Guns N' Roses · 1991 · Studio album
Use Your Illusion I tuning.
E♭ Standard, about 5 cents flat (A ≈ 439), measured on the CD. 1 of 16 songs are tuned differently.
Album tuning
E♭ Standard −5 ¢
About 5 cents flat (A ≈ 439), measured on the CD.
MeasuredCommunity
Measured by TuneLit
5 ¢ flat
| Source | Offset | Equivalent A | Songs | Spread | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD, Mobile Fidelity UDCD 711 (1997 gold remaster) | −5.0 ¢ | A 438.7 | 16 | −5.4 to −0.4 ¢ | High |
Before we measured, sources said: E♭ Standard, with no pitch given (community).
Slash and Izzy Stradlin kept E♭ Standard for the whole album; Slash says he used about 20 different guitars on the two Illusion records, a Dobro, a banjo and acoustics among them. The Garden is the one song with its own tuning: one acoustic part drops the low string to C♯. Bad Obsession adds a slide part in open G. TuneLit measured the album about 5 ¢ flat (A ≈ 438.7), with no song far enough off to need its own value.
16 songs · 1 tuned differently
Every song, ready to tune
Tune opens the tuner in that song's tuning, pitch included. Play along opens the song player set to that tuning, so the track plays in yours. What the labels mean
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1. Right Next Door to Hell
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
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2. Dust N' Bones
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
Notes
Izzy Stradlin sings lead.
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3. Live and Let Die
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
Notes
The Paul McCartney and Wings song, tabbed in E♭ Standard like the rest.
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4. Don't Cry (Original)
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
Notes
The music is the same as the alternate-lyrics version on Use Your Illusion II; only the vocals differ.
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5. Perfect Crime
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
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6. You Ain't the First
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
Notes
Slash told Guitar Player that his Dobro here is in standard tuning rather than an open slide tuning; the tabs put every part a half step down with the band.
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7. Bad Obsession
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
Notes
The riffs are in E♭ Standard. Slash played the slide on a Travis Bean in open G with the low string taken off (G D G B D), a trick he picked up from Keith Richards; one Songsterr transcription writes that part in open G a half step down, C♯ F♯ C♯ F♯ A♯ C♯.
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8. Back Off Bitch
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
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9. Double Talkin' Jive
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
Notes
Ends with a classical guitar solo Slash played on a Ramírez.
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10. November Rain
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
Notes
Slash's solos are in E♭ Standard over Axl Rose's piano. The second most-viewed Songsterr version is rewritten for E Standard and sounds a half step sharp against the record.
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11. The Garden
Different tuning
Drop C♯ −5 ¢Measured
Notes
How to get there from the album's E♭ Standard: String 6 down a whole step (E♭ → C♯); the other strings stay.
Alice Cooper sings with Axl Rose. Wikipedia credits the acoustic guitars to Slash and co-writer West Arkeen. The electric guitars are in E♭ Standard; the dropped low string only matters for the acoustic part, and TuneLit's audio check hears that low C♯ often on the record.
Songsterr writes one acoustic part in Drop C♯ (C♯ G♯ C♯ F♯ A♯ D♯) and every electric part and the bass in E♭ Standard. Only the low string differs.
Bass: Bass E♭ Standard −5 ¢ Tune bass
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12. Garden of Eden
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
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13. Don't Damn Me
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
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14. Bad Apples
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
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15. Dead Horse
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
Notes
Axl Rose plays the acoustic intro.
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16. Coma
E♭ Standard −5 ¢Measured
What the labels mean
- Measured
- TuneLit measured the pitch on an original CD or LP. The tuning name still comes from the sources.
- Official
- The band, a member, their producer or their guitar tech said it.
- Widely reported
- Trusted outlets, guides and tabs agree, but the band did not say it directly.
- Community
- From community tabs, or from players who tune along with the record.
- Disputed
- Sources disagree. The likeliest setting is shown; the notes name the other one.
Each song shows one label, the strongest it has, in this order. How we measure recordings →
Questions
What tuning is Use Your Illusion I in?
Guns N' Roses recorded Use Your Illusion I (1991) in E♭ Standard, about 5 cents flat (A ≈ 439), measured by TuneLit on the CD. The Garden uses Drop C♯ −5 ¢.