Foo Fighters · There Is Nothing Left to Lose · song 3
Learn to Fly tuning.
Learn to Fly (Foo Fighters, 1999) is in E Standard at concert pitch (A 440), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Song tuning
E Standard
At concert pitch (A 440).
Measured by TuneLit
At concert pitch
The album's value, measured on the CD.
Foo Fighters · There Is Nothing Left to Lose · 1999
About Learn to Fly
Learn to Fly, from There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999), comes from the album Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel and Taylor Hawkins made as a trio in Grohl's basement in Virginia. It is plain E Standard in every main tab, with nothing dropped and no capo.
TuneLit measured the song about 3 cents sharp, on one of the most consistent records in the Foo Fighters catalogue: the whole CD sits within a few cents of A 440. Three cents is below what anyone hears in a band mix, so Tune opens E Standard at concert pitch. The audio check hears the open low E on the record, which confirms the tuning.
The album around it is less simple. Stacked Actors, the opener, drops String 6 all the way to A, Live-In Skin and Headwires are in Drop D, and M.I.A. uses an unusual D A D G A E from a single tab. If you play the record through, check the tuning on each song; for Learn to Fly, everything goes back to E Standard.
Tip: Tune all six strings to E Standard at A 440; if String 6 is still low from Stacked Actors or a Drop D song, bring it back up to E first.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, the notes Learn to Fly was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Learn to Fly sits at concert pitch on the record, so the tuner stays at A 440.
- Then play Learn to Fly 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 Learn to Fly 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 Learn to Fly moves down 1 cent, 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 Learn to Fly in?
E Standard: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.