Napalm Death · Scum · song 12
You Suffer tuning.
You Suffer (Napalm Death, 1987) is in D Standard at concert pitch (A 440).
Not measured yet
TuneLit has not measured this record. The tuning comes from disputed sources, at concert pitch unless they say otherwise.
Napalm Death · Scum · 1987
About You Suffer
The famous one-second song that closes side one of Scum (1987), often cited as one of the shortest songs ever recorded. It comes from the August 1986 session with Justin Broadrick on guitar, Nik Bullen on bass and vocals and Mick Harris on drums, and the whole song is a single chord. TuneLit gives it the album's D Standard, every string a whole step down (D G C F A D).
Scum is not in TuneLit's library, so nothing was measured; the tuning comes from the tabs and sources and is at concert pitch, A 440.
No tab of You Suffer names D. They name C♯ Standard, E♭ Standard or E Standard and cannot agree, so TuneLit falls back on the album's tuning. For a single chord that hardly matters: in any of those tunings you can find it by moving the shape until it matches. The side-one songs around it are split between E♭ Standard (Scum, Instinct of Survival, Human Garbage) and D Standard (Siege of Power, Control, Born on Your Knees), so you can simply stay in whichever of the two you are using for the songs around it.
Tip: Play the record a few times and slide your power-chord shape until it matches the chord; with one chord, the right fret matters more than which of the tabbed tunings you use.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to D Standard, the notes You Suffer was recorded in.
- From E Standard: Every string down a whole step. No tuner that knows D Standard? Clamp a capo across fret 2, tune to E Standard as usual, then take it off: every string drops to D Standard. Check each string again afterwards, since a capo pulls the strings a little sharp.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. You Suffer sits at concert pitch on the record, so the tuner stays at A 440.
- Then play You Suffer 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 You Suffer instead. Add your own copy, for example from your CD (it never leaves your device); the link already says the song is in D Standard. Choose E Standard at A 440 and You Suffer moves up 2 half steps, 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 You Suffer in?
D Standard: D G C F A D, low to high.