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Korn · Untouchables · song 1

Here to Stay tuning.

Here to Stay (Korn, 2002) is in A Standard, about 9 cents sharp (A ≈ 442), measured by TuneLit from the record.

Untouchables album cover

Song tuning

A Standard +9 ¢

About 9 cents sharp (A ≈ 442).

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Bass: 5-string bass A Standard +9 ¢ Tune bass

Measured by TuneLit

9 ¢ sharp

The album's value, measured on the CD: Tune moves every string +9 ¢.

Korn · Untouchables · 2002

About Here to Stay

Here to Stay opens Untouchables (2002) and won Korn a Grammy for Best Metal Performance. It is a riff song in the purest Korn sense: in Munky's Songsterr part more than two thirds of the notes are on String 7 of a 7-string tuned A D G C F A D, and more than a quarter are the open A alone, with frets 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 around it.

TuneLit measured most of Untouchables about 9 ¢ sharp (A ≈ 442.2), and Here to Stay reads a little higher still, about 14 ¢, though not clearly enough to get a setting of its own. Tune opens A Standard +9 ¢. The check from the audio agrees, firmly, that the lowest open string is the A.

Untouchables is the least even Korn album: a few songs sit about 8 ¢ flat and Alone I Break is half a step lower altogether. If you play the album straight through, Here to Stay's setting does not carry over to every track, so check each song's Tune button. On a 6-string, this is the hardest song to fake in D Standard, because the riff lives almost entirely on the low A.

Tip: Tune to A Standard +9 ¢ and spend a minute on String 7 alone: nearly the whole riff is played there.

Step by step

Tune your guitar like the record

  1. Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to A Standard, every string +9 ¢, the notes Here to Stay was recorded in.
  2. 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.
  3. Turn String 7 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Here to Stay sits 9 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
  4. Then play Here to Stay along with the record: its lowest open note and your String 7 should ring together without a wobble.

A Standard: notes and frequencies →

Or the other way round

Move the record into your tuning

Rather keep your guitar as it is? Let Play along move Here to Stay 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 +9 ¢. Choose B Standard at A 440 and Here to Stay moves up a half step and 91 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 Here to Stay in?

A Standard +9 ¢: A D G C F A D, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.