Drop B♭ tuning

Drop B-flat tuning.

Drop B♭ tuning (also referred as Drop A♯ Tuning) is a guitar tuning that is one half step down from dropped B tuning and, essentially, 2 full steps down from Dropped D tuning. This tuning is often used on a Baritone guitar. It is sometimes used on a 7 string guitar tuned B♭-F-B♭-E♭-G-C-F.

Drop B♭, said as "B-flat", is the half step in between Dropped B tuning and Dropped A tuning, and is essentially C tuning with the low string dropped a full step. Drop B♭ tuning can be achieved on a six-string guitar by dropping the strings, from low to high, B♭-F-B♭-E♭-G-C (or A♯-F-A♯-D♯-G-C) or on a 7 string guitar, B♭ F B♭ E♭ F♭ C F (A# F A# D# G# C F). Job for a Cowboy, Thine Eyes Bleed, In Flames, Be Right Back, Evanescence, Emmure, Straight Line Stitch, The Acacia Strain, Celtic Frost (at least on the Monotheist album), RED, Eye Empire, Chevelle, Static-X, Bury Your Dead, Sergey Mavrin, SOiL, Decyfer Down, Sybreed, Bring Me the Horizon, Celldweller, Hellyeah, Sevendust, Parkway Drive, Dirge Within, Dark New Day, Nonpoint (on To the Pain), Benea Reach, Isis, Otep, Dir En Grey, Keith Merrow, Dark Tranquillity, Arch Enemy, Spineshank, Darkest Hour, Entombed, Motionless in White, Skillet, Sick Puppies (on the song "You're Going Down"), Katatonia and Breaking Benjamin (on almost all songs from Phobia and 4 songs off of Dear Agony), among others have all used this tuning. Periphery use a variant of this tuning which is tuned B♭-G-C-F-A-D (D standard with the D string dropped down 2 whole steps).