Drop C tuning
Drop C tuning (CGCFAD)
Drop C tuning (CGCFAD) (listen)
Drop C tuning is technically an alternative guitar tuning where at least one string has been lowered to a C, but most commonly refers to CGCFAD, which can be described as D tuning with a 6th string dropped to C, or drop D tuning transposed down a whole step. Because of its heavier tone, it is most commonly used in rock and heavy metal music.[1][2][3][4][5]
Variations
- CGDGBE – Dropping the low E string to a C, and the A string to a G, to make a fifth chord. The rest of the strings remain the same.[6]
- CADGBE – This is achieved by taking standard tuning (EADGBE), and dropping the low E to a C. All other strings remain in standard tuning.[7]
Artists that have used CGCFAD
- A.N.I.M.A.L. - from "Acosados Nuestros Indios Murieron Al Luchar" to "El Nuevo Camino Del Hombre" albums.
- A Day To Remember
- Acid Drinkers - newest albums
- The Air I Breathe
- Alesana - on most of their Confessions album
- Allison (on song "Matar o Morir")
- Alter Bridge - on some songs such as "Isolation"[8]
- The Amity Affliction
- Anberlin
- And So I Watch You from Afar
- Annotations of an Autopsy
- Arch/Matheos[9]
- Architects (on album Nightmares)
- Arsis
- Arsonists Get All the Girls
- Art of the Process (band)
- As Blood Runs Black
- As I Lay Dying
- Asking Alexandria - on the whole "Reckless & Relentless" album and the song "Break Down The Walls".
- At the Gates[10]
- Attila (metalcore band)
- Atreyu
- August Burns Red
- Baroness
- Barizon
- Beartooth
- Becoming the Archetype
- Berri Txarrak - after their first album
- Biffy Clyro (on many tracks, including "That Golden Rule", "The Captain", "Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies" & "Stingin' Belle")
- Black Label Society - A lot of songs
- Black Stone Cherry[11][12]
- Black Veil Brides
- Breaking Benjamin - since We Are Not Alone
- Bring Me the Horizon
- The Browning
- Born of Osiris
- Buckethead (On "Nottingham Lace")
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Buried in Verona
- Burning the Masses
- Byzantine
- Capsize (band)
- Celldweller
- Chevelle - (all albums since "Hats Off to the Bull", as well as live performances of "Sleep Apnea")
- Children of Bodom
- Chimaira[13] - most songs after their first album.
- Closure in Moscow
- Code Orange Kids
- The Color Morale
- Colour Haze
- Converge
- Corrosion of Conformity
- Counterparts
- The Crimson Armada
- Crown the Empire
- Cry of the Afflicted
- CydeDish
- Dååth[4]
- Damageplan - on Reborn from New Found Power
- Darkest Hour
- Darkness Divided
- Deathstars
- Deez Nuts
- Deftones - on White Pony and other songs on later albums
- Demon Hunter - on their self-titled debut album
- Destrage
- DevilDriver - mostly on The Last Kind Words and later albums and live performances
- Disillusion
- Disturbed - on some songs since Ten Thousand Fists
- Dope[14]
- Dream Evil (on some songs)
- Dream Theater (on some songs such as "Octavarium")
- Edguy - on "Ministry of Saints"
- Empatic
- Enter Shikari
- Escape The Fate[15]
- Eskimo Callboy
- Evans Blue
- Evanescence (on some songs)
- Every Time I Die (some songs on Low Teens)
- Falling in Reverse
- Famous Last Words
- Fantômas (on most of their songs)
- Firewind
- Five Finger Death Punch (on "The Bleeding")
- For Today
- Fozzy
- From First to Last
- Fuel - (on the song "Won't Back Down")
- Ghost Bath
- Glamour Of The Kill
- God Forbid
- Godsmack - along with drop D, it's their main tuning
- Gojira (on The Way of All Flesh and L'Enfant Sauvage, as well as some demos)
- Goodbye Graceful (on most songs)
- HammerFall on "One More Time"
- Hell & Home
- Hands Like Houses
- Haste The Day
- Heaven and Hell - On at least one live recording [16]
- Heaven Shall Burn
- Helmet (since Size Matters)
- He Is Legend
- I Am Abomination
- I Set My Friends on Fire
- I, the Breather
- Icarus the Owl
- Ice Nine Kills
- Ill Nino
- Imperial Circus Dead Decadence in some songs[17]
- In Fear and Faith
- In Flames (on their first album, Lunar Strain; since then, they used regular C tuning)
- Intervals
- It Dies Today
- Iwrestledabearonce
- Job for a Cowboy
- Killer Be Killed
- Killswitch Engage
- Kittie
- King Buzzo
- King's X[18] (most later material and live performances, also used on some songs since Dogman)
- Linkin Park
- Luxtorpeda
- Machine Head
- Marmozets
- Mastodon
- Maximum the Hormone
- Metallica – On most of St. Anger"
- mewithoutYou
- Miss Fortune
- Miss May I
- Motionless in White
- Murderdolls
- Napier
- Neil Young
- Neck Deep (except for Rain In July album (C#) and some songs live (B).
