Band tunings · measured
Band tunings.
Every album and every song with its tuning and the pitch of the record. Tap Tune and play along.
22 albums and 247 songs from Metallica and Pantera. Every result has a Tune button.
2 bands · 22 albums · 247 songs
Pick a band
Each band page lists its albums with their tuning and pitch. Open an album for every song and a Tune button.
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Metallica
E Standard thrash, the E♭ years, Drop C on St. Anger, and a few records that run sharp.
13 albums · 151 songs · measured by TuneLit
E StandardE♭ StandardDrop C
See every album
Photo: 4TheWynne · CC BY-SA 4.0 · credits
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Pantera
Almost every record sits well below A 440, and by a different amount each time.
9 albums · 96 songs · measured by TuneLit
E StandardD Standard
See every album
Photo: Martyn Goodacre · CC BY 4.0 · credits
Tabs plus the record
The tuning, and the pitch the record really has
Tabs tell you the tuning: E Standard, Drop D, C♯ Standard. They rarely tell you that the record itself sits a few cents sharp, or 60 cents flat. That gap is why a perfectly tuned guitar can sound sour next to a song you love.
For every album here, the tuning name comes from the band, the press and the tabs. The pitch comes from TuneLit's own measurement of an original CD or LP. A Tune button opens the tuner with both already set, reference A included, so you only turn the pegs.
How sure is it?
Every tuning carries a label
Each album and song shows where its tuning comes from, so you know how far to trust it. A song shows one label: the strongest it has.
What the labels mean
- Measured
- TuneLit measured the pitch on an original CD or LP. The tuning name still comes from the sources.
- Official
- The band, a member, their producer or their guitar tech said it.
- Widely reported
- Trusted outlets, guides and tabs agree, but the band did not say it directly.
- Community
- From community tabs, or from players who tune along with the record.
- Disputed
- Sources disagree. The likeliest setting is shown; the notes name the other one.
Each song shows one label, the strongest it has, in this order. How we measure recordings →
Questions
Why does my guitar sound out of tune with the record?
Many records are not at concert pitch (A 440). Kill 'Em All runs about 16 cents sharp, and most Pantera albums sit 20 to 60 cents flat. A guitar tuned to 440 then clashes with the record. The Tune buttons set the reference A to match, so your strings line up with the song.
How does TuneLit know the pitch of a record?
We play the original CD or LP into the same kind of analysis the tuner uses: the strongest notes of each song are compared with the A 440 grid and averaged. That gives the offset in cents. The audio is never stored or published, only the numbers.
What if a song is not listed?
Most songs follow their album, so start with the album's Tune button. Every tuner on TuneLit can also shift any tuning by half steps and fine-tune it by cents, so you can match a record by ear.