Pantera · Vulgar Display of Power · song 4
Fucking Hostile tuning.
Fucking Hostile (Pantera, 1992) is in E Standard at A 426, about 57 cents flat, measured by TuneLit from the record.
Song tuning
E Standard A 426
About 57 cents flat (A 426).
Measured by TuneLit
57 ¢ flat
The album's value, measured on the CD: Tune sets the reference A to 426.
Pantera · Vulgar Display of Power · 1992
About Fucking Hostile
Fucking Hostile is the fast, thrash-flavored song on Vulgar Display of Power (1992). Like Mouth for War and Rise it is tabbed in E Standard (E A D G B E), in Dimebag Darrell's flat version of it.
TuneLit measured the album about 57 ¢ flat (A ≈ 425.7) on the CD, which matches the famous claim, from Dime's guitar tech, that his tuning sat about 60 ¢ low. This song reads the same as the album, so its Tune button sets E Standard at A 426. A normal A 440 tuner would read your low string as about D♯ +43, and TuneLit's check from the audio agrees that the strings are E tuned flat.
Play the album in order and you retune twice around this song. Walk, just before it, is a whole step down in D Standard, so bring all six strings back up to E while keeping the reference at A 426. This Love, right after, sits lower again, at A 422.
Tip: Keep A 426 from Walk, raise all six strings a whole step back to E, and check against the opening riff.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard at A 426, the notes Fucking Hostile was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Fucking Hostile sits 57 cents flat on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much sharp against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Fucking Hostile 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 Fucking Hostile instead. Add your own copy, for example from your CD (it never leaves your device); the link already says the song is in E Standard at A 426. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Fucking Hostile moves up 57 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 Fucking Hostile in?
E Standard at A 426: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.