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'[[File:D-flat tuning.png|thumb|right|D-flat/C-sharp tuning.]] '''D{{music|b}} tuning''', also called C{{music|sharp}} tuning, is an alternative [[guitar tuning]]. Each string is [[minor third|one and one half steps]] lower than in [[standard tuning]], or one [[half step]] lower than [[D tuning]]. The resulting notes can be described as '''D♭-G♭-B-E-A♭-D♭''' or (less often) as '''C♯-F♯-B-E-G♯-C♯'''. It is popular amongst alternative and heavy rock bands because it has a darker and lower-pitched sound compared to E standard. ==Used by== * [[A Pale Horse Named Death]] * [[A Perfect Circle]] - nearly all of their songs are in this tuning. * [[Abbath]] (album only; live performances are on D tuning) * [[Akercocke]] * [[Weird Al Yankovic|Al's Band]] (on "My Bologna" and "Perform This Way") * [[All That Remains (band)|All That Remains]] (since ''[[Overcome (All That Remains album)|Overcome]]'' and live performances since 2007) * [[The Almighty (band)|The Almighty]] * [[Amorphis]] (on ''[[Tales from the Thousand Lakes]]'') * [[An Isle Ate Her]] * [[Architects (British band)|Architects]] (they also drop the low string to G{{music|#}}/A{{music|b}}) * [[Before the Dawn (band)|Before the Dawn]] (on the song "The Black" from ''[[4:17 am]]'') * [[Behemoth (band)|Behemoth]] * [[Between the Buried and Me]] - nearly all of their songs are in this tuning. * [[Black Sabbath]]<ref>Wilkinson, Paul (2007). ''Rat Salad: Black Sabbath, The Classic Years, 1969-1975''. {{ISBN|978-0-312-36723-7}}.</ref> - many songs from ''[[Master of Reality]]'' onward to at least ''[[Sabotage]]'' (because [[Tony Iommi]] had two damaged fingertips).<ref name="Star">Hunter, Dave and F Gibbons, Billy (2010). ''Star Guitars: 101 Guitars That Rocked the World'', {{page needed|date=December 2011}}. {{ISBN|978-0-7603-3821-6}}.</ref> They still use this tuning on some songs from later albums and on live performances of Dirty Women since 1998. * [[Black Stone Cherry]] (On the song "Me and Mary Jane") * [[Blink-182]] (on the songs "Obvious" from [[Blink-182 (album)|their self-titled album]], "Time to Break Up", and for live performances of "Adam's Song") * [[Bolt Thrower]] * [[Brutal Truth]] * [[Candlemass (band)|Candlemass]] * [[Cannibal Corpse]] ("Mummified in Barbed Wire", "Disfigured", "Absolute Hatred", "Eaten from Inside", and "Orgasm Through Torture") * [[Chevelle (band)|Chevelle]] (on three songs from ''[[Wonder What's Next]]'': "Comfortable Liar", "[[The Red]]", and "Don't Fake This") * [[Children of Bodom]] (on their first album ''[[Something Wild (album)|Something Wild]]'' and on some songs from ''[[I Worship Chaos]]'' and ''[[Hexed (album)|Hexed]]'') * [[Coalesce (band)|Coalesce]] * [[Coldplay]] (on their song "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face") * [[Comeback Kid (band)|Comeback Kid]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Bean|first=Perry|title=Rig Rundown - Comeback Kid|url=http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22093-rig-rundown-comeback-kid|publisher=Premier Guitar|accessdate=5 February 2014}}</ref> * [[Creed (band)|Creed]] (on 4 songs from ''[[Full Circle (Creed album)|Full Circle]]'', although most of the rest of the album has the low string dropped to B and, on one song, G{{music|#}}/A{{music|b}}) * [[Dark Tranquillity]] * [[Decapitated (band)|Decapitated]] * [[Deftones]] (on most songs from ''[[Around the Fur]]'') * [[The Devil and the Almighty Blues]] * [[Dimension Zero]] (on their ''[[Penetrations from the Lost World]]'' EP) * [[Down (band)|Down]] * [[Dying Fetus]] * [[Dream Theater]] (on the songs, "Along for the Ride", "New Millennium", "Vacant", and "You Not Me") * [[El Caco]] * [[Epica (band)|Epica]] (on the songs "The Last Crusade", "Blank Infinity", and "Another Me in Lack'ech", from the ''[[Consign to Oblivion]]'' album. All the other songs from the album are in [[C tuning (guitar)|C tuning]].) * [[Eyehategod]] * [[Falconer (band)|Falconer]] (on the albums, ''[[Northwind (album)|Northwind]]'' and ''[[Among Beggars and Thieves]]'') * [[God Forbid]] (on some songs from ''[[Gone Forever]]'') * [[Godflesh]] (Used from ''[[Slavestate]]'' up to ''[[Songs of Love and Hate (Godflesh album)|Songs of Love and Hate]]'') * [[Gorgoroth]] * [[Gorguts]] * [[The Grass Roots]] (on the song "[[Let's Live for Today (song)|Let's Live for Today]]") * [[Guns N' Roses]] (on "[[Jumpin' Jack Flash]]" and "I Don't Care About You") * [[Hate Eternal]] * [[Isis (band)]] * [[I the Mighty]] * [[John Prine]] (on most songs since 1998) * [[Judas Priest]] (on "Jugulator", "Blood Stained", "Death Row", "Decapitate", and "Abductors") * [[Kalmah]] (starting from [[For the Revolution]] and live performances since 2008) * [[Kyuss]] (on ''[[Sons of Kyuss (EP)|Sons of Kyuss]]'' EP) * [[Las Cruces (band)|Las Cruces]] * [[Machine Head (band)|Machine Head]] (on some songs, including their cover of "Battery") (tuned 40 cents sharp) * [[Mark Tremonti]] (on "So You're Afraid" and "Doesn't Matter" from ''[[All I Was]]'') * [[Microwave (band)]] (on "Something right" from "Stovall") * [[Metallica]] (on "Bad Seed" from ''[[Reload (Metallica album)|ReLoad]]'', "The More I See" from [[Garage Inc.|''Garage Inc''.]], and live performances of "[[The Thing That Should Not Be]]" since 1987) * [[Monte Pittman]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Dirks|first=Rebecca|title=Rig Rundown - Madonna's Monte Pittman|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6dB-Khtr_Y|publisher=Premier Guitar|accessdate=5 February 2014}}</ref> * [[My Dying Bride]] (on most songs) * [[Neil Perry (band)|Neil Perry]] * [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] (On certain recordings of Old Age) * [[Omnium Gatherum]] * [[Orange Goblin]] * [[Pantera]] (Most of the album "[[The Great Southern Trendkill]]") * [[Pianos Become the Teeth]] * [[Portraits of Past]] * [[Powerwolf]] (most songs starting from "[[Bible of the Beast]]") * [[Queens of the Stone Age]] (early live performances) * [[Rains (band)|Rains]] * [[Reverend Bizarre]] * [[Rotting Christ]] * [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]] (live performances of "Bad Boys Running Wild", "Coming Home", "Can't Get Enough" since 2017, on "Send Me An Angel (2016 Acoustic Version)") * [[Sent By Ravens]] * [[Shotmaker (band) | Shotmaker]] * [[Sinergy]] (on the album ''[[Beware the Heavens]]'') * [[Skillet (band)|Skillet]] (on some songs from the albums, ''[[Hey You, I Love Your Soul]]'' and ''[[Collide (Skillet album)|Collide]]'') * [[Slash (musician)|Slash]] (on "Crucify the Dead") * [[Slayer]] (on the song "Gemini" from ''[[Undisputed Attitude]]'', the albums ''[[Diabolus in Musica]]'' (except "Perversions Of Pain", bonus track "Unguarded Instinct", and "Scrum"), ''[[God Hates Us All]]'' (Except "[[Payback (Slayer song)|Payback]]", "[[Here Comes The Pain]]"), and the songs "Black Serenade" and "Cult" from ''[[Christ Illusion]]'') * [[Sleater-Kinney]] * [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]] (on "[[Snuff (song)|Snuff]]") * [[Sodom (band)|Sodom]] (in several songs from "[['Til Death Do Us Unite]]" and "[[M-16 (album)|M-16]]") * [[Stone Sour]] * [[Stormlord (band)|Stormlord]] * [[Suffocation (band)|Suffocation]] (on [[Pierced from Within]]) * [[Superjoint Ritual]] * [[Testament (band)|Testament]] (since ''[[Low (Testament album)|Low]]'') * [[Therion (band)|Therion]] (on most songs in every album from 1994–present and their death metal demos) * [[Truckfighters]] * [[Torture Squad]] (on the albums "The Unholy Spell" and "[[Pandemonium (Torture Squad album)|Pandemonium]]") *[[Unknown Mortal Orchestra]] * [[Vader (band)|Vader]] (2002-present) * [[Venom (band)|Venom]] * [[Woods of Ypres]] * [[Within Temptation]] (on most songs from the album ''[[Mother Earth (album)|Mother Earth]]'' and some songs from the albums, ''[[the Heart of Everything]]'' and ''[[the Unforgiving]]'') ==Sources== {{reflist}} {{Guitar tunings}} {{DEFAULTSORT:D Flat Tuning}} [[Category:Downtuned guitar tunings]]'