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B tuning

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

Bands

Six-String Version

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

• 3D House Of Beef
• Crowbar
• Soilwork
• Amon Amarth
• Cryptopsy
• Electric Wizard
• Carcass
• Hypocrisy
• Cathedral
• Despised Icon
• Iron Monkey
• Pro-Pain
• Type O Negative
• Demon Hunter
• At The Gates
• The Absence
• Vehemence
• Nickleback
• Soulfly
• Mudvayne
• Kataklysm
• Epica
• Evanescence
• The Project Hate MCMXCIX

Seven-String Version

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

• Dream Theater - John Petrucci
• Morbid Angel
• Hypocrisy
• Steve Vai
• Fear Factory
• Linkin Park (On the songs "With You" & "Runaway")
• Zero Hour
• Trivium
• All Shall Perish
• Unearth
• Epica

See also

• List of guitar tunings
• Guitar tuning
• Dropped B