Deftones · White Pony · song 10
Change (In the House of Flies) tuning.
Change (In the House of Flies) (Deftones, 2000) is in Drop C, about 16 cents sharp (A ≈ 444), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
16 ¢ sharp
Measured on this song itself: Tune moves every string +16 ¢.
Deftones · White Pony · 2000
About Change (In the House of Flies)
Change (In the House of Flies) is one of the two hit singles from White Pony (2000). It is a slow, hypnotic song built on a clean, rolling guitar figure, with Chino Moreno's quiet verse vocal and a huge, distorted chorus. Chino plays the second guitar, and the tabs put both guitars and the bass in the album's Drop C (C G C F A D).
TuneLit measured the White Pony CD at concert pitch overall, but Change reads about 16 ¢ sharp (A ≈ 444.1), one of three songs on the album that sit that high, so it has its own value: Drop C +16 ¢. The red-cover limited edition, the reissue and the 2020 remaster read the same within a cent, so the offset is on the master. TuneLit's check from the audio agrees that the lowest string is C.
A version of the tab written for E Standard is also widely viewed; it lets you play the shapes without retuning but not with the record. For play-along, the 16 ¢ matters: the clean intro is exposed, and a guitar at A 440 sounds noticeably flat against it. Tap Tune, or set the reference to A 444 by hand before tuning to Drop C.
Tip: Set the reference to A 444 first, tune to Drop C, then check the open low C and the ringing top strings against the clean intro.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to Drop C, every string +16 ¢, the notes Change (In the House of Flies) was recorded in.
- From E Standard: String 6 down 4 half steps (E → C), String 5 down a whole step (A → G), String 4 down a whole step (D → C), String 3 down a whole step (G → F), String 2 down a whole step (B → A), String 1 down a whole step (E → D).
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Change (In the House of Flies) sits 16 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Change (In the House of Flies) 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 Change (In the House of Flies) instead. Add your own copy, for example from your CD (it never leaves your device); the link already says the song is in Drop C +16 ¢. Choose Drop D at A 440 and Change (In the House of Flies) moves up a half step and 84 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 Change (In the House of Flies) in?
Drop C +16 ¢: C G C F A D, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.