D tuning

D Tuning, also called One Step Lower, Whole Step Down, or D Standard, is an alternate tuning to a guitar. Each string is lowered by a whole tone or two semitones. The end result is this: D-G-c-f-a-d'. It is used mostly by heavy metal bands to achieve a lower sound and by blues guitarists, who use it to accommodate string bending.

Bands/Players

Here is a list of bands or players who have used this tuning:

• Bullet For My Valentine on their CD Scream Aim Fire
• Albert King
• The Velvet Underground
• Guns N' Roses
• Blink 182
• Symphony X
• Korn (7 string D tuning, ADGCFAD)
• Alice in Chains
• Soundgarden
• Elliott Smith
• Killing Joke
• Bob Dylan
• Pink Floyd
• Local Porn Star
• Death
• Mötley Crüe
• Fu Manchu
• Children of Bodom
• Swans
• Symphony X
• The Used
• Drive-By Truckers
• Gojira
• Jeff Buckley
• Dream Theater
• Necrophagist
• Nirvana
• Sentenced
• Vital Remains
• Alter Bridge
• Nightwish
• The Beatles
• All That Remains
• Jimmy Eat World
• Creed (band)
• Racer X

See also

• List of guitar tunings
• Guitar tuning