C tuning (guitar)
C tuning is a type of guitar tuning. The strings of the guitar are tuned two whole steps lower than standard tuning. The resulting notes can be described most commonly as C-F-A♯-D♯-G-C or C-F-B♭-E♭-G-C. This is not be confused with C# tuning which is one and one half steps lower than standard tuning.
The tuning is commonly used by metal and hard rock artists to achieve a heavier, deeper sound. It also makes bending easier for the player than in E standard using the same gauge of strings. Heavier gauge strings can be used in order to maintain tension in the strings. It is possible to play without them, but difficulties can be experienced as it becomes quite easy to unintentionally bend notes and chords out of tune. However, the ease of bends can be desirable, depending on playing style of the musician.
Used by
- Abysmal Dawn
- The Absence
- Acid Bath
- Acid King
- Akercocke
- Alestorm
- Al-Namrood
- Amaranthe (on their first two studio albums)
- Amon Amarth (on their first EP and studio album)
- Anaal Nathrakh
- Anathema (on their recent progressive rock albums)
- Arch Enemy (2001–present)[1]
- Avatar (on the first three studio albums)
- Autopsy
- Black Sabbath (on some live songs they play) [2][3][4]
- Blasphemy
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Burnt By The Sun
- Called To Arms
- Chthonic
- Cold[5]
- Colour Haze
- Cradle of Filth (In "Better to Reign in Hell" from Damnation and a Day)
- Deadlock
- Deathstars
- Defeated Sanity
- Dethklok
- Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
- Dimension Zero
- Disgorge
- Dismember
- Dream Theater (used on "As I Am", "Honor Thy Father" and "In the Name of God" on Train of Thought and on "A Nightmare to Remember" on Black Clouds & Silver Linings)
- Entombed (From Clandestine onward)
- Elder (On debut album only)
- Electric Wizard
- Epica on most songs from Consign to Oblivion
- Evanescence on some songs
- EyeHateGod
- Full of Hell
- George Cromarty
- George Ezra
- Goat Horn
- Gorguts [6]
- Hamlet (main tuning)
- Harvey Milk
- Hatebreed
- Hatesphere
- High on Fire
- Immolation
- Incantation
- In Flames[7](all up until Reroute to Remain – since then, they drop the low string to A#)
- Into Eternity
- Jimi Hendrix (In the song "Here My Train A' Comin' (Acoustic)")
- John Butler
- Judas Priest (on "Dead Meat", "Brain Dead", and "Cathedral Spires")
- Katatonia (all albums since Viva Emptiness)
- Kip Winger (solo)
- Kittie
- Kyuss[8]
- Kreator
- Legion Of The Damned
- Monster Magnet
- Murder by Death
- NAILS
- Neuraxis
- Nick Drake
- Nightrage
- Noah And The Whale
- Paradise Lost (first two albums)
- Parasite Inc.
- Porcupine Tree (in Anesthetize and Way Out of Here)
- Queens of the Stone Age (used exclusively on their debut album, after which C standard, E standard and various other tunings were used)[9]
- Salticid (in "Black Fly")
- Scorpions (on "321")
- Sentenced (on their early death metal albums)
- Septicflesh
- Sepultura (on "Antichrist" and "Necromancer")
- Six Feet Under
- Sleep
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- The Smashing Pumpkins (in "The Everlasting Gaze" "Lucky 13" "Heavy Metal Machine" and "The Imploding Voice")
- The Sword
- Sibylle Baier
- Sodom (in "Masquerade in Blood")
- Soundgarden (some songs in "Badmotorfinger", occasionally on other releases)
- Starkill
- Static-X (all up until Shadow Zone – since then, they drop the low string to Bb)
- Suidakra
- Therion (on their early death metal albums)
- Tiamat (on their first album Sumerian Cry)
- Tony Iommi (on the song "Who's Fooling Who") [10]
- While Heaven Wept
- The Wildhearts (on 2009's "Chutzpah" album)
- Witchfinder General
- Wolfchant
References
- ↑ "Michael Amott Interview". Musisi.com. June 7, 2008.
- ↑ Maximiliano Dickinson (2014-01-17), Black Sabbath Under The Sun ( Live... Gathered In Their Masses), retrieved 2016-01-22
- ↑ Black Sabbath (2014-11-06), Black Sabbath "War Pigs" Live at Ozzfest 2005, retrieved 2016-01-22
- ↑ Black Sabbath (2015-07-08), Black Sabbath - "Into The hiVoid" Live 2013, retrieved 2016-01-22
- ↑ "Terry Balsamo Artist Interview Ibanez". Ibanez. January 1, 2006.
- ↑ "Rigged: Luc Lemay of Gorguts". MetalSucks.net. MetalSucks. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
- ↑ "In Flames Interview". tartareandesire.com.
- ↑ "Kyuss The Guitar Cave". The Guitar Cave. October 28, 2011.
- ↑ "10 Questions with Troy Van Leeuwen - Queens of the Stone Age". guitar.com.
- ↑ Ray H (2013-06-16), Iommi - Who's Fooling Who (Feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Bill Ward), retrieved 2016-04-07