Queens of the Stone Age · Rated R · song 1
Feel Good Hit of the Summer tuning.
Feel Good Hit of the Summer (Queens of the Stone Age, 2000) is in C Standard 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.
Queens of the Stone Age · Rated R · 2000
About Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Feel Good Hit of the Summer opens Rated R (2000), with Rob Halford of Judas Priest among the backing singers. It is in C Standard (C F B♭ E♭ G C) on Songsterr, like most of the album, and it is about as simple as a riff gets: in the tab the guitar plays a B♭ power chord over and over, and the bass stays on B♭ nine notes out of ten.
TuneLit measured the album about 3 cents sharp, which counts as concert pitch, and this song at 0, so Tune opens C Standard at A 440. The audio check of the low string leaned towards C♯, but the song never plays its open low C, which is the check's known weak spot, so the database keeps the tabs' C Standard.
One UG chord sheet says to tune a half step down instead; with a B♭ chord you can play the song in almost any tuning, but the riff's shape and the slack low strings belong to C Standard. Since nearly the whole song is one chord, the challenge is stamina and steady time: keep the riff even from the first bar to the last.
Tip: Tune to C Standard and practise the B♭ riff until it stays even for the whole song.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to C Standard, the notes Feel Good Hit of the Summer was recorded in.
- From E Standard: Every string down 4 half steps. No tuner that knows C Standard? Clamp a capo across fret 4, tune to E Standard as usual, then take it off: every string drops to C 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. Feel Good Hit of the Summer sits at concert pitch on the record, so the tuner stays at A 440.
- Then play Feel Good Hit of the Summer 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 Feel Good Hit of the Summer instead. Add your own copy, for example from your CD (it never leaves your device); the link already says the song is in C Standard. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Feel Good Hit of the Summer moves up 3 half steps and 97 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 Feel Good Hit of the Summer in?
C Standard: C F B♭ E♭ G C, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.