Roxette · Crash! Boom! Bang! · song 5
Sleeping in My Car tuning.
Sleeping in My Car (Roxette, 1994) is in E Standard, about 24 cents sharp (A ≈ 446), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Song tuning
E Standard +24 ¢
About 24 cents sharp (A ≈ 446).
Measured by TuneLit
24 ¢ sharp
Measured on this song itself: Tune moves every string +24 ¢.
Roxette · Crash! Boom! Bang! · 1994
About Sleeping in My Car
Sleeping in My Car, from Crash! Boom! Bang! (1994), was the last song written for the album, and like all of Roxette's catalogue it is in standard tuning. The album credits five guitarists: Per Gessle, Jonas Isacsson, Mats Persson, Pelle Sirén and Janne Oldaeus.
The album sits at concert pitch, but this song does not: TuneLit measured it about 24 cents sharp on the CD (A ≈ 446.1) and about 26 on the LP, some 21 cents above the rest of the album. That is about a quarter of a semitone, so a guitar tuned to 440 sounds plainly flat against it. Tune sets +24 ¢.
The CD and the LP agree, so the offset is in the master. A measurement cannot tell whether a tape ran fast or the mix was sped up, and no source we found explains it. The First Girl on the Moon on the same album sits even higher, about 30 cents sharp, while the title track sits at A 440, so retune between songs.
Tip: Tap Tune for +24 ¢ before you play a chord; at A 440 the whole song will sound flat against the record.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, every string +24 ¢, the notes Sleeping in My Car was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Sleeping in My Car sits 24 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Sleeping in My Car 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 Sleeping in My Car 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 +24 ¢. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Sleeping in My Car moves down 24 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 Sleeping in My Car in?
E Standard +24 ¢: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.