Foo Fighters · In Your Honor · song 3
Best of You tuning.
Best of You (Foo Fighters, 2005) 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.
Foo Fighters · In Your Honor · 2005
About Best of You
Best of You is on the loud first disc of In Your Honor (2005), a double album with one rock disc and one mostly acoustic disc, recorded on analog tape. It is in plain E Standard in every main tab, and TuneLit's audio check hears the open low E on the record.
In Your Honor has two pitches. About half its songs sit within a few cents of A 440 and half sit 5 to 8 cents flat, so TuneLit's album value lands between them, about 3 cents flat (A ≈ 439.2), which counts as concert pitch. Best of You belongs to the group close to A 440: TuneLit measured it about 3 cents flat. Tune opens E Standard at A 440, and the record and your guitar will agree.
Watch the songs around it if you play the disc through. Hell keeps the guitars in E Standard but drops the bass to D, and the flatter group, which includes Hell, The Last Song, Free Me and Resolve, may need Fine-tune nudged a few cents down. Best of You itself needs nothing.
Tip: Tune to E Standard at A 440; if the big sustained chords beat slowly against the record, lower Fine-tune by about 3 cents.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, the notes Best of You was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Best of You sits at concert pitch on the record, so the tuner stays at A 440.
- Then play Best of You 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 Best of You 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 Best of You moves up 3 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 Best of You in?
E Standard: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.