- Drop D♭ tuning
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Drop D♭ Tuning, also referred to as Drop C♯ Tuning, is an alternative guitar tuning. It is similar to Drop-D tuning, having the lowest (sixth) string dropped down three semitones to Db, with the rest of the strings being tuned down one semitone. The tuning (from low strings to high strings) is D♭ A♭ D♭ G♭ B♭ E♭. This type of tuning is mostly used by modern rock bands and is one of the most commonly used alternative tunings.
Bands who use this tuning:
- Adelitas Way
- Alice in Chains ( on "Them Bones", "We Die Young", "Rain When I Die", "Dam That River", "Last Of My Kind", "A Looking in View","Acid Bubble"), etc.
- All Time Low (on "Under a Paper Moon" and "Too Much")
- Alter Bridge
- Art of Dying
- As I Lay Dying (on "The Powerless Rise")
- Attack Attack! ( on "Someday Came Suddenly")
- Avenged Sevenfold (on "Almost Easy", "Scream", "Walk", and live performances of "Welcome to the Family")
- Biffy Clyro
- Bionic Jive (on "Armageddon Through Your Speakers")
- Black Stone Cherry
- Black Veil Brides
- blessthefall
- Breaking Benjamin
- Chevelle (on some songs from Sci-Fi Crimes)
- Collective Soul (on "Shine")
- Dir En Grey
- Dirty Wormz (on "Big Bad Azz")
- Deftones (on Around the Fur)
- Disturbed
- Earshot
- Egypt Central
- Enter Shikari
- The Exies
- Fireflight
- Finch (on What It Is to Burn and Say Hello To Sunshine)
- Finger Eleven (on most of their older material)
- Funeral for a Friend
- Halestorm
- Linkin Park (on Hybrid Theory and Meteora)
- LM.C
- Metallica (on the songs "- Human" and on live performances of "All Nightmare Long")
- Mr. VonTone
- My Darkest Days
- Nirvana (on "In Utero")
- Nothingface
- Paramore (on Riot! and the song "Decode")
- Protest the Hero (some songs on Kezia)
- Puddle of Mudd
- Psychostick
- RED (on "End of Silence")
- Reveille
- Rise Against (on the song "Midnight Hands" from Endgame)
- Scars on Broadway (on their self-titled debut)
- Sevendust (on some songs, mostly on their first album)
- Shaman's Harvest
- Skillet
- Slayer (on "God Hates Us All")
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Smile Empty Soul
- SubmerseD
- System of a Down (on Mezmerize and Hypnotize)
- 10 Years
- Theory of a Deadman
- The Wonder Years
- Three Days Grace (on "Just like You")
- Thrice (on "The Illusion of Safety")
- Touché Amoré
- Transit on early recordings
- Trivium (on "In Waves")
- TRUSTcompany
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