Aerosmith · Toys in the Attic · song 6
Sweet Emotion tuning.
Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith, 1975) is in E Standard, about 13 cents flat (A ≈ 437), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Song tuning
E Standard −13 ¢
About 13 cents flat (A ≈ 437).
Measured by TuneLit
13 ¢ flat
Measured on this song itself: Tune moves every string −13 ¢.
Aerosmith · Toys in the Attic · 1975
About Sweet Emotion
Sweet Emotion, from Toys in the Attic (1975), is built on Tom Hamilton's bass riff, with Joe Perry's talk box line riding over it. The guitars are in plain E Standard, as every popular tab says, and TuneLit's audio check hears the open low E on the record.
What sets this song apart is its pitch. TuneLit measured it about 13 cents flat (A ≈ 436.7), while the album as a whole sits only a few cents under A 440, so Sweet Emotion gets a setting of its own. A guitar tuned to a normal 440 tuner sounds slightly sharp against the record, enough to make long notes beat. Tune sets the tuner 13 cents down for you.
If you play the album in order, watch the jumps: the title track sits about 9 cents sharp and Walk This Way about 7 cents flat, so Sweet Emotion needs its own retune. A Japanese CD made from the same masters gives the same −13 ¢, so the offset is in the tapes, not in one pressing.
Tip: Tap Tune for −13 ¢, then check your low strings against Tom Hamilton's bass riff, which gives you a steady reference all the way through.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, every string −13 ¢, the notes Sweet Emotion was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Sweet Emotion sits 13 cents flat on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much sharp against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Sweet Emotion 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 Sweet Emotion 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 −13 ¢. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Sweet Emotion moves up 13 cents, at its own speed. Slow it down or loop a few bars to learn it, and save the result as a WAV file.
Questions
What tuning is Sweet Emotion in?
E Standard −13 ¢: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.