Queens of the Stone Age · Era Vulgaris · song 7
Make It wit Chu tuning.
Make It wit Chu (Queens of the Stone Age, 2007) is in E Standard, about 6 cents sharp (A ≈ 442), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
6 ¢ sharp
The album's value, measured on the CD: Tune moves every string +6 ¢.
Queens of the Stone Age · Era Vulgaris · 2007
About Make It wit Chu
Make It wit Chu, from Era Vulgaris (2007), first appeared on The Desert Sessions before the band recorded it again for the album, with Brody Dalle on backing vocals. It is in plain E Standard on Songsterr and on the most-voted UG tabs, a slow groove built on a few open chords, with the bass moving between E, A and C.
TuneLit measured Era Vulgaris about 6 cents sharp (A ≈ 441.5). This song reads closer to concert pitch, about 1 cent flat, but the difference is too small to give it its own value, so Tune uses the album's A 441.5. Either way you are within a few cents of a normally tuned guitar.
One popular UG tab describes itself as a standard-tuning version for people who do not want to tune down to C. On this song that warning does not apply: the band's E Standard and the tab's are the same. The chords are simple; the feel is in the slow, laid-back strumming and leaving space for the vocal.
Tip: Tune to E Standard and let the open chords ring; the groove matters more than any fill.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, every string +6 ¢, the notes Make It wit Chu was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Make It wit Chu sits 6 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Make It wit Chu 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 Make It wit Chu 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 +6 ¢. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Make It wit Chu moves down 6 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 Make It wit Chu in?
E Standard +6 ¢: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.