Roxette · Joyride · song 5
Spending My Time tuning.
Spending My Time (Roxette, 1991) is in E Standard, about 23 cents sharp (A ≈ 446), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
23 ¢ sharp
Measured on this song itself: Tune moves every string +23 ¢.
Roxette · Joyride · 1991
About Spending My Time
Spending My Time, from Joyride (1991), is in B and in standard tuning. The main chord sheets play it without a capo; acoustic arrangements put a capo on the 2nd fret.
This is one of Roxette's sharpest songs. TuneLit measured it about 23 cents sharp on the Japanese CD (A ≈ 445.8), roughly a quarter of a semitone and about 16 cents above the rest of Joyride. The LP needle drop reads about 14 cents sharp, but the Joyride LP runs lower on every song; both copies put this song about 16 cents above its album, so the offset is in the master. Tune sets +23 ¢.
At A 440 a guitar sounds clearly flat against this record, even with every chord right, so this is a song where Tune really matters. Small Talk and Soul Deep on the same album sit just as high, while the rest stays near the album's +6 ¢, so retune when you move on. A measurement cannot say why the song is higher, and no source we found explains it.
Tip: Don't skip Tune here: set +23 ¢ first, because at A 440 even perfectly played chords 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 +23 ¢, the notes Spending My Time was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Spending My Time sits 23 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Spending My Time 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 Spending My Time 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 +23 ¢. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Spending My Time moves down 22 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 Spending My Time in?
E Standard +23 ¢: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.