B E B E F B E3rd string half a step down 4th amp 5th strings a whole step up Used by The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza in Danza III and IV Drop A A 8 string tuning A A D G C F A D F Standard 8 String tuning with the 8th string dropped another 7 half steps Used by Meshuggah on Spasm on the album Nothing When the song was originally recorded it was originally recorded on 7 String Guitars tuned A A D G C F A Due to the loose tension on the lowest string Marten and Fredrik only played the lowest string Open D Tuning D A D A D F A D3rd string half a step down The eighth and seventh string is tuned down two full steps the sixth string is tuned down a full step The fifth and fourth strings are left alone and the two highest strings are tuned down a full step This tuning has been used by Dean Murphy in some of his songs Nine string edit A continuation of the eight string guitar the nine string guitar adds a string lower or higher Standard 9 string tuning C F B E A d g b e Used by Mick Gordon for the Doom soundtrack and by Animals As Leaders for Private Visions of the World Also used by Deftones on the album Ohms Lower edit C tuning C F A D G c f a d One half step from standard tuning B0 tuning B E A D G c f a dOne full step from standard tuning Gives the range of a five string electric bass as well as a 6 string guitar in D tuning A 0 Tuning A D G C F b e g c A step and a half step from standard tuning Higher edit High A F B E A d g b e a Dropped edit Drop E B 9 string tuning B E B E A d g b eGives the range of a five string electric bass as well as a seven string electric guitar in standard tuning Used by Rings of Saturn for their song The Husk and Andrew Baena on How to Sink Drop B 9 string tuning B F B E A d g b e9 string guitar in standard tuning with the lowest string dropped two half steps down to B0 the same note as on the lowest string of a 5 string electric bass Used by Rob Scallon for his song Rogue and Andrew Baena on some songs such as Massassi Fractalize used this tuning on Fault Lines from the Immersion album although they recorded it on 8 String Guitars Double Drop A A F A D G c f a d 9 String Standard down a half step and then drop tuned from C to A 0 A variation of this tuning is used by Fractalize on the song Instant from the Immersion but they use 8 String Guitars The tuning used on the song is A E A D G c f f Double Drop A A E A E A d g b eThis is the 7 string drop A tuning with another E and A string added one octave lower Used by Rings of Saturn and Akuma by Galactic Pegasus This tuning is also used by Fractalize on the songs Suneater on the Prophets Of Despair EP and on Fragment on the Immersion album They use 8 String Guitars Drop A 9 string tuning A E A D G c f a dStandard 9 string tuning tuned one whole step down and the lowest string dropped another whole step A variant of this tuning is used by Josh Travis of Emmure A D A D C 16 cents sharp C G G E Mick Gordon also uses this tuning on the DOOM 2016 soundtrack for a couple tracks notably Flesh and Metal A D A D A D G B E 71 also a variation used by American deathcore band nitheful A E A D A D G B E on their most recent album release creation ov god Also used by Andrew Baena on his video What If Djent 2019 Tuned Down A D A D G C F A D Double Drop G G D G C F b e g c Used by the band Carthage on their song Years And Darkness from their 2012 album Salt The Earth Double Drop G G D G C F a d g c An alternate version was used by Andrew Baena on the video What If Djent 2019 Tuned Down G C G C F a d g c He used a pitch shifter on his 9 String Guitar which was tuned to A D A D G C F A D Drop F 9 string tuning F C F A D g c f a Used by American deathcore band Anzu 72 Drop F Variation F C F C F A D G C This tuning is exactly like the previously mentioned A E A E A D G B E tuning but 2 whole steps lower Used by the Vocaloid metal band One Minute Winter Other edit After The Burial 9 string tuning C F A D G c f a d Standard 9 string tuning with the top 8 strings down a half step Used by After The Burial on songs Pennyweight Neo Seoul A Wolf Amongst Ravens and Mire Joshua Travis 9 string tuning A D A D C 16 C G Ab Eb Used in Glass Cloud on The Royal Thousand and in Emmure on various songs from Look at Yourself and Hindsight Ten string edit As a classical instrument introduced by Narciso Yepes ten string classical guitar of Yepes the ten string guitar adds four sympathetic strings to the classical guitar Yepes standard tuning F G A C E A d g b e As a continuation of the nine string guitar the ten string guitar adds another lower or higher string to the standard tuning Standard continued 4ths G C F B E A d g b e High A C F B E A d g b e a Drop F 10 string tuning F C F B E A d g b e 10 string guitar in standard tuning with the lowest string dropped two steps from G to F which is a fourth lower than the low B string on a five string bass Double Drop B B F B E G e a d g b This tuning was used by the deathcore band When Blood Falls Down Triple Drop C C G C B E A d g b eAlso known as C0 tuning Drop C0 tuning it uses the standard tuning of a 7 string guitar with the 8th 9th and 10th string dropped by 4 steps from double drop E Due the very low tuning the bottom strings require very heavy strings Standard bass plus standard guitar standard E A D g b e tuning for the top six strings and standard E A G D bass tuning for the bottom four strings It is set as a factory tuning for the Agile Septor 1030 Coma Cluster Void tuning C F G E F B C G C D An extremely dissonant tuning used by the band Coma Cluster Void 73 Eighteen string edit A special extended range electric guitar made by Ormsby Guitars for Jared Dines for the Djent 2018 event as today 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