- Nickelback (on some songs) [19][20]
- Nine Inch Nails - "Into The Void"
- Nirvana (On "Blew")
- Oceana
- Of Mice & Men
- Oh, Sleeper
- Ozzy Osbourne (On "I Don't Wanna Stop")
- Painted in Exile
- Pantera on I'll Cast a Shadow from Reinventing the Steel
- Papa Roach
- Parkway Drive (On "Hollow Man")
- Periphery
- Peter Lias
- Phineas
- Pianos Become the Teeth
- Pillar
- Planetshakers
- Poison The Well
- Poisonblack (on "Rush")
- Porcupine Tree
- Probot
- P.O.D.
- Powerwolf
- Rammstein - since "Mein Herz brennt" from Mutter
- Red Fang
- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Rob Zombie
- Rush (On "Totem")
- Sacred Mother Tongue
- Secrets
- Seether (since Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces)
- Shadows Fall
- Shoot The Girl First
- Sick Puppies
- Skillet (on some songs such as "Monster")
- Sonic Syndicate
- Soulfly (On "Sodomites")
- Space of Variations
- Steve Vai
- Still Remains
- Stray from the Path
- Stuck Mojo - a lot of songs
- System of a Down - on their three first albums and the songs "Question!" from Mezmerize and "Dreaming" from Hypnotize.
- Texas in July
- The Agonist (On latest albums)
- The Black Dahlia Murder (on their first albums up to Unhallowed)
- The Faceless
- The Fall of Troy (on "Nobody's Perfect")
- The Ghost Inside (On their cover of "Fortunate Son")
- The HAARP Machine (occasionally played in Drop B, as well)
- The Human Abstract
- The Korea
- The Ongoing Concept
- The Unguided
- The Used
- The Venetia Fair
- The Zenith Passage
- Theatre of Tragedy (on some songs from their final two albums, Storm and Forever Is the World)
- Theory of a Deadman[21]
- Thirty Seconds to Mars
- Threat Signal
- Three Days Grace on One-X
- Thrice
- Times of Grace
- TMNC
- Triggerfinger[22]
- Truckfighters
- Unida
- Uriah Heep (on "The Wizard")
- Vaginal Jesus (on "Get Out")
- Vanna
- Vopli Vidopliassova (most songs)
- War of Ages
- We Came as Romans
- We'll Rise Today
- While She Sleeps
- White Zombie
- Wintersun[23] (on the songs "Beautiful Death", "Death and the Healing", and all songs from the Time I album)
- Wovenwar
- Yellowcard
Artists that have used CADGBE
- Bob Dylan – predominantly in the period 1965-1966.[24]
- John Mayer – on the song "Neon".[25][26]
- Muse – on the song "Map Of The Problematique"[26][27] & "Dead Inside"
- Nickelback[20]
- Brad Richter – on the piece "Flirtation"[28]
Artists that have used CGDGBE
- Keola Beamer[29]
- Melvins – on the song "Evil New War God"
- Richard Thompson[30][31]
- Soundgarden[32]
References
- ↑ Aledort, Andy (7 April 2010). "Atreyu: Prior Convictions". Guitar World. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
...drop C tuning, which is like drop D but with all of the strings down a whole step [low to high: C G C F A D]. Drop C sounds a little more brutal. Because of its heavier tone, it is commonly used in metal.
