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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.

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.
• CADGBE – This is achieved by taking standard tuning (EADGBE), and dropping the low E to a C. All other strings remain in standard tuning.

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
• Aeges
• Alesana - on most of their Confessions album
• Allison (on song "Matar o Morir")
• Alter Bridge - on some songs such as "Isolation"
• Allison (on the song "Matar o Morir")
• American Head Charge (on the song "Seamless")
• The Amity Affliction
• Anberlin
• And So I Watch You from Afar
• Arch/Matheos
• Architects (on album Nightmares)
• Arsis
• Arsonists Get All the Girls
• As Blood Runs Black
• As I Lay Dying
• Asking Alexandria - on the whole "Reckless & Relentless" album and the song "Break Down The Walls".
• Attila (metalcore band)
• Atreyu
• August Burns Red
• Avenged Sevenfold (on the song "Radiant Eclipse")
• Baroness
• 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
• Black Stone Cherry
• Black Veil Brides
• Breaking Benjamin - since We Are Not Alone
• The Browning
• Born of Osiris
• Buckethead (On "Nottingham Lace")
• Bullet For My Valentine
• Buried in Verona
• Burning the Masses
• Byzantine
• Cancer Bats
• Celldweller
• Chevelle - (all albums since "Hats Off to the Bull", as well as live performances of "Sleep Apnea")
• Children of Bodom
• Chimaira - 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
• Crossfade
• Crown the Empire
• Cry of the Afflicted
• Dååth
• 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
• Dhu Rahn Tula
• Disillusion
• Disturbed - on some songs since Ten Thousand Fists
• Dope
• Dream Evil (on some songs)
• Edguy - on "Ministry of Saints"
• Empatic
• Enter Shikari
• Escape The Fate
• 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)
• FAT POOR SHOW
• Firewind
• Feared
• For Today
• Fozzy
• From First to Last
• Fuel - (on the song "Won't Back Down")
• Ghost Bath
• Ghost - (on the song "Mummy Dust")
• 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 songs on Magma)
• Kyle J Borg
• HammerFall on "One More Time"
• Hands Like Houses
• Haste The Day
• Heaven and Hell - On at least one live recording
• Heaven Shall Burn
• Helmet (since Size Matters)
• He Is Legend
• I Set My Friends on Fire
• I, the Breather
• Icarus the Owl
• Ice Nine Kills
• Ill Nino
• Imperial Circus Dead Decadence in some songs
• 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
• Life of Agony
• Lostprophets
• Killer Be Killed
• Killswitch Engage
• Kittie
• King Buzzo
• King's X (most later material and live performances, also used on some songs since Dogman)
• Linkin Park (on the song "Rebellion")
• Luxtorpeda
• Machine Head
• Marmozets
• Mastodon
• Maximum the Hormone
• Metallica – On most of St. Anger"
• mewithoutYou
• Miss May I
• Motionless in White
• MOTHS
• Murderdolls
• Neil Young
• Neck Deep (except for Rain In July album (C#) and some songs live (B and Standard).)
• Nickelback (on some songs)
• 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
• Pianos Become the Teeth
• Pillar
• Planetshakers
• Poison The Well
• Poisonblack (on "Rush")
• Porcupine Tree
• Probot
• P.O.D.
• Rammstein - Live renditions of "Mein Herz brennt", The albums Reise Reise and Rosenrot in full, and half of the album Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da.
• Red Fang
• Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• Rob Zombie
• Rush (On "Totem")
• Sacred Mother Tongue
• Savatage (on "Hall of the Mountain King")
• Secrets
• Seether (since Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces)
• Shadows Fall
• Shiner
• Sick Puppies
• Skillet
• Sonic Syndicate
• Soulfly (On "Sodomites")
• 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 Hippie Coalition
• 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 Ongoing Concept
• The Unguided
• The Used
• The Venetia Fair
• Theatre of Tragedy (on some songs from their final two albums, Storm and Forever Is the World)
• Theory of a Deadman
• Thirty Seconds to Mars
• Threat Signal
• Three Days Grace on One-X
• Thrice
• Times of Grace
• Tonight Alive

Throwdown

• Triggerfinger
• Truckfighters
• Unida
• Uriah Heep (on "The Wizard")
• Vanna
• Vopli Vidopliassova (most songs)
• War of Ages
• We Came as Romans
• Wednesday 13
• While She Sleeps
• White Zombie
• Wintersun (on some songs)
• Wovenwar
• Yellowcard

Artists that have used CADGBE

• Bob Dylan – predominantly in the period 1965-1966.
• John Mayer – on the song "Neon".
• Muse – on the songs "Map Of The Problematique" & "Dead Inside"
• Nickelback
• Brad Richter – on the piece "Flirtation"

Artists that have used CGDGBE

• Keola Beamer
• Melvins – on the song "Evil New War God"
• Richard Thompson
• Soundgarden
• pt:Retrofoguetes - Julio Moreno (Album Enigmascope Volume 1)

References

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