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.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Drop C tuning (CGCFAD)

Drop C tuning (CGCFAD) (listen)

Artists that have used CGCFAD

• A Day To Remember (on most songs, they occasionally use other drop tunings)^[6]
• Alter Bridge (on some songs such as "Isolation")^[7]
• Arch/Matheos^[8]
• Black Stone Cherry^[9][10]
• Chimaira^[11] (on most songs after their first album)
• Dååth^[4]
• Dope^[12]
• Escape the Fate^[13]
• Heaven & Hell (on "Follow the Tears")^[14]
• King's X^[15] (most later material and live performances, also used on some songs since Dogman)
• Metallica (on the majority of songs in the "St. Anger" album)^[16]
• Nickelback (on some songs, such as most songs on their 2003 album "The Long Road")^[17][18]
• Skillet^[19] (on "Monster")
• System of a Down^[20]
• Theory of a Deadman^[21]
• Triggerfinger^[22]
• Wintersun^[23] (on some songs)
• Sunk Loto (on most songs like "Everything Everyway" and "Sunken Eyes")

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 songs "Map Of The Problematique"^[26][27] & "Dead Inside"
• Brad Richter – on the piece "Flirtation"^[28]
• The Tallest Man on Earth – on the song "The Sparrow and the Medicine".^[29][30]

Artists that have used CGDGBE

• Keola Beamer^[31]
• Richard Thompson^[32][33]
• Soundgarden-on the song "Limo Wreck"^[34]