Roxette · 1992 · Studio album
Tourism tuning.
E Standard, about 5 cents sharp (A ≈ 441), measured on the CD and the LP. 2 of 16 songs are tuned differently.
Album tuning
E Standard +5 ¢
About 5 cents sharp (A ≈ 441), measured on the CD and the LP.
MeasuredWidely reported
Measured by TuneLit
5 ¢ sharp
| Source | Offset | Equivalent A | Songs | Spread | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD, Toshiba-EMI Japan TOCP-7334 (1992) Used for the Tune buttons | +5.1 ¢ | A 441.3 | 16 | +1.5 to +5.9 ¢ | High |
| 2LP needle drop, EMI (1992) | +4.7 ¢ | A 441.2 | 16 | +1.8 to +5.6 ¢ | High |
Before we measured, sources said: E Standard, with no pitch given (widely reported).
A tour album: live on stage are The Look and Joyride (Sydney, December 1991) and Things Will Never Be the Same (Zürich, November 1991); Never Is a Long Time was played in an empty São Paulo nightclub; Here Comes the Weekend and So Far Away were recorded in a Buenos Aires hotel room. The other ten are studio recordings, including a new country-style It Must Have Been Love. The live Things Will Never Be the Same sits about 12 cents flat; the rest stays close to the album's +5 ¢.
16 songs · 2 tuned differently
Every song, ready to tune
Tune opens the tuner in that song's tuning, pitch included. Play along opens the song player set to that tuning, so the track plays in yours. What the labels mean
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1. How Do You Do!
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Studio (Halmstad and Stockholm, spring 1992). In C, standard tuning, no capo.
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2. Fingertips
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Studio, recorded in Rio de Janeiro in May 1992.
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3. The Look
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Live, Sydney Entertainment Centre, 13 December 1991. About 10 cents sharp on the CD and 11 on the LP, a little above the album value.
Measured on its own, about 4 cents above the album value on the CD and 7 on the LP, close enough to share the album value of +5 ¢.
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4. The Heart Shaped Sea
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Studio, Ocean Way in Los Angeles, March 1992, with pedal steel. In D. One chord sheet says it is tuned to E♭, but its chords already match the record in standard tuning.
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5. The Rain
Different pitch
E StandardMeasured
Notes
Studio (Stockholm, June 1992). At concert pitch, about 6 cents under the album value on both copies.
Measured on its own: concert pitch on the CD and the LP.
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6. Keep Me Waiting
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Studio, Stockholm, May 1992. In G minor, as the chord sheet writes it.
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7. It Must Have Been Love
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
A new country-style version recorded at Ocean Way in Los Angeles in 1992, with Greg Leisz on pedal steel, opened by a short live clip from Santiago. At concert pitch on the CD.
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8. Cinnamon Street
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Studio (Stockholm and Copenhagen, 1992).
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9. Never Is a Long Time
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Played live with no audience in The 150 Nightclub, São Paulo, May 1992. At concert pitch. The chord sheet we found is written a semitone below the record; put a capo on the 1st fret to play it as written.
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10. Silver Blue
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Studio: begun in Stockholm in 1987–88 and finished in 1992. In E♭; the chord sheet plays the chords without a capo.
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11. Here Comes the Weekend
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Recorded in room 603 of the Alvear Palace Hotel, Buenos Aires, 4 May 1992. At concert pitch.
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12. So Far Away
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Recorded in the same Buenos Aires hotel room. It is a semitone lower than the 1986 studio version on Pearls of Passion, so chords for the original need to come down a half step.
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13. Come Back (Before You Leave)
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Studio, Stockholm, 1990: a recording from the Joyride period.
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14. Things Will Never Be the Same
Different pitch
E Standard −12 ¢Measured
Notes
Live, Hallenstadion, Zürich, November 1991. About 12 cents flat on both the CD and the LP (A ≈ 437), the one Tourism track clearly under concert pitch. In D, the key of the chord sheets; the Joyride studio version is in B♭.
Measured on its own, about 17 cents under the rest of Tourism on both the CD and the 2LP.
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15. Joyride
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Live, Sydney, 13 December 1991. In A, like the studio version, at about the album's pitch.
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16. Queen of Rain
E Standard +5 ¢Measured
Notes
Studio, Stockholm, 1990. In B minor.
What the labels mean
- Measured
- TuneLit measured the pitch on an original CD or LP. The tuning name still comes from the sources.
- Official
- The band, a member, their producer or their guitar tech said it.
- Widely reported
- Trusted outlets, guides and tabs agree, but the band did not say it directly.
- Community
- From community tabs, or from players who tune along with the record.
- Disputed
- Sources disagree. The likeliest setting is shown; the notes name the other one.
Each song shows one label, the strongest it has, in this order. How we measure recordings →
Questions
What tuning is Tourism in?
Roxette recorded Tourism (1992) in E Standard, about 5 cents sharp (A ≈ 441), measured by TuneLit on the CD and the LP. The Rain uses E Standard; Things Will Never Be the Same uses E Standard −12 ¢.
Why does Tourism sound out of tune with my guitar?
Things Will Never Be the Same sits about 12 cents flat (A ≈ 437), so a guitar tuned to A 440 clashes with it. The Tune buttons on this page set the tuner's reference to match the record, so you only tune the strings.