Linkin Park · Minutes to Midnight · song 4
Bleed It Out tuning.
Bleed It Out (Linkin Park, 2007) is in Drop D at concert pitch (A 440), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
At concert pitch
The album's value, measured on the CD.
Linkin Park · Minutes to Midnight · 2007
About Bleed It Out
Bleed It Out, a single from Minutes to Midnight (2007), is a fast song with Mike Shinoda rapping the verses. The guitars are in Drop D (D A D G B E): the Songsterr tab writes a lead part for Brad Delson and rhythm parts for Delson and Shinoda in that tuning, and an Ultimate Guitar tab agrees.
Measured on the record, Bleed It Out is about 2 cents flat, and Tune opens Drop D with the reference left at 440. The semitone check hears the open D and nothing under it (0.999). The low end moves around more than in most Linkin Park songs: B, F♯, C♯, E and D all take a share, so the song is easier to tune for before you start than against the record.
At this tempo a freshly dropped 6th string bends sharp on every hard accent and slowly settles flat, so stretch new strings and re-check the D after a couple of passes. Bleed It Out shares its tuning with Given Up, What I've Done and The Little Things Give You Away, so a whole Minutes to Midnight set needs only one change of tuning, for the four songs in Drop C♯ (Shadow of the Day, No More Sorrow, In Between, In Pieces).
Tip: Drop the 6th string to D at A 440, stretch it in, and re-check it after the first verse.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to Drop D, the notes Bleed It Out was recorded in.
- From E Standard: String 6 down a whole step (E → D); the other strings stay.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Bleed It Out sits at concert pitch on the record, so the tuner stays at A 440.
- Then play Bleed It Out along with the record: its lowest open note and your String 6 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 Bleed It Out instead. Add your own copy, for example from your CD (it never leaves your device); the link already says the song is in Drop D. Choose Drop D at A 440 and Bleed It Out moves up 1 cent, 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 Bleed It Out in?
Drop D: D A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.