Roxette · Look Sharp! · song 8
Dangerous tuning.
Dangerous (Roxette, 1988) is in E Standard, about 11 cents sharp (A ≈ 443), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
11 ¢ sharp
Measured on this song itself: Tune moves every string +11 ¢.
Roxette · Look Sharp! · 1988
About Dangerous
Dangerous, from Look Sharp! (1988), is in E and in standard tuning. The main chord sheet plays it without a capo; another uses a capo on the 2nd fret with D shapes, which gives the same notes. Jonas Isacsson, who played the electric and acoustic guitars on the album, names it among his favourites to play.
It is the one song on Look Sharp! that sits clearly above concert pitch: TuneLit measured it about 11 cents sharp on the CD (A ≈ 442.7) and about 14 on the LP, roughly 9 cents above the rest of the album on the CD and 8 on the LP. Tune sets the tuner 11 cents up. At A 440 your guitar would sound slightly flat against the record.
Because the CD and the LP show the same gap, the offset is in the master, not in one copy. The audio check hears the open low E, which fits a song in E. Go back to A 440 for the songs around it.
Tip: Tap Tune for +11 ¢, then check your open String 6 against the record: the song is in E, so the low E should lock in without a wobble.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, every string +11 ¢, the notes Dangerous was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Dangerous sits 11 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Dangerous 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 Dangerous 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 +11 ¢. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Dangerous moves down 10 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 Dangerous in?
E Standard +11 ¢: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.