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Aerosmith · 1993 · Studio album

Get a Grip tuning.

E Standard at concert pitch (A 440), measured on the CD. 1 of 14 songs are tuned differently.

Get a Grip album cover

Album tuning

E Standard

At concert pitch (A 440), measured on the CD.

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Measured by TuneLit

At concert pitch

SourceOffsetEquivalent ASongsSpreadConfidence
CD, Geffen GEFD-24530 (1993)−0.1 ¢A 44014−3.3 to +2.2 ¢High
 Offset from concert pitch (A 440). Spread: the middle half of the songs, when four or more share the album's pitch. Confidence: how well the notes agree with one grid.

Before we measured, sources said: E Standard, with no pitch given (community).

Produced by Bruce Fairbairn, like Permanent Vacation and Pump. The tabs keep everything in E Standard except Livin' on the Edge, which drops the low string to D. TuneLit measured the CD right at concert pitch, with every song within about 7 cents of A 440. Intro is a 23-second collage of drums, voices and a Walk This Way sample, with no guitar to tune to.

14 songs · 1 tuned differently

Every song, ready to tune

Tune opens the tuner in that song's tuning, pitch included. Play along opens the song player set to that tuning, so the track plays in yours. What the labels mean

  1. 1. Intro

    E StandardMeasured

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    Notes

    A short collage that runs straight into Eat the Rich; there is nothing to tune to here.

  2. 2. Eat the Rich

    E StandardMeasured

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  3. 3. Get a Grip

    E StandardMeasured

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  4. 4. Fever

    E StandardMeasured

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  5. 5. Livin' on the Edge

    Different tuning

    Drop DMeasured

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    Notes

    How to get there from the album's E Standard: String 6 down a whole step (E → D); the other strings stay.

    Drop D: lower only the 6th string to D. TuneLit's semitone check from the audio also hears D as the lowest open string.

    Guitar World says the song was recorded in Drop D, and all three guitar parts of the main Songsterr tab, and its bass part, drop the low string to D; only the solo is written in standard.

  6. 6. Flesh

    E StandardMeasured

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  7. 7. Walk On Down

    E StandardMeasured

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  8. 8. Shut Up and Dance

    E StandardMeasured

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  9. 9. Cryin'

    E StandardMeasured

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    Notes

    The popular bass tab is written for a 5-string bass, but nothing on the guitar side changes: E Standard.

  10. 10. Gotta Love It

    E StandardMeasured

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  11. 11. Crazy

    E StandardMeasured

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  12. 12. Line Up

    E StandardMeasured

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  13. 13. Amazing

    E StandardMeasured

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  14. 14. Boogie Man

    E StandardMeasured

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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

What tuning is Get a Grip in?

Aerosmith recorded Get a Grip (1993) in E Standard at concert pitch (A 440), measured by TuneLit on the CD. Livin' on the Edge uses Drop D.