Pantera · Vulgar Display of Power · song 5
This Love tuning.
This Love (Pantera, 1992) is in E Standard at A 422, about 73 cents flat, measured by TuneLit from the record.
Song tuning
E Standard A 422
About 73 cents flat (A 422).
Measured by TuneLit
73 ¢ flat
Measured on this song itself: Tune sets the reference A to 422.
Pantera · Vulgar Display of Power · 1992
About This Love
This Love, from Vulgar Display of Power (1992), is Pantera's dark ballad: clean, eerie verses that explode into a crushing chorus. Its main tab is in E♭ Standard, while other transcriptions use E Standard, and once you know the record's pitch you can see why both exist.
TuneLit measured the song about 73 ¢ below E (A ≈ 421.9) on the CD, with high confidence, some 15 ¢ lower than the rest of the album (A ≈ 426). That is the same pitch as E♭ tuned about 27 ¢ sharp, which leans toward the E♭ tabs. TuneLit sets it as E Standard at A 422, and the song's Tune button does exactly that.
Whichever tab you read, the strings end up in the same place once the reference is right: E Standard at A 422 and E♭ Standard +27 ¢ are two names for the same pitches. What does not work is plain E♭ at A 440, which sits noticeably flat of the record, or keeping the A 426 from Mouth for War and Fucking Hostile, which is too high.
Tip: Use the song's own A 422, lower than the rest of the album, and check it against the clean verse arpeggios.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard at A 422, the notes This Love was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. This Love sits 73 cents flat on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much sharp against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play This Love 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 This Love 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 422. Choose E Standard at A 440 and This Love moves up 73 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 This Love in?
E Standard at A 422: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.