# 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 several different types of metal bands.
Some bands use a tuning known as "drop A tuning", where they drop the low B to A, so the tuning for a 7-string guitar is as follows A1-E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4. Also, for a 6-string guitar, drop A tuning is achieved by tuning all strings down a 4th with the lowest string tuned 1 additional step down as follows A1-E2-A2-D3-F#3-B3. This is a "drop 1" tuning in the key of B (i.e. tune the whole guitar down a perfect fourth from standard tuning, then tune the 6th string a whole step down).

## Used by

* 200 Stab Wounds (7-string guitars)
* A Day to Remember (some songs)
* Aborted
* The Absence
* Aeon (7-string guitars)
* Aghora (7-string guitars) (on the album Aghora (album))
* Allegaeon (7-string guitars)
* All Shall Perish
* Alterbeast
* Amaranthe (since Massive Addictive)
* Amenra
* Amon Amarth (on most albums)
* Amputated
* Anacrusis
* Anal Cunt
* ANTISMA
* Anathema
* Angel Vivaldi (7-string guitars)
* Animals as Leaders (On most of their first album, 7-string guitars)
* Arch Enemy (On their first three albums: Black Earth, Stigmata and Burning Bridges; and a few songs from their more recent albums)
* Arctic Monkeys (If You Were There, Beware; Alex Turner uses a baritone guitar)
* Arcturus
* Armagedda
* Asking Alexandria (some songs)
* At the Gates
* Attack Attack! (on the album self-titled Album)
* Augury
* Avatar (from Black Waltz onwards)
* BABYMETAL
* Bal-Sagoth
* Battlelore
* Behemoth
* Benighted
* Biomechanical (7-string guitars on the album)Cannibalised
* Black Midi
* Black Label Society (on "13 Years of Grief" from the album Stronger than Death)
* Bloodbath
* Blood Has Been Shed
* Blood Red Throne (on the album Altered Genesis)
* Blunt Force Trauma
* Bongzilla
* Bring Me the Horizon (on their album Count Your Blessings)
* Brujeria
* Brutart
* Burial Invocation
* Cannabis Corpse
* Cannibal Corpse (7-string guitars)
* Carpathian
* Carach Angren
* Cavalera Conspiracy (on the album Blunt Force Trauma and some songs on the album Inflikted)
* Carajo (B flat tuning)
* Carcass
* Cathedral (on the albums Forest of Equilibrium, The Ethereal Mirror, Statik Majik, and The Garden of Unearthly Delights)
* Celtic Frost (on "Monotheist" and live performances during 2000s)
* Cephalic Carnage
* Coal Chamber (BEADGB, although some songs used drop A)
* Coheed and Cambria (Key Entity Extraction II: Hollywood the Cracked, Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant)
* Crowbar
* Cryptopsy
* Dave Matthews Band (On "You Never Know", “I Did It” and “The Space Between”)
* Decapitated (On the Blood Mantra album)
* Despised Icon
* The Devil Wears Prada
* Dismember
* Divine Heresy (7-string guitars)
* DragonForce (7-string guitars, except for the song "Three Hammers")
* Dream Theater (7-string guitars) (used on many songs, including "Lie", "Caught in a Web" and "The Mirror" from Awake; the 1994 version of "To Live Forever"; "A Change of Seasons"; "Just Let Me Breathe" from Falling into Infinity; "Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity" from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, and most songs from the Twelve-step Suite)
* Drowning Pool
* Edenbridge (7-string guitars) (on some songs from their first five albums)
* Edge Of Sanity
* Éjfény
* Electric Wizard
* Eluveitie (on many songs)
* Emperor (on the album Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise)
* Engulfed (7-string guitars)
* Entombed (on their album Left Hand Path)
* Epica (on The Divine Conspiracy and all subsequent albums)
* Eucharist
* Evanescence (on "Going Under")
* Exhumed
* Fallujah (7-string guitars)
* Fear Factory (used B on a six-string prior to Dino Cazares' 1996 switch to Ibanez, from whom he began 7-string guitars.)
