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| '''Dropped C tuning: CGCFAD''', also known as simply as '''drop C''', is |
'''Dropped C tuning: CGCFAD''', also known as simply as '''drop C''', is an alternative ] style in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down two tones ("dropped") to C rather than E as in ] (EADGBE). | ||
| ==Usage of dropped C tuning== | ==Usage of dropped C tuning== | ||
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Dropped C tuning: CGCFAD, also known as simply as drop C, is an alternative guitar tuning style in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down two tones ("dropped") to C rather than E as in standard tuning (EADGBE).
Usage of dropped C tuning
The difference of drop C from standard tuning is that drop C allows for the bottom three strings to form a C5 power chord, which can be shifted up or down the fretboard with a single finger (usually the index) to produce any power chord quickly and easily.
Artists who use Dropped C tuning
- Helmet have recorded their most recent albums with this tuning, alternating with Dropped D.
- Children of Bodom recorded Are You Dead Yet? album in dropped C tuning.
- System of a Down make heavy use of dropped C tuning on their first three albums, System of a Down, Toxicity, and Steal This Album!.
- As I Lay Dying play almost all of their songs in Drop C.
- Killswitch Engage also utilize Dropped-C tuning.
- Breaking Benjamin has been known to use Drop C tuning, such as in the single, So Cold.
- Disturbed also uses Drop C tuning a lot.
- Bullet for My Valentine uses Drop C tuning on their CD The Poison.
- Rammstein has recorded Reise, Reise and Rosenrot in Drop C.
- Jimmy Page uses Drop C tuning for Led Zeppelin's song Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
- Steve Vai uses Drop C tuning for his song Bad Horsie
- Three Days Grace uses Drop C tuning for their song Animal I have Become