Deftones · Adrenaline · song 1
Bored tuning.
Bored (Deftones, 1995) is in Drop D, about 7 cents sharp (A ≈ 442), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
7 ¢ sharp
Measured on this song itself: Tune moves every string +7 ¢.
Deftones · Adrenaline · 1995
About Bored
Bored opens Adrenaline (1995), Deftones' debut, and was its second single. It is a slow, heavy song built on a grinding low riff that leans on two notes a half step apart, with Chino Moreno's quiet verses breaking into shouts. Stephen Carpenter played it on a six-string, and TuneLit lists it in Drop D (D A D G B E): only String 6 moves, a whole step down from E.
TuneLit measured the US CD of Adrenaline about 7 ¢ sharp (A ≈ 441.7). Bored itself reads about 13 ¢ sharp, but with medium confidence, so its Tune button uses the album value, Drop D +7 ¢. At plain A 440 your guitar would sit a little flat against the record, which you can hear on the long sustained chords.
The catch is the tabs. The most-viewed one writes Bored in E Standard, while a Songsterr version and the best-rated Guitar Pro tab on Ultimate Guitar use Drop D. The CD settles it: the low notes sit on D and E♭ in two octaves and a low E never sounds, and neither a guitar nor a bass in E Standard can reach that D. TuneLit's check from the audio agrees with Drop D. If you learned the song from an E Standard tab, the main riff moves to the open low D and the first fret.
Tip: Drop String 6 to D first, then play the main riff on the open string and the first fret and listen for the D and E♭ of the record.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to Drop D, every string +7 ¢, the notes Bored was recorded in.
- From the album's E Standard: String 6 down a whole step (E → D); the other strings stay.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Bored sits 7 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Bored 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 Bored instead. Add your own copy, for example from your CD (it never leaves your device); the link already says the song is in Drop D +7 ¢. Choose Drop D at A 440 and Bored moves down 6 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 Bored in?
Drop D +7 ¢: D A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.