The Offspring · Americana · song 4
Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) tuning.
Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) (The Offspring, 1998) is in E Standard, about 6 cents sharp (A ≈ 442), measured by TuneLit from the record.
Measured by TuneLit
6 ¢ sharp
The album's value, measured on the CD: Tune moves every string +6 ¢.
The Offspring · Americana · 1998
About Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)
Pretty Fly (for a White Guy), from Americana (1998), is plain E Standard in the community tabs, and TuneLit's audio check hears the open low E on the record, so the tuning is not in doubt. Americana's only exception is its title track, in Drop D.
TuneLit measured the Americana CD about 6 cents sharp (A ≈ 441.6), and Tune sets that offset. Pretty Fly itself reads about 3 cents sharp, a little under the album value. The gap is too small to get its own setting, and the album's +6 ¢ keeps you within about 3 cents of the record.
That also means plain A 440 works unusually well here: it is only about 3 cents under this song, closer than for most of Americana. Either way, the bigger risk is a String 6 still sitting on D after the title track, so check it before you start. If you keep playing to the end of the CD, Pay the Man finishes with a hidden reprise of Pretty Fly in the same tuning.
Tip: Plain A 440 is only about 3 cents off this song, so if you skip Tune, at least make sure String 6 is on E and not left in Drop D from Americana.
Step by step
Tune your guitar like the record
- Tap Tune like this: the tuner switches to E Standard, every string +6 ¢, the notes Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) was recorded in.
- Turn String 6 to String 1 until each shows ✓ in tune. Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) sits 6 cents sharp on the record: at A 440 your guitar would sound that much flat against it, which Tune already corrects.
- Then play Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) 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 Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) 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 +6 ¢. Choose E Standard at A 440 and Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) moves down 6 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 Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) in?
E Standard +6 ¢: E A D G B E, low to high, at the pitch TuneLit measured on the record.