Korn · Take a Look in the Mirror · song 12
Y'all Want a Single tuning.
Y'all Want a Single (Korn, 2003) is in A Standard, about 11 cents sharp (A ≈ 443), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Song tuning
A Standard +11 ¢
About 11 cents sharp (A ≈ 443).
Tune like thisPlay alongTake a Look in the Mirror
Bass: 5-string bass A Standard +11 ¢ Tune bass
Measured by TuneLit
11 ¢ sharp
The album's value, measured on the CD: Tune moves every string +11 ¢.
Korn · Take a Look in the Mirror · 2003
About Y'all Want a Single
Y'all Want a Single is Korn's swipe at the music industry, from Take a Look in the Mirror (2003): a blunt, chanted song on a simple low riff. It is played on 7-strings in A D G C F A D, and almost everything happens on String 7. In Munky's Songsterr part more than three quarters of the notes are on that string: the open A, the third fret (C) and the first fret (B♭).
On the record, the open A is the strongest low note TuneLit hears. The album measures about 11 ¢ sharp on the CD (A ≈ 442.8) and this song reads about 16 ¢ high, close enough to share the album's setting, so Tune opens A Standard +11 ¢. The check from the audio agrees that the lowest open string is the A.
It is a good song to learn the Korn feel on, because one string does nearly all the work. Keep your picking hand loose: on a string tuned this low, hitting hard pulls the open A sharp at the start of each note. Bass players will find several tabs in other tunings, including a Drop C version for a 4-string; the record is a 5-string a whole step down.
Tip: Tune to A Standard +11 ¢ and play the open A, the third fret and the first fret of String 7 slowly against the record.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to A Standard, every string +11 ¢, the notes Y'all Want a Single 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. Y'all Want a Single sits 11 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Y'all Want a Single 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 Y'all Want a Single 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 +11 ¢. Choose B Standard at A 440 and Y'all Want a Single moves up a half step and 89 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 Y'all Want a Single in?
A Standard +11 ¢: A D G C F A D, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.