Aerosmith · Get a Grip · song 9
Cryin' tuning.
Cryin' (Aerosmith, 1993) is in E Standard at concert pitch (A 440), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
At concert pitch
The album's value, measured on the CD.
Aerosmith · Get a Grip · 1993
About Cryin'
Cryin', from Get a Grip (1993), is one of the album's three big slow singles, and the guitars are in plain E Standard. The tabs of the song agree, and TuneLit's audio check hears the open low E on the record, so the tuning is not in doubt.
TuneLit measured Cryin' about 4 cents flat, against an album that sits right on A 440. Four cents is at the edge of what anyone can hear, so Tune opens plain E Standard at concert pitch. If a sustained chord beats slowly against the record, nudging Fine-tune a few cents down is all it takes.
One thing can confuse you if you look at the bass part: the popular bass tab is written for a 5-string bass, so it shows an extra low string. That changes nothing for the guitar, which stays in E Standard. On the same album only Livin' on the Edge needs a retune, to Drop D; Crazy and Amazing, the other two ballads, share this song's tuning and pitch.
Tip: Ignore the extra low string of the 5-string bass tab: tune the guitar to E Standard at A 440 and play along.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, the notes Cryin' was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Cryin' sits at concert pitch on the record, so the tuner stays at A 440.
- Then play Cryin' along with the record: its lowest open note and your String 6 should ring together without a wobble.
Or the other way round
Move the record into your tuning
Rather keep your guitar as it is? Let Play along move Cryin' instead. Add your own copy, for example from your CD (it never leaves your device); the link already says the song is in E Standard. Cryin' is already in E Standard at A 440, so nothing moves. Slow it down or loop a few bars to learn it, and save the result as a WAV file.
Questions
What tuning is Cryin' in?
E Standard: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.