- ↑ Perry, Megan. Wired: musicians' home studios : tools & techniques of the musical mavericks. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-87930-794-3. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
- ↑ Guitar Player Magazine (1989). Jim Hatlo, ed. Hot Licks. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-88188-910-9. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
- 1 2 Emil, Werstler (7 August 2008). "Emil from Daath Talks Guitars". Roadrunner News. Roadrunner Records. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
- ↑ Guitar Setup for Drop C Tuning article explains drop tunings for rock guitars and metal bands on the Guitar Repair Bench Luthier Website
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=vu5SLtIi8jAC&pg=PA82&dq=%22drop+c+tuning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1ehGT_jmHeLd0QGq46iqDg&ved=0CEgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22drop%20c%20tuning%22&f=false
- ↑ Hodge, David (2010). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Guitar (illustrated ed.). Alpha Books. ISBN 978-1-61564-021-8.
- ↑ Freed, Nick. "Album Review: Alter Bridge – AB III". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
- ↑ Michael Kizer; Jim Matheos (21 October 2011). "Jim comments briefly on the tunings used on Sympathetic Resonance". Archived from the original on 2014-06-04. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
- ↑ Cope, Andrew L. (2010). Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music. Ashgate Publishing. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-7546-6881-7. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
- ↑ "Rig Rundown - Black Stone Cherry's Chris Robertson". All Axess. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ "Rig Rundown - Black Stone Cherry's Ben Wells". All Axess. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ "Rob Arnold of Chimaira – Guitar Rig and Gear Setup – 2009". GuitarGeek. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ↑ Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation (1 April 2002). Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation; Jeff Kitts; Brad Tolinski, eds. Guitar World Presents Nu-Metal. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-634-03287-5. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
- ↑ "Bryan Monte Money of Escape The Fate – Guitar Rig and Gear Setup – 2008". GuitarGeek. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ↑ Mercedes-Benz Enthusiast Channel 1 (2009-07-12), HEAVEN & HELL - Follow The Tears, retrieved 2016-04-05
- ↑ KIM. "TABちょこっとだけあげるからICDD弾いてみたはよ！". Twitter. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ↑ "Ty Tabor of King's X – Guitar Rig and Gear Setup – 2008". GuitarGeek. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ↑ "Rig Rundown - Nickelback's Chad Kroeger & Ryan Peake". Premier Guitar. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- 1 2 "Nickelback Equipment". Retrieved 13 May 2014.
...(Drop D One Whole Step Down CGCFAD, Drop C CADGBE and Drop B BADGBE)
- ↑ "Backstage with Theory of a Deadman HQ(Guitar Edge.com)". Guitar Edge. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ Adriaensen, Wouter. "Ruben Block gear". Blues Online. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
Ruben also plays ... a Melody Maker in CGCFAD tuning - which is dropped D tuning one full tone down...
- ↑ "Rigged: Wintersun". MetalSucks.net. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ↑ "Roadmaps for the Soul". dylanchords.info. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ↑ "CADGBE Guitar Tuner". gtdb.org. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- 1 2 "The Uses of Drop D and Drop C Tunings Today". 16 September 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ↑ Delany, Ross (31 July 2006). "Muse - Black Holes and Revelations". Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ↑ Richter, Brad (3 October 2005). Brad Richter, Solo Guitar Collection. Mel Bay Publications. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-7866-6744-4. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
- ↑ "A Brief History of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar" (PDF). Dancing Cat Records. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
... C-G-D-G-B-E Tuning (often called "Keola’s C", because it has been used most prominently by Slack Key guitarist Keola Beamer)
- ↑ "Q&A re: Gear and Tunings". richardthompson-music.com. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ↑ Little, Guy (29 December 2013). "Richard Thompson". Acoustic Magazine. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
My main tunings are: drop D, DADGAD and CGDGBE…
- ↑ Rotondi, James (June 1994). "Alone in the Superunknown". Guitar Player. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
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