Korn · The Serenity of Suffering · song 2
Rotting in Vain tuning.
Rotting in Vain (Korn, 2016) is in A Standard, about 8 cents flat (A ≈ 438), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Song tuning
A Standard −8 ¢
About 8 cents flat (A ≈ 438).
Tune like thisPlay alongThe Serenity of Suffering
Bass: 5-string bass A Standard −8 ¢ Tune bass
Measured by TuneLit
8 ¢ flat
Measured on this song itself: Tune moves every string −8 ¢.
Korn · The Serenity of Suffering · 2016
About Rotting in Vain
Rotting in Vain was the first single from The Serenity of Suffering (2016), a heavy, driving song with Head back on second guitar. Head has said the album was first written on 8-strings before the band went back to 7-strings in their regular tuning, A D G C F A D, and every Songsterr tab of it uses that tuning. In the main part the open A is one of the two most common notes, with frets 1, 3, 5 and 7 of String 7 around it.
TuneLit measured the album at concert pitch, but Rotting in Vain reads about 8 ¢ flat (A ≈ 438), clearly enough below its neighbours to get a setting of its own: Tune opens A Standard −8 ¢. TuneLit's audio check hears the same low A that the tabs use.
Eight cents is small, but a guitar tuned to plain A 440 against this record beats audibly with the bass on every sustained low A. Insane, the song before it on the album, measures about 12 ¢ sharp, so if you play the two together you need to retune between them.
Tip: Tap Tune for A Standard −8 ¢ and check the open A of String 7 against the opening riff.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to A Standard, every string −8 ¢, the notes Rotting in Vain 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. Rotting in Vain sits 8 cents flat on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much sharp against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Rotting in Vain 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 Rotting in Vain 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 −8 ¢. Choose B Standard at A 440 and Rotting in Vain moves up 2 half steps and 8 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 Rotting in Vain in?
A Standard −8 ¢: A D G C F A D, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.