Drop C tuning
Drop C tuning is 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, and dropping the low E to a C. All other strings remain in standard tuning.
Artists that have used CGCFAD
A-F
- 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
- Alesana - on most of their Confessions album
- All Them Witches - on most tracks from Dying Surfer Meets His Maker
- Allison
- Alter Bridge - on some songs such as "Isolation"
- American Head Charge
- The Amity Affliction
- Anberlin
- And So I Watch You from Afar
- Arch/Matheos
- Architects
- 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".
- Atreyu
- August Burns Red
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Bad Omens
- Baroness
- Beartooth
- Becoming the Archetype
- Before the Dawn
- Berri Txarrak - after their first album
- Biffy Clyro
- Black Label Society
- Black Stone Cherry
- Black Veil Brides
- Blessthefall
- Born of Osiris
- Breaking Benjamin
- Breaking Point
- Bring Me the Horizon
- The Browning
- Buckethead
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Buried in Verona
- Byzantine
- Cancer Bats
- Celldweller
- Chevelle -
- Charon
- Children of Bodom
- Chimaira - most songs after their first album.
- Closure in Moscow
- Code Orange
- The Color Morale
- Colour Haze
- Converge
- Corrosion of Conformity
- Counterparts
- The Crimson Armada
- Crossfade
- Crown the Empire
- Crush 40 - on, "I Am...All of Me"
- Cry of the Afflicted
- Courage My Love - on "You Don't Know How" from Becoming
- Dååth
- Damageplan - on "Reborn" from New Found Power
- Darkest Hour
- Darkness Divided
- Davey Suicide
- 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
- Disciple
- Disillusion
- Disturbed - on some songs since Ten Thousand Fists
- Dope
- Draconian
- Dream Evil
- Drowning Pool
- Edguy - on "Ministry of Saints"
- Empatic
- Enter Shikari
- Escape The Fate
- Eskimo Callboy
- Evans Blue
- Evanescence
- Every Time I Die
- Fair to Midland
- Falling in Reverse
- Famous Last Words
- Fantômas
- Firewind
- Flub
- For Today
- Fozzy
- From First to Last
- Fuel -
G-M
- Ghost Bath
- Ghost -
- Glamour Of The Kill
- God Forbid - along with D tuning, it's their main tuning
- Godsmack - along with drop D tuning, it's their main tuning
- Gojira
- Green Arrows from the second album
- Greeley Estates On their Album Go West Young Man, Let the Evil Go East
- Halford
- HammerFall on "One More Time"
- Hands Like Houses
- Haste The Day
- Heaven and Hell - On Follow the Tears
- Hellyeah
- Helmet
- He Is Legend
- Holy Soldier
- HUM
- I Set My Friends on Fire
- I, the Breather
- Icarus the Owl
- Ice Nine Kills
- Ill Niño
- In Fear and Faith
- Intervals
- It Dies Today
- Iwrestledabearonce
- Job for a Cowboy
- Lostprophets
- Lower Definition
- Killer Be Killed
- Killswitch Engage
- Kittie
- King Buzzo
- King's X
- Lamb of God
- Linkin Park
- Loma Prieta
- Luxtorpeda
- Marmozets
- Mastodon
- Maximum the Hormone
- Mejibray
- Metallica – On most of St. Anger
- mewithoutYou
- Misery Signals
- Miss May I
- Motionless in White
- Mötley Crüe
- Mudvayne
- Murderdolls
N-S
- Neil Young
- Neck Deep and some songs live
- Nickelback
- Nine Inch Nails - "Into The Void"
- Nirvana
- Nonpoint
- Nothing More
- Oceana
- Of Mice & Men
- Oh, Sleeper
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Painted in Exile
- Pantera on I'll Cast a Shadow from Reinventing the Steel
- Papa Roach
- Parkway Drive
- Periphery
- Pianos Become the Teeth
- Pillar
- Planetshakers
- Poison The Well
- Poisonblack
- Porcupine Tree
- Primal Fear
- Probot
- P.O.D.
- Radiohead
- 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
- Sacred Mother Tongue
- Savatage
- Scarlxrd
- Scorpions
- Secrets
- Seether
- Shadows Fall
- Shinedown
- Shiner
- Sick Puppies
- Skillet
- Skrape
- Sleeping With Sirens
- Slipknot
- Slo Burn
- Sonic Syndicate
- Soulfly
- Soundgarden
- Steve Vai
- Still Remains
- Stiff Valentine
- Stratovarius
- Stray from the Path
- Strung Out - some songs
- Stuck Mojo - a lot of songs
- Sum 41 - on the songs "A Murder of Crows" and "Goddamn I'm Dead Again"
- Swallow the Sun
- System of a Down - on their first three albums and the songs "Question!" from Mezmerize and "Dreaming" from Hypnotize.
T-Z
- Taproot
- Texas Hippie Coalition
- Texas in July
- The Agonist
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- The Faceless
- The Fall of Troy
- The Ghost Inside
- The Human Abstract
- The Ocean
- The Ongoing Concept
- The Unguided
- The Used
- The Venetia Fair
- Theatre of Tragedy
- Theory of a Deadman
- Thirty Seconds to Mars
- Threat Signal
- Three Days Grace on some songs from their first two albums
- Thrice
- Throwdown
- Times of Grace
- Tonight Alive
- Tool
- Triggerfinger
- Truckfighters
- Unida
- Uriah Heep
- Vanna
- Vein
- Virgin Black
- Vopli Vidopliassova
- War of Ages
- We Came as Romans
- Wednesday 13
- While She Sleeps
- White Zombie
- Wintersun
- Within the Ruins
- Wovenwar
- Yellowcard
- Zakk Wylde
Artists that have used CADGBE
- Bob Dylan – predominantly in the period 1965-1966.
- Deftones on some songs such as "Swerve City" and "Hearts/Wires", tuned down a full step.
- John Mayer – on the song "Neon".
- Mark Tremonti on the song "My Champion"
- Muse – on the songs "Map Of The Problematique" & "Dead Inside"
- Nickelback
- Brad Richter – on the piece "Flirtation"
- Sevendust on the song "Mountain"
- The Tallest Man on Earth – on the song "The Sparrow and the Medicine".
Artists that have used CGDGBE
- Keola Beamer
- Melvins – on the song "Evil New War God"
- Mortal
- Pavement
- Richard Thompson
- Soundgarden
- – Julio Moreno