Aerosmith · Toys in the Attic · song 4
Walk This Way tuning.
Walk This Way (Aerosmith, 1975) 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 · Toys in the Attic · 1975
About Walk This Way
Walk This Way, from Toys in the Attic (1975), is one of the most-played Aerosmith tabs anywhere, and it is plain E Standard from start to finish. Joe Perry has said the riff moves from the key of C to E and back without any retuning, and the popular transcriptions agree on standard tuning.
TuneLit measured the Toys in the Attic CD a few cents flat overall, close enough that Tune opens plain E Standard at A 440. Walk This Way itself reads about 7 cents flat, a little lower than the album, and TuneLit's audio check hears the open low E at that pitch, which confirms the tuning. Most players won't notice 7 cents, but on headphones you may hear a slow wobble against the record.
The tab is not the problem here; the neighbours are. On the same album the title track sits about 9 cents sharp and Sweet Emotion about 13 cents flat, so if you play the record through, retune between songs. The 1986 remake with Run-DMC is a different recording, and TuneLit has not measured it.
Tip: Start at A 440 and, if the riff wobbles against the record, lower Fine-tune by about 7 cents to sit where this song does.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, the notes Walk This Way was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Walk This Way sits at concert pitch on the record, so the tuner stays at A 440.
- Then play Walk This Way 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 Walk This Way 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. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Walk This Way moves up 4 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 Walk This Way in?
E Standard: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.