Korn · Issues · song 2
Falling Away from Me tuning.
Falling Away from Me (Korn, 1999) is in A Standard at concert pitch (A 440), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Song tuning
A Standard
At concert pitch (A 440).
Tune like thisPlay alongIssues
Bass: 5-string bass A Standard Tune bass
Measured by TuneLit
At concert pitch
The album's value, measured on the CD.
Korn · Issues · 1999
About Falling Away from Me
Falling Away from Me was the lead single from Issues (1999), with a quiet, clean verse and a crushing chorus. The guitars use Korn's usual A D G C F A D. Head's clean part in the Songsterr tab stays on the top three strings, high and sparse, while his distorted part is mostly A and G♯ on String 2 and String 3, bent again and again, over the open low A.
Fieldy's bass carries the weight: in the tab almost two thirds of his notes are the open A of his 5-string (A D G C F), and on the record that low A0 is the strongest note TuneLit hears. The album sits within a few cents of A 440 (about 3 ¢ sharp), and the song reads about 9 ¢ high, not far enough from its album for its own setting, so Tune uses A Standard at A 440. TuneLit's audio check confirms the A as the lowest open string.
If the chorus sounds a hair flat against the record, that is the song's small extra offset; raise the reference a couple of cents by ear rather than retuning a string. The clean verse is the place to tune by ear, because nothing else covers those high notes.
Tip: Tune to A Standard at A 440, then check your top three strings against the clean verse before the chorus hits.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to A Standard, the notes Falling Away from Me was recorded in.
- From B Standard: Every string down a whole step. No tuner that knows A Standard? Clamp a capo across fret 2, tune to B Standard as usual, then take it off: every string drops to A Standard. Check each string again afterwards, since a capo pulls the strings a little sharp.
- Turn String 7 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Falling Away from Me sits at concert pitch on the record, so the tuner stays at A 440.
- Then play Falling Away from Me along with the record: its lowest open note and your String 7 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 Falling Away from Me instead. Add your own copy, for example from your CD (it never leaves your device); the link already says the song is in A Standard. Choose B Standard at A 440 and Falling Away from Me moves up a half step and 97 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 Falling Away from Me in?
A Standard: A D G C F A D, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.