Sepultura · Arise · song 2
Dead Embryonic Cells tuning.
Dead Embryonic Cells (Sepultura, 1991) is in E 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.
Sepultura · Arise · 1991
About Dead Embryonic Cells
The second track of Arise (1991), a fast thrash song from Sepultura's last album in standard tuning. It is plain E Standard, as the main tab and every song on the album have it, and Max Cavalera has said nothing before Chaos A.D. was tuned down. Max and Andreas Kisser play the guitars.
TuneLit measured the Japanese CD about 2 ¢ sharp, and this song about 2 ¢ sharp too, which counts as concert pitch, so Tune opens E Standard at A 440 with no offset. Arise is one of the steadiest records in the catalog, every song within 4 ¢ of the album value, and the semitone check from the audio confirms the low E.
D Standard tabs of Arise songs exist, several of them following live versions from after 1993, when the band tuned down a whole step and kept playing the older songs that way. Against the studio record a D Standard guitar is a whole step off, so stay in E.
Tip: Tune to plain E Standard at A 440 and check your open low E against the record; if a tab's riffs only fit a whole step lower, it was written from a later live version.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, the notes Dead Embryonic Cells was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Dead Embryonic Cells sits at concert pitch on the record, so the tuner stays at A 440.
- Then play Dead Embryonic Cells 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 Dead Embryonic Cells 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. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Dead Embryonic Cells moves down 2 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 Dead Embryonic Cells in?
E Standard: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.