Drop B tuning is a guitar tuning for a six-string guitar where the strings are tuned to B-F#-B-E-G#-C# (or B-G♭-B-E-A♭-D♭). This is a "drop 1" tuning in the key of C# (i.e. tune the whole guitar down a minor third from standard tuning, then the 6th string is lowered an additional whole step down). As a result, it uses the same fingering as all other "drop" tunings.
Bands that have used Drop B
Abigail Williams
Acid Drinkers
A Day to Remember
Affiance
All Shall Perish
Alter Bridge
A Perfect Circle
Architects
Art of Dying
As Blood Runs Black on "Resist"
Asking Alexandria
Attack Attack!
Attila
August Burns Red (on their album "Rescue & Restore")
Behemoth
Baroness
Betraying the Martyrs
Black Light Burns
Black Stone Cherry
Bleed From Within
Bleeding Through
Blinded colony
Bring Me The Horizon (on all of their material prior to Suicide Season)
Bury Tomorrow
Carpathian
The Chariot
Chevelle
Children of Bodom (on I Worship Chaos)
Code Orange
Coheed and Cambria
Conquer Divide
Crossfaith
Crown The Empire (on The Fallout)
Creed (on 1/3 of Full Circle)
Cult of Luna
De La Tierra
Celtic Frost (on their final album Monotheist)
Damageplan (on "Wake Up", "Pride", "Explode", "Save Me", "Crawl", and "Blunt Force Trauma" from New Found Power)
Dark Tranquillity (on much of their material starting from Fiction)
Dead to Fall
Demon Hunter
DevilDriver (on their self-titled and The Fury of Our Maker's Hand albums)
The Devil Wears Prada (It is the primary tuning on Zombie EP and Dead Throne. It is also used on With Roots Above and Branches Below and 8:18)
Disturbed (on most tracks on Immortalized)
Don't Try This At Home (band)
Dope
Down
Dream on Dreamer on their album Heartbound
Elitist
Eyes Set to Kill (on their album Masks)
Famous Last Words
For All Those Sleeping (on their album Outspoken)
For Today (on their Prevailer EP)
From Ashes to New
Funeral
The Gazette
Gemini Syndrome
The Ghost Inside on their album Fury and the Fallen Ones
Greeley Estates on their album No Rain, No Rainbow
Halestorm (on the songs "Freak Like Me", "I Get Off", and "I Like it Heavy", though only Lzzy Hale uses drop B on the latter two)
Hamlet (on most songs on Syberia, and the songs "Arruinando Nuestra Vida", "En Mi Nombre" and "Bajo Su Cuerpo" of the album Pura Vida)
Heart in Hand
I Killed the Prom Queen (on their album Music for the Recently Deceased)
Intronaut
In Extremo (songs "Rasend Herz", "Horizont", "Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein")
I See Stars
Isis
Islander
It Prevails
Iwrestledabearonce
Karnivool (highest 3 strings are all tuned to E Standard tuning)
King's X on their album Dogman (specifically, "Shoes", "Black the Sky" and "Don't Care")
Lamb of God (on the song "Straight For The Sun")
Limp Bizkit
Linkin Park (on "Don't Stay" and "Nobody's Listening" from Meteora)
Lorna Shore
Machine Head (tuned 40 cents sharp)
Memphis May Fire
Motionless In White
Mudvayne (on their album L.D. 50)
Mark Tremonti (on "Leave It Alone", "Giving Up", "Proof", "Decay", "All That I Got" and "Gone" from the All I Was sessions)]
Mike Shinoda (On "Selector" from MTV VMA Score 2005 )
Nickelback (on the song "Side of a Bullet")
Nightwish (on the song "the Islander")
Oceana
Of Mice and Men
Origin
Palisades
Papa Roach (on the songs "Warriors" and "Falling Apart")
Parkway Drive
Pathology (on the song "A Bleak Future")
Pierce The Veil
Projected
Raunchy
Resist the Thought
Rob Zombie
Seether (On the songs "Given" and "Tonight")
Sevendust (primary tuning, although several variations of it are also used)
Skillet (On select songs from their album Comatose, as well as several songs transposed to Drop B for live concerts)
Soilwork
Slayer (On select songs from God Hates Us All, Christ Illusion, "Americon" from World Painted Blood, and half of the songs of Repentless)
Slipknot
Soul Mayhem
Soundgarden (uses variated version from standard tuning: B A D G B E in "Rusty Cage", "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" and "Holy Water")
Stone Sour
Sienna Skies
Tears to Embers
The Amity Affliction
The Kills - "Future Starts Slow"
Theory of a Deadman
This or the Apocalypse
Thousand Foot Krutch
Three Days Grace (on the song "Drown" from their self-titled debut album)
Tool (uses variated versions from standard tuning: B A D G B E in "Prison Sex", and B E D G B E in "Parabola")
Triptykon
UFOMAMMUT
Vanna
Veil of Maya
Vorvaň
We Came as Romans
Wretched
Young Guns
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