B Tuning or B Standard Tuning is the standard tuning for a seven string guitar, where the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-G-B-E. B tuning can also be achieved on a six-string guitar, when the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-F♯-B, known then as Baritone Tuning. This tuning is popular among several different types of metal bands.

The following is a list of musical groups who use this tuning on six-string or seven-string guitars:

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2. In standard tuning, there is an interval of a major third between the second and third strings, and all the other intervals are fourths. The irregularity has a price. Chords cannot be shifted around the fretboard in the standard tuning E–A–D–G–B–E, which requires four chord-shapes for the major chords.
3. B ♭ tuning, or A ♯ tuning, is a method of guitar tuning (and stringed instruments per se) in which all strings on a six-stringed instrument, most often guitar, are tuned down by 3 steps. For example, standard guitar tuning is E A D G B E. B♭ tuning starts by tuning the lowest string on a guitar E, to B♭ and then tuning all strings down.
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• Aeon (7-string guitars)
• Aghora (7-string guitars) (on the album Aghora (album))
• Allegaeon (7-string guitars)
• Amaranthe (since Massive Addictive)
• Amon Amarth (on most albums)
• Angel Vivaldi (7-string guitars)
• Animals as Leaders (On most of their first album, 7-string guitars)
• Arch Enemy (On their first three albums: Black Earth, Stigmata and Burning Bridges; and a few songs from their more recent albums)
• Arcturus on the album The Sham Mirrors
• Attack Attack! on the album self-titled Album
• Avatar (from Black Waltz onwards)
• Biomechanical (7-string guitars) on the album Cannibalised
• Black Label Society On '13 Years of Grief' from the album Stronger than Death
• Blood Red Throne on the album Altered Genesis
• Cannibal Corpse (7-string guitars)
• Cavalera Conspiracy (on the album Blunt Force Trauma and some songs on the album Inflikted)
• Carajo (B flat tuning)
• Cathedral (on the albums Forest of Equilibrium, The Ethereal Mirror, Statik Majik, and The Garden of Unearthly Delights)
• Celtic Frost (on 'Monotheist' and live performances during 2000s)
• Coal Chamber (BEADGB, although some songs are dropped to A)
• Coheed and Cambria (Key Entity Extraction II: Hollywood the Cracked, Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant)
• Dave Matthews Band (On 'You Never Know')
• Decapitated (On the Blood Mantra album)
• Divine Heresy (7-string guitars)
• DragonForce (7-string guitars)
• Dream Theater (7-string guitars) (used on many songs, including 'Lie', 'Caught in a Web' and 'The Mirror' from Awake; the 1994 version of 'To Live Forever'; 'A Change of Seasons'; 'Just Let Me Breathe' from Falling into Infinity; 'Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity' from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, and most songs from the Twelve-step Suite)
• Edenbridge (7-string guitars) (on some songs from their first five albums)
• Electric Wizard on the album Dopethrone
• Eluveitie (on many songs)
• Emperor on the album Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
• Engulfed (7-string guitars)
• Entombed (on their album Left Hand Path)
• Fallujah (7-string guitars)
• Fear Factory (used B on a six-string prior to Dino Cazares' 1995 switch to Ibanez, from whom he began 7-string guitars.)
• Godflesh (used on the Godflesh EP and the Streetcleaner, Us and Them, and Hymns LPs
• HIM (on many songs)
• Hypocrisy (On all albums up from The Fourth Dimension until The Arrival, after which A# Standard and Drop G# are used)
• Illdisposed (All albums up until Burn Me Wicked)
• John Prine (on 'The Late John Garfield Blues' and 'Fish and Whistle' since 1998)
• King's X (on the album Black Like Sunday)^[1]
• Kreator (some songs on the album 'Renewal')
• Kyuss (some songs on Wretch (album))
• Lacuna Coil (7-string guitars)
• Lead Belly was rumored to use this tuning in a 12-string variation.
• Linkin Park (BEADGB. Used on live performances of the songs 'Runaway' and 'With You' from 2003 onwards; originally recorded on standard tuned 7-string guitars)
• Massacre (on Back from Beyond)
• Negură Bunget (7-string guitars)
• Nekrogoblikon (7-string guitars)
• Pain of Salvation (7-string guitars)
• Pomegranate Tiger (7-string guitars)
• Profiles in Terror (7-string guitar and 6 guitar B tuned)
• Raintime (7 string guitars)
• Satariel (7-string guitars)
• Scar Symmetry (7 string guitars, on Symmetric in Design and Pitch Black Progress; have since switched to Drop A tuning)
• Sepultura (from Roots onward)
• Sleep (on their new single 'Leagues Beneath')
• Spawn of Possession (6- & 7-string guitars; Jonas Bryssling plays a 6 string, while Jonas Karlsson and Christian Muenzner's parts are written for 7 strings)
• Steve Vai (7-string guitar)
• Sun Caged (7-string guitars)
• Textures (7 string guitars)
• Theory of a Deadman (on their song 'No Surprise' and recent live performances of 'Bad Girlfriend')
• Tremonti (on the title track of the album A Dying Machine, and on live performances of songs originally recorded in C tuning)
• Trivium (7-string guitars, on some songs from The Crusade and all songs on Shogun)
• Type O Negative (on some songs)
• Unearth (7-string guitars)
• Whitechapel (7-string guitars, only on a few songs)
• Wicked Sisters
• Winterfylleth (also use Drop A)
• Within Temptation (lead guitarist Ruud Jolie uses 7-string guitars, while Robert Westerholt downtunes a six-string to B)
• Yanomamo
• Brightside to kill (Along Journey)

Guitars, however, are typically tuned in a series of ascending perfect fourths and a single major third. To be exact, from low to high, standard guitar tuning is EADGBE—three intervals of a fourth (low E to A, A to D and D to G), followed by a major third (G to B), followed by one more fourth (B to the high E).

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B Standard Tuning Guitar Notes

B Minor Chord Guitar Standard Tuning

1. ^'Ty Tabor – Kings X – 2008'. GuitarGeek. Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.

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