Stevie Ray Vaughan · In Step · song 10
Riviera Paradise tuning.
Riviera Paradise (Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1989) 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.
Stevie Ray Vaughan · In Step · 1989
About Riviera Paradise
The slow, jazz-tinged instrumental that closes In Step, a long improvisation for guitar and piano, played on the same guitar Vaughan used for Lenny. It is in standard chord shapes on a guitar tuned a half step down, E♭ A♭ D♭ G♭ B♭ E♭, with the open low string under the chords.
This is the steadiest reading TuneLit took on any Vaughan song: about 1 ¢ sharp with very high confidence, on an album that sits at concert pitch. The Tune button opens E♭ Standard at A 440, and TuneLit's audio check confirms E♭ as the lowest open string.
With a clean tone and long, ringing chords, every small tuning error is exposed, especially between the low strings and the piano. Tune slowly, then check a full chord against the record's opening rather than single notes. The chord voicings stretch across the neck, so a guitar whose intonation is off will sound fine on open strings and sour higher up; check the twelfth-fret harmonic against the fretted note on each string before you settle in.
Tip: Tune down, then hold the opening chord against the record and listen for beating before you play along.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E♭ Standard, the notes Riviera Paradise was recorded in.
- From E Standard: Every string down a half step. No tuner that knows E♭ Standard? Clamp a capo across fret 1, tune to E Standard as usual, then take it off: every string drops to E♭ Standard. Check each string again afterwards, since a capo pulls the strings a little sharp.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Riviera Paradise sits at concert pitch on the record, so the tuner stays at A 440.
- Then play Riviera Paradise 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 Riviera Paradise 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 Riviera Paradise moves up 98 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 Riviera Paradise in?
E♭ Standard: E♭ A♭ D♭ G♭ B♭ E♭, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.