* Five Finger Death Punch
* Fleshgod Apocalypse
* Gemini Syndrome
* Godflesh (used on the Godflesh EP and the Streetcleaner, Us and Them, and Hymns LPs
* Grave
* Graveworm
* Hail of Bullets
* Haken (7/8-string guitars)
* Halestorm (drop A, on the song "I Am the Fire")
* HIM (on many songs)
* Hunting Humans
* Hypocrisy (along with drop A on all albums up from The Fourth Dimension until The Arrival, after which A# Standard and Drop G# are used)
* I Killed The Prom Queen
* Illdisposed (All albums up until Burn Me Wicked)
* Iron Monkey
* Iwrestledabearonce
* Joe Bonamassa (on "The Ballad of John Henry")
* John Prine (on "The Late John Garfield Blues" and "Fish and Whistle" since 1998)
* Jungle Rot
* Kataklysm
* Kingdom of Sorrow
* King's X (along with drop A, on Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous and most subsequent albums)
* Kenn Nardi
* Kreator (some songs on the album "Renewal")
* Krisiun
* Kyuss (some songs on Wretch (album))
* Lacuna Coil (7-string guitars)
* Lead Belly was rumored to use this tuning in a 12-string variation.
* Leprous (7-string guitars)
* Linkin Park (BEADGB. Used on live performances of the songs "Runaway" and "With You" from 2003 onwards; originally recorded on standard tuned 7-string guitars)
* Living Sacrifice (on the album Inhabit)
* Massacre (on Back from Beyond)
* Mnemic
* The Monolith Deathcult
* Muse (on "Won't Stand Down" and "Kill or Be Killed")
* MyChildren MyBride
* Ne Obliviscaris (7-string guitars)
* Negură Bunget (7-string guitars)
* Nekrogoblikon (7-string guitars)
* Nickelback (some songs)
* Novembre
* Oomph!
* Otto Mann
* Pain of Salvation (7-string guitars)
* Parkway Drive
* Pelican
* Pomegranate Tiger (7-string guitars)
* Pro-Pain
* Profiles in Terror (7-string guitar and 6 guitar B tuned)
* Raintime (7 string guitars)
* Rammstein (on "Dicke Titten")
* Rose Funeral
* Satariel (7-string guitars)
* Scar Symmetry (7 string guitars, on Symmetric in Design and Pitch Black Progress; have since switched to Drop A tuning)
* Seventh Void
* Sepultura (from Roots onward)
* Seringai
* Skinless
* Shadow Over Innsmouth
* Slayer (some songs)
* Sleep (on their new single "Leagues Beneath")
* Slipknot
* Soilwork
* Soulfly
* Spawn of Possession (6- & 7-string guitars; Jonas Bryssling plays a 6 string, while Jonas Karlsson and Christian Muenzner's parts are written for 7 strings)
* Spineshank
* Stencher
* Steve Vai (7-string guitars)
* Sun Caged (7-string guitars)
* Textures (7 string guitars)
* Theory of a Deadman (on their song "No Surprise" and recent live performances of "Bad Girlfriend")
* The Project Hate MCMXCIX
* The Safety Fire (7-string guitars, drop A)
* To/Die/For
* Tremonti (on the title track of the album A Dying Machine, and on live performances of songs originally recorded in C tuning)
* Triptykon
* Trivium (7-string guitars, on some songs from The Crusade and all songs on Shogun)
* Type O Negative
* Unearth (7-string guitars)
* Universum
* Unleashed
* Vehemence
* Veil of Maya
* Visceral Bleeding
* Warning
* Whitechapel (7-string guitars, only on a few songs)
* Wicked Sisters
* Winterfylleth (also use Drop A)
* Within Temptation (lead guitarist Ruud Jolie uses 7-string guitars, while Robert Westerholt downtunes a six-string to B)
* Wormed
* Yanomamo