Foo Fighters · One by One · song 4
Times Like These tuning.
Times Like These (Foo Fighters, 2002) is in E Standard, about 10 cents flat (A ≈ 437), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
10 ¢ flat
The album's value, measured on the CD: Tune moves every string −10 ¢.
Foo Fighters · One by One · 2002
About Times Like These
Times Like These, from One by One (2002), is in E Standard in the main tabs. Its riff is built on an open D chord shape, and that is where some players go wrong: the D sound comes from the chord, not from a dropped String 6, so the low string stays at E.
One by One is the flattest Foo Fighters album. TuneLit measured the CD about 10 cents flat (A ≈ 437.4), with its songs between about 5 and 13 cents flat, and Tune sets the album's −10 ¢ for this song. Times Like These itself reads about 7 cents flat, so the setting puts you within about 3 cents of it. At A 440 your guitar would sit a little sharp of the record, enough to hear on sustained chords. The audio check hears the open low E, which confirms the tuning.
Half the album is in Drop D (Low, Halo, Overdrive, Burn Away), so it is easy to arrive at this song with String 6 still on D. Bring it back to E: the open D shape lives on the higher strings and does not need a low D.
Tip: Leave String 6 on E, play the riff's open D shape on the higher strings, and tap Tune for the album's −10 ¢ first.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, every string −10 ¢, the notes Times Like These was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Times Like These sits 10 cents flat on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much sharp against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Times Like These 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 Times Like These 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 −10 ¢. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Times Like These moves up 10 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 Times Like These in?
E Standard −10 ¢: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.