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Gear Used For This Lesson:
'92 Gibson Les Paul Standard
MXR Distortion + (the pedal Victor used in his early days with Pentagram)
Two Notes CAB M+

Drop Bb in Eb Standard Tuning: BbAbDbGbBbEb
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In this Doom Metal Guitar Fundamentals lesson we're discussing the "Drop B In Standard" tuning used by Victor Griffin in the early 80's era of Pentagram. The video contains a full playthrough for all of the riffs in All Your Sins, which is one of my favorite songs to feature the tuning.

The name "Drop B in Standard" is a bit of a misnomer as Pentagram tunes to Eb Standard, but the idea is simple: with your guitar in some form of standard tuning, you drop the pitch of the 6th string to match the pitch of the 2nd string. In doing so, your standard 6th string rooted, Root5th power chord shape will produce octave chords.

A guitar that was in EStandard tuning EADGBE would end up at BADGBE. Since Pentagram tunes to EbStandard, their tuning goes from EbAbDbGbBbEb to BbAbDbGbBbEb.

When Victor first started using this tuning he was playing 946 strings, so the 6th string would be very loose forcing him to adjust his picking technique.

My favorite example of this tuning in use is All Your Sins from Pentagram's Relentless record, their first featuring Griffin on guitar. I always wondered why that song and a few others on that record sounded so uniquely heavy for the era, and this tuning is certainly the main reason why. We had some great reference footage to use putting this TAB together, and I'm really excited about how accurate we were able to get the transcription.

All Your Sins is in the key of Bb Minor